Margaret Thatcher is dead.
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She came up with the idea of injecting nitrogen into cheap ice cream to make it cheaper yet appear to be quality.
Kinda like her politics.
Kinda like her politics.
You're on the right track. As a team they did all sorts of things on their own.
DQ? Great place to work instead of industry or commerce.
DQ? Great place to work instead of industry or commerce.
The economy was in a shambles when she came to power in 1979. The lefty Labour Party, as usual, under James "Sunny Jim" Callaghan had bankrupt the economy. The Left had hijacked the trades unions and forced millions of workers to strike, even if they didn't want to. As a result we had the Winter of Discontent of 1978/79, when binmen strikes caused rubbish to pile up in streets. Even undertakers went on strike, causing corpses to go unburied. Britain was a Left-Wing state run as though it was an Eastern European country. We were in terminal decline, and we had to go begging to the IMF for money.
So it was no surprise that the Left were kicked out of office in 1979 and Thatcher's Conservatives came to power. It was Thatcher who halted Britain's decline, which it had suffered since the end of WWI, stopped the trades unions being hijacked by left-wingers like Scargill, and got rid of old-fashioned industries, such as coalmining, which were not helping the economy in any way.
By the time Thatcher resigned on 28th November 1990, Britain had gone from a broke, Lefty state, which was not taken seriously on the world stage, to a wealthy country with annual economic growth of around 5%, which was taken very seriously on the world stage and which had cemented itself as America's greatest ally.
And on top of all that, Maggie kicked the Argies out of the Falklands and, alongside Reagan, helped to end the Cold War.
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Wow! All the economoies Globally? That's pretty damn good. He really f*cked up Canada and the US but good.
Thatcher's main downfall was the poll tax. The tax was so unpopular that in 1990 the country suffered severe riots. Even to this day, 23 years later, there is grafitti in white paint on a stone railway bridge in the centre of my town near a supermarket which reads something like "NO POLL TAX! 1990".
I was only a kid in 1989/90 but I remember my mother telling me that my father may go to jail because of his refusal to pay the poll tax.
On 1 November 1990 the Europhile Geoffrey Howe, the last remaining member of Thatcher's original 1979 cabinet, resigned from his position as Deputy Prime Minister over her refusal to agree to a timetable for Britain to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (the forerunner of the now discredited Euro so, on this issue, Thatcher was right, Howe was wrong). In his resignation speech on 13 November 1990, Howe commented on Thatcher's European stance: "It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find the moment that the first balls are bowled that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain." His resignation was fatal to Thatcher's premiership.
The next day, Michael Heseltine mounted a challenge for the leadership of the Conservative Party (and therefore become PM). Opinion polls had indicated that he would give the Conservatives a national lead over Labour. Although Thatcher won the first ballot, Heseltine attracted sufficient support (152 votes) to force a second ballot.Thatcher initially stated that she intended to "fight on and fight to win" the second ballot, but consultation with her Cabinet persuaded her to withdraw. After seeing the Queen, calling other world leaders, and making one final Commons speech, she left Downing Street in tears. She regarded her ousting as a betrayal.
Thatcher was replaced as Prime Minister and party leader by her Chancellor John Major, who oversaw an upturn in Conservative support in the 17 months leading up to the 1992 General Election and led the Conservatives to their fourth successive victory on 9 April 1992 - almost 21 years to the day before Thatcher's death.
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No. The Labour Party, the unions, Arthur Scargill and the hard left which ran the then Communist Britain in the Seventies bankrupted Britain's economy.
Are you sure it wasn't Colonialism's death and the end cheap raw goods that tanked the UK?
No. It was the Left of the 1970s, such as the Labour Party and undemocratic militant unionists like Arthur Scargill, that saw Britain's decline.
Thatcher ended it.
Thatcher died of a massive stroke at around 11am UK time in the famous five-star Ritz hotel in Piccadilly in central London, where she had been staying for a while.
The Queen has given her permission for Thatcher to be given a ceremonial funeral just like Princess Diana and the Queen Mother were given in 1997 and 2002. She will be given military honours and the funeral is to take place at St Paul's Cathedral. It will no doubt be televised.
There were those who wanted her to be given a state funeral like Churchill in 1965. But there were probably people who were worried that the militant Left would kick off again had she been given one.
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You're supposed to say nice things about people when they die.. but she sure was a lousy, incompetent Prime Minister... a real first class Bitch as well.
The Britain she left behind is a stronger country now then what is was when she took over the reigns of government. I admired Margaret for her tough stands on unions and the economy. She knew Britain was failing and took the necessary steps to ensure her country's economic success. Job well done. RIP Margaret.
I liked her too, jeesh, someone has to lead, and she did it well, I don't want the job, I have
much more important things to do, don't have time for that bit of trivia, the leaders can lead,
(or whatever it is they do), and I will make my days constructive and long, much less stress, and
keep one eye on them once in a while.
As long as we all have the democracy, and don't slide into the iranian style of government, I will
be OK with whomever decides to give it a go.
R I P margaret, she lived to 87, same as my mom, (born in london, eng.)and died from the same cause.
you're in good company margaret.
