I just heard on C.B.C. radio that Margaret Thatcher has succumbed at age 87. What will her legacy be? Tough old broad for sure...........didn't take any crap.
Margaret Thatcher is dead.
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Yep.. Brought the unions under her heel and got their economy going.
Britain (or any other nation) could use someone like her today
Just heard on the news that she got booted out in 1990 because the ecomony was in a shambles! Yet you endorse Thatcher and condemn Obama!
Yeah, I kind of liked the old broad.
That's what happens when you spread yourself too thin around the globe.
The UK tanked under Thatcher.
She didn't do jacksh*t in the way of benefitting anything.
The UK tanked under Thatcher.
She didn't do jacksh*t in the way of benefitting anything.
"When Thatcher took office in 1979, Britain’s trade unions were strong enough to knock out party leaders they opposed, and key industries, including utilities, were state-owned. By the time she stepped down 11 years later, her arguments for free- market economics, lower taxes and deregulated financial markets had been adopted across the nation’s political spectrum.
The transition was painful. Unemployment peaked at more than 3 million in the mid-1980s, and many places in the north of the country that had been world centers of manufacturing struggled to adapt to the new service economy.
“She was, quite simply, one of the most influential political leaders that the U.K., indeed the world, has ever produced,” said Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London and author of “The Conservative Party From Thatcher To Cameron” (2010).
Thatcher was defined by the battles she took on: she waged war against Argentina, clashed with striking miners and forced fellow leaders to cut Britain’s financial contributions to the forerunner of the European Union."
Looks to me she did quite a bit, Petros!
What's the big deal about food stamps? As far as I know they are just a means of preventing people from abusing welfare.
**** her, diabolical old bastard. I'd go piss on her grave; Raygun's too, if they were closer.
Rot in hell.
Rot in hell.
The Iron Lady has passed. She will hold her place in history and be remembered by those who loved and hated her.
Keeping in mind Thumper's advice, "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothin' at all, " the following are my comments on her passing: