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Madrid’s city council to vote naming a street after Margaret Thatcher
Madrid's conservative-run city council said on Friday it wants to name a street in the Spanish capital after former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose legacy has proved as polarising in death as she was in life. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesoh! dio these gallegos are living with their calendar 30 years back.
Apr 13th, 2013 - 08:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hello taxi driver can you take me to Margaret Thatcher street just when crossing Leopoldo Galtieri avenue please?
Ah! can you bring me back later to Bind Laden Square please?
I forgot a box with a clock (tic, tac) in Sadam's Husein building.
Thank you
DanyBerger ,Though you could easily get away with Nazi Avenue or twat Street in down town B.A.
Apr 13th, 2013 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh Dear,
Apr 13th, 2013 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0This IS going to annoy some people.
Take shelter, Flak time!
Aren't politics twisted?
“DanyBerger ,Though you could easily get away with Nazi Avenue or twat Street in down town B.A.”
Apr 13th, 2013 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is that next to “Nuns fall like Buns” Square?
and
“Our Priest support Torture” plaza
and “Thatcher started the Falklands War” Street?
“Cristina saved our Economy” Drive?
and
“Implanted Squatters Palace” (suitably placed in Patagonia)
@1 Funny girl. The current Spanish “government” is, of course, both populist and fascist. It engages in mindless rhetoric. It does not believe in democracy. Compare the UK response to Scotland and Spain's response to Catalonia. It engages in state terrorism, e.g. it engages in illegal state incursions into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters. It likes to “claim” that Gibraltar has no territorial waters because they aren't mentioned in the Treaty of Utrecht. However, that Treaty doesn't mention Spanish territorial waters!
Apr 13th, 2013 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guess what. Present-day Spain sounds just like argieland. And, before long, it will probably be just as broke. Come the day, I think I'm going to buy Tarifa. All of it. At the right moment, I don't suppose the whole 620 square kilometres will cost me more than £10! Although all I really want is the beach.
Well I always think that it is never too late to start some improvements. Having one of their streets named after a British Prime Minister can only do them some good.
Apr 13th, 2013 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They need something to inspire them in Spain, their elephant shooting king is clearly not a figure to respect.
I suspect that the only place that would matter to Baroness Thatcher would be Thatcher Drive on the Falklands.
Apr 13th, 2013 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And quite rightly.
Well why not, I for one think thats great :) big smiles
Apr 13th, 2013 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Spain, tut tut its so backwards politically. Free Catalonia
How about “'Pope's Flyover ”in BA,
Apr 14th, 2013 - 04:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0or a one way street - “CFK Way”
Or on Montevideo, “Mujica Circle” or “Mujica Roundabout”??
@1 DanyBerger
Apr 15th, 2013 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mrs Thatcher was no terrorist, nor dictator. She had a mandate via the British electoral system which delivered her party into power with Mrs T at the helm, unlike the heathen scumbags you care to mention. She freed the Falklanders from the prospect of being disappeared like many of your countrymen and in fact through cause and effect, freed you of that possibility too. She believed in Britain, believed in democracy (the unions were wholly undemocratic and union shop stewards seemingly welded greater powers over the country than an elected government) and stuck to her core principals... many in our country loved her and many loathed her (so don't think for one moment they loathe her because of your defeat).. ya can't win'em all. One thing is for sure, when british citzens were under threat.. Margaret behaved with great resolve and dispatched your military Junta to where it belonged... on the compost heap. Margaret Plaza would be great, Thatcher Boulevard would be really nice, but ensure it is no where near the Galtieri Municipal Rubbish Dump or Military Junta Sewage.
Dany Berger : This does take me back 30 years ago ....
Apr 15th, 2013 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ Hello taxi driver can you take me to Margaret Thatcher street just when crossing Leopoldo Galtieri avenue please ? ”
There used to be a column in the Herald called “ Ramon Writes ” and it about an Argentine who was very proud of his unintelligible , literally translated , english . Thanks for the memories !
How were you ever understood in your grocery store in Brixton , you know, the one that you “ managed ” ?
Good for Madrid!! They would not do this if there was not good diplomatic relations with Great Britain and admiration for this great lady!!
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