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True she served the ruling elite well...im sure they will miss herBut im not one of them so
Breaking News: Margaret Thatcher Famed UK Prime Minister Dead A 87
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True she served the ruling elite well...im sure they will miss herBut im not one of them so
These left wingers hate Margaret Thatcher because she exposed socialism as the inherent failure that it is. When she became prime minister Britain was going broke and experiencing stagflation. She pretty much came in and began privatizing alot of industries and cutting taxes and reallly help turned their economy around. One of the best things she did that no one talks about is working to keep the British pound as their currency. Otherwise they might have ended up like Greece and the other socialist basket cases in Europe.
Oh, and there is that whole thing about helping to bring down communism in Europe.
How Margaret Thatcher turned around Great Britain, in one chart | AEIdeas
This chart does a goob job explaining how Thatcher helped turn around Britain and uses socialist France as an example of the alternative.
This chart does a goob job explaining how Thatcher helped turn around Britain and uses socialist France as an example of the alternative.
She eviscerated the working class, destroyed the UK's hope of a truly equal-opportunity economy, ignored actual democratic participation in favor of unilateralism and supported military dictators like Pinochet while calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist.
She also wasn't responsible for the economic changes (not that I'm arguing the changes were necessarily all good.) She was more of a figurehead who showed up at the right time and accelerated certain tendencies.
The fact that the uneducated Obama supporters on this board are directing so much anger towards towards her shows what a magnificent lady Margaret Thatcher truly was.
RIP Iron lady.........you will never be forgotten.
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IrishBrother
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Tiocfaidh ar La - Our day will come.
As faith should have it- I was in west Belfast due to work. It was a strange one. When youwork outside of Dublin, we normally go out to a fancy restaurant, then a few beers. Charge expenses.
But tonight we went to the local watering holes. The youth were running amok and singjng songs, partying. Whilst the people that lived through thatchers anti hunger striker, anti ireland period - said they would light a candle for her. Not celebrating, not upset.
Today was actually the anniversary of Bobby Sands election to Westminister too. Funny ould world.
IrishBrother
Bubblin' in Dublin
Tiocfaidh ar La - Our day will come.
As faith should have it- I was in west Belfast due to work. It was a strange one. When you work outside of Dublin, we normally go out to a fancy restaurant, then a few beers. Charge expenses.
But tonight we went to the local watering holes. The youth were running amok and singing songs, partying. Whilst the people that lived through thatchers anti hunger striker, anti ireland period - said they would light a candle for her. Not celebrating, not upset.
Today was actually the anniversary of Bobby Sands election to Westminister too. Funny ould world.
Dead End
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lol there's parties in brixton and other cities.
anything in Trafalgar Square?
anything in Trafalgar Square?
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Thatcher, Liberator « The Dish
To put it bluntly: The Britain I grew up in was insane. The government owned almost all major manufacturing, from coal to steel to automobiles. Owned. It employed almost every doctor and owned almost every hospital. Almost every university and elementary and high school was government-run. And in the 1970s, you could not help but realize as a young Brit, that you were living in a decaying museum – some horrifying mixture of Eastern European grimness surrounded by the sculptured bric-a-brac of statues and buildings and edifices that spoke of an empire on which the sun had once never set. Now, in contrast, we lived on the dark side of the moon and it was made up of damp, slowly degrading concrete. …
She was, in that sense, a liberator. She didn’t constantly (or even ever) argue for women’s equality; she just lived it. She didn’t just usher in greater economic freedom; she unwittingly brought with it cultural transformation – because there is nothing more culturally disruptive than individualism and capitalism. Her 1940s values never re-took: the Brits engaged in spending and borrowing binges long after she had left the scene, and what last vestiges of prudery were left in the dust.
Perhaps in future years, her legacy might be better seen as a last, sane defense of the nation-state as the least worst political unit in human civilization. Her deep suspicion of the European project was rooted in memories of the Blitz, but it was also prescient and wise. Without her, it is doubtful the British would have kept their currency and their independence. They would have German financiers going over the budget in Whitehall by now, as they are in Greece and Portugal and Cyprus. She did not therefore only resuscitate economic freedom in Britain, she kept Britain itself free as an independent nation. Neither achievement was inevitable; in fact, each was a function of a single woman’s will-power. To have achieved both makes her easily the greatest 20th century prime minister after Churchill.
He saved Britain from darkness; she finally saw the lights come back on. And like Churchill, it’s hard to imagine any other figure quite having the character, the will-power and the grit to have pulled it off.
To put it bluntly: The Britain I grew up in was insane. The government owned almost all major manufacturing, from coal to steel to automobiles. Owned. It employed almost every doctor and owned almost every hospital. Almost every university and elementary and high school was government-run. And in the 1970s, you could not help but realize as a young Brit, that you were living in a decaying museum – some horrifying mixture of Eastern European grimness surrounded by the sculptured bric-a-brac of statues and buildings and edifices that spoke of an empire on which the sun had once never set. Now, in contrast, we lived on the dark side of the moon and it was made up of damp, slowly degrading concrete. …
She was, in that sense, a liberator. She didn’t constantly (or even ever) argue for women’s equality; she just lived it. She didn’t just usher in greater economic freedom; she unwittingly brought with it cultural transformation – because there is nothing more culturally disruptive than individualism and capitalism. Her 1940s values never re-took: the Brits engaged in spending and borrowing binges long after she had left the scene, and what last vestiges of prudery were left in the dust.
Perhaps in future years, her legacy might be better seen as a last, sane defense of the nation-state as the least worst political unit in human civilization. Her deep suspicion of the European project was rooted in memories of the Blitz, but it was also prescient and wise. Without her, it is doubtful the British would have kept their currency and their independence. They would have German financiers going over the budget in Whitehall by now, as they are in Greece and Portugal and Cyprus. She did not therefore only resuscitate economic freedom in Britain, she kept Britain itself free as an independent nation. Neither achievement was inevitable; in fact, each was a function of a single woman’s will-power. To have achieved both makes her easily the greatest 20th century prime minister after Churchill.
He saved Britain from darkness; she finally saw the lights come back on. And like Churchill, it’s hard to imagine any other figure quite having the character, the will-power and the grit to have pulled it off.
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