You can restrict the size of a firm in a competitive market quite easily.

Thank you for your admission that "a competitive market" reduces choice.

Not only was she the friend of Pinochet she supported the Khmer Rouge.

You can always judge a person by the company they keep.

ANC boycotting the funeral

And this is from Dali Tambo, son of former ANC president Oliver Tambo.

My gut reaction now is what it was at the time when she said my father was the leader of a terrorist organisation. I don't think she ever got it that every day she opposed sanctions, more people were dying, and that the best thing for the assets she wanted to protect was democracy.

Many lives were lost. It's a shame that we could never call her one of the champions of the liberation struggle. Normally we say that when one of us goes, the ANC ancestors will meet them at the pearly gates and give them a standing ovation. I think it's quite likely that when Margaret Thatcher reaches the pearly gates, the ANC will boycott the occasion.

Ken Livingstone

She created today's housing crisis. She created the banking crisis. And she created the benefits crisis. It was her government that started putting people on incapacity benefit rather than register them as unemployed because the Britain she inherited was broadly full employment. She decided when she wrote off our manufacturing industry that she could live with two or three million unemployed, and the benefits bill, the legacy of that, we are struggling with today. In actual fact, every real problem we face today is the legacy of the fact that she was fundamentally wrong.

George Galloway @georgegalloway

Thatcher described Nelson Mandela as a "terrorist". I was there. I saw her lips move. May she burn in the hellfires.

Good points, nail on the head.

we do know the circumstances, he/she just told us. why is my comment crass? i'm just wondering if conditions were so crap, i know i wouldn't have let my grandparent stay there. i'd have carried them to my house.

Didn't I write just that last night? Ken is a plagiarist!

He did sell his soul to become mayor so anything is possible.

and then done what? Magicked some high quality palliative care out of thin air?

His pals were much nicer than Maggie.

And then what?

Would you have personally operated on them too?

Just heard that 2 coal mines that supply the furnaces of Hell have been closed already.

he would have taken the 7 years training to become a doctor, spent decades getting the necessary surgical experience, spent hundreds of thousands on kitting out an operating theatre, the thousands to pay for the necessary support staff (theatre nurses, anaesthatists etc), paid out the thousands for surgical equipment, paid out the thousands drugs it would be illegal for him to posses and illegal for him to prescribe to a family member, and performed the surgery, aftercare, and palliative care. And he would have done this in a matter of weeks whilst holding down a job to pay for it all.

Strivers versus skivers innit.