Margaret Thatcher.

[polyphemus]

Every government hopes they lose an election from time to time. That way the other side have to do the really nasty difficult things once elected, get blamed, lose the next election and the first lot are back in but of course they never reverse those nasty difficult things.
Cynic, you bet.

Geoff

 

[housecarl]

Yet for all the "horrors" she's supposed to have caused with her policies not one has ever been reversed or cancelled even by those who use her to blame for everything..... odd thing huh

Steve

Like I just said in that PM, blue suits you.
Carl.

 

[Helm]

Better than pink for sure

 

[Martin64]

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end." I think that this quote pretty much envelopes the personality of the "iron lady".While it is interesting and somewhat amusing to learn about mostly British views on their former Prime Minister I wonder if it is wise to discuss this on a forum with a focus on modelling. Therefore I will stay away from adding the viewpoint of a foreigner. She is now a person that has written history and possibly there is a day when her bust will be released as a companion to Mr. Churchill.
Cheers, Martin

 

[Richie]

Now if a Monkey put himself forward, Hartlepool take note, then yes he could get my protest vote.

 

[Richie]

Well he started as this and ended up mayor. I don't know who the hanger on is with H'angus by the way

 

[stu]

Great lady who did what she said she would and wasnt bothered about being popular just for the sake of it. There again she won 3 elections so must have done something right.

I can understand people not liking her but she deserves respect in death just as we all should.

Stuart

 

[Waterman]

So on that basis I suppose we have to respect all people in death. No snidey remarks about Trotsky, Lenin, Hitler, Napoleon,Fred West, Jimmy Saville, Henry the VIII, etc etc, because they are now dead, and no matter what they done or how they affected people's lives, only accolades can be presented because they are now dead. Interesting view that, but not one I would go along with.

 

[Gellso]

She gave Scotland the Poll Tax a year before the English, Made all the traders in the South richer and stole everything from the working class, She Privatised the whole of the UK industry, killed the NHS with private funded initiatives, doubled the rate of inflation, rose VAT from 8% to 15%, increased unemployment to 1.4 million to to 3.5 million and also killed the industry in the North, whilst the South financially boomed.

She made Britain better....for a select few........none of them Scots!

Above all, not only was she bad for the country during her premiership, she continues to be bad for the country today. The causes of the present slump - unrestricted credit, deregulation and too much financial speculation - all date back to the 1980s. No successive government dared reverse these decisions: a blessing to her legacy, but a curse we must now all share.

I for one will not shed any tears of regret at her passing.

 

[MCPWilk]

Apparently we lived in some kind of Eden in the 70's. There were no strikes, everyone did a fair day's work for a fair day's pay, there was plenty of coal and we didn't have power cuts nor three day weeks, the miners didn't bring down Heath's government nor the winter of discontent Callaghan's.........

 

[Rich Sculpts]

The Iron Lady - Rust in Peace...

 

[Richard61]

I remember what the country was like before 1979 and it wasn't good!
Maggie had more balls than the rest of the so called "Men" in government at the time and ever since. She was the right leader for the time but outstayed her welcome and somewhat lost the plot in the end.
Yes, she had to go but even then no-one had enough spine to stand and face her, the cowards had to knife her in the back. Since she left office we havn't had a Prime Minister of any party worthy of the position.
Just my personal view. (and not from the South of England either)

Richard.

 

[Paul Kernan]

Hey Pete

Is this what you want I was in the Argentinian section of BMO Field in Toronto for the under-19 World Cup in 2007.

 

[badger]

she was like a rotweiler with pmt, but i am sure she wasnt all bad./badger

 

[housecarl]

 

[MCPWilk]

Wilson closed 211 pits in 1965 -70, Maggie closed 154 between 1979 and 1990. Interesting breakdown of the figures: https://www.quora.com/Were-more-mines-closed-under-labour-than-under-Thatcher

Nothing is as simple or as straightforward as it seems!

Mike

 

[Helm]

 

[fogie]

If I remember rightly, there was something of a division in the nation when, after her death was announced, a wag
posted on You Tube that song from The Wizard of Oz - 'Ding-Dong the witch is dead !' Some were indignant and
disbelieving that it went viral in about 30 seconds.

Mike

 

[peedee]

A radio phone in on Meseyside was solicting a response to the question "should she get a state funeral"
They wouldn't allow me to say why wait.
still friend of mine made sure she went in face down so she couldn't get out again.

 

[fogie]

I can't believe you and I are wasting good painting time by talking about the old you-know-what all
these years after her death !