I've found most of her admirers over here have never actually lived in Britain whilst she was in power.
I resent her for breaking the unions, and even worse, especially as hubby was on an oil rig, cutting back on what she considered needless expenditure on safety standards on oil rigs. It got so bad even the Amurricans wouldn' work on Brit. rigs thinking them death traps and primitive.
Piper Alpha anyone.........
...miners strike..Falklands fiasco..etc..grew up in the eighties in the shadow of the tory party, would happily bang in the nails
merry christmas to you all, oops sorry i meant er merry, no happy holidays..crumbs what are you supposed to say.. "sorry its a christian religious festival and i'm wishing you a pleasant two weeks in whatever style of seasonal celebration you wish to indulge" ???
crap, its Christmas, have a good time.
...miners strike..Falklands fiasco..etc..grew up in the eighties in the shadow of the tory party, would happily bang in the nails
I thought we did rather well in the Falklands. :?:
Apparently she's been watching alot of Monty Python -
http//www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/09/051210030244.lpbfxvhd.html
[Thatcher's daughter], Carol said "The memory loss is very strange because her recollection of distant events is still sharp. A friend commented to her the other week 'Oh, Margaret, it's like rationing!' Immediately, my mother sparkled and this fellow got 15 minutes on wartime privations, including all mum's favourite recipes for Spam."
I have very mixed feelings about Margaret Thatcher. I did live in Britain in the 1980s and did not enjoy it one bit. Her "..there is no such thing as society..." comments I found especially shocking. But in retrospect it seems some (but certainly not all) of her policies were like awful tasting medicine that had to be taken. Like others here I also remember three day weeks, power cuts, strikes every five minutes etc.
Some of her legacy is the most successful economy in Europe.
And whatever else you can say about her, she was a conviction politician who more often than not said what she was going to do and then did it, quite unlike the usual breed of fibbing, slimy, cowardly, sychophantic toadies. I think whatever your political opinions, to wish her dead is a bit extreme.
Quite interested to read about the other Thatcher. I used to listen to her on 'Loose Ends' in the 1980s and despite her "jolly hockey sticks" demeanour thought she was a good journalist who took jibes about her mother with good grace.
http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4513472.stm
I thought we did rather well in the Falklands. :?:
It never needed happen. We knew for ages in advance that the Argies were sabre rattling.
But it was election year so we needed a war apparently, we did nothing until they invaded. If we had sent a task force down there 6 months prior, then Simon Weston would still have a face.
But it was election year so we needed a war apparently, we did nothing until they invaded. If we had sent a task force down there 6 months prior, then Simon Weston would still have a face.
But if we were "pre-emptive", what sort of criticism then? And would the Argentinian retaliation have been worse? Maybe more people would be faceless or dead......
The same thing happened at the end of the 70's. we had intelligence that the Argies were preparing, we whacked down there a large force, and they backed down without so much as a shot fired.