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Left-wing mayor of Madrid plans to rename Plaza currently dedicated to Margaret Thatcher [...]
UK Daily Mail ^ | 3 July 2015 | Chris Pleasance

Posted on 07/03/2015 3:49:01 AM PDT by Moltke

FULL TITLE: Left-wing mayor of Madrid plans to rename Plaza currently dedicated to Margaret Thatcher after Socialist gay rights activist

Spain's Left-wing Mayor has said she is planning to rename a Plaza currently dedicated to Margaret Thatcher after a former Socialist Party leader and gay rights activist.

Manuela Carmena, who took over from Madrid's former conservative mayor in May, said Thatcher's name was inappropriate because she was 'the Iron Lady who enslaved the workers'.

Her announcement comes just ten months after Mark Thatcher was invited to the Spanish capital to name the plaza after his mother and the former British Prime Minister.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; europeanunion; france; germany; globalwarminghoax; homosexualagenda; libertarians; madrid; manuelacarmena; margaretthatcher; medicalmarijuana; nato; obamacare; obamanation; popefrancis; romancatholicism; spain; unitedkingdom; zerocare
Franco: "Miss me yet?"
1 posted on 07/03/2015 3:49:01 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: Moltke

Communists worship sodomy (until they have no use for them).


2 posted on 07/03/2015 3:51:29 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Moltke

I’d think they would have avoided naming anything after her until they got Gibraltar back...

BTW, wasn’t Mark Thatcher the one arrested in Africa trying to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in a coup?


3 posted on 07/03/2015 3:52:39 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Moltke

Spain down the drain.


4 posted on 07/03/2015 3:58:47 AM PDT by docbnj
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To: Moltke

Like the Scripture says .... Satan, walkin’ to and fro upon the face of the earth ....


5 posted on 07/03/2015 4:00:32 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Moltke

You cannot live with liberals. They must be exterminated like other vermin.


6 posted on 07/03/2015 4:01:24 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: Moltke
Spain is still a young democracy and in their recent elections did suffer a bit of a "lurch to the left."

In more substantive matters, however, I have confidence in the good sense of the Spanish. Great economic improvements were evident recently compared to my visit just three years ago. Nobody wants to blow it.

7 posted on 07/03/2015 4:05:15 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Moltke
...said Thatcher's name was inappropriate because she was 'the Iron Lady who enslaved the workers'.

Someone needs to loan him a dictionary to look up the word slave...

8 posted on 07/03/2015 4:19:23 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: billorites

Wife and I have been to Spain twice - 2011 and 2012. Loved it both times. Peaceful both times. In 2012, witnessed small marches (can’t even call them demonstrations) mostly around education.

Students wanted tuition money in Burgos. Barcelona had a Catalonia independence gathering; some shouting there. Teachers in Madrid marched on the Gran Via for pay raises; that was the largest march. It was over in two hours.

The Spanish take great pride in their country, its heritage and its history. They’ll come through this just fine.


9 posted on 07/03/2015 4:56:16 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Moltke

I suspect part of this is due to the anti British sentiment among the Spanish people - at least in part. Madrid is in sorry shape with the socialist mayor


10 posted on 07/03/2015 5:07:39 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: NTHockey

I just returned from two months hiking through northern Spain. Very impressed by the Spanish work ethic. Also the kindness and thoughtfulness they showed to strangers.


11 posted on 07/03/2015 6:34:35 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Manuela Carmena, who took over from Madrid's former conservative mayor in May, said Thatcher's name was inappropriate because she was 'the Iron Lady who enslaved the workers'.
That's that higher edge-a-ma-cation kickin' in.
12 posted on 07/03/2015 8:00:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That’s Putin’s pattern.


13 posted on 07/03/2015 8:03:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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