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Baroness Thatcher dies, age 87 [W:113]

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We had to survive her actions.
 
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Just want to note here that when Thatcher came to office the ERA amendment was looking to be dead in the water (it timed out in 82). Seeing a woman in power, for a large nation close to us here in the US, was a welcome bit of news beside the bads news of the ERA amendment's wane.
 
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Andalublue said:
What would you know about it, testudine?
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I doubt you were married to Dame Thatcher. Hence you did not live with her
 
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Graffias said:
She was so overrated, just like her buddy Ronnie Raygun, and her legacy has been so inflated by neo-con-capitalists that it would be laughable if the damage she (and Raygun) did to the working class wasn't so severe and ever-lasting. She was the kind of matriarchal headmistress type who threw her own country over to the speculators as well as helping to turn it into a cheap labor colony. She's a prime example of why women shouldn't be in politics.
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she is woman ,she cant govern ..

but people still mention her
 
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TurtleDude said:
I doubt you were married to Dame Thatcher. Hence you did not live with her
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Your grasp of the English language is not great. I lived with her as PM. I lived with her controlling the government which ****ed up our country. I lived with her mismanagement. Yes, I lived with her. I notice that all but one of the posters here who lived with her also feel less than sorry at her demise, and all but one of her defenders never seems to have had any direct experience. Telling.
 
Higgins86 said:
No andy had to live under her politics which is clearly what he meant
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Yup, and the majority of his fellows who were in the same boat loved her for it. They kept on voting for her. His was obviously the distaff position then, as it often is now.
 
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Andalublue said:
Your grasp of the English language is not great. I lived with her as PM. I lived with her controlling the government which ****ed up our country. I lived with her mismanagement. Yes, I lived with her. I notice that all but one of the posters here who lived with her also feel less than sorry at her demise, and all but one of her defenders never seems to have had any direct experience. Telling.
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Have you ever figured out that when far lefties hate a politician that is an endorsement of her merit to those who are not on the left? she stood with our country against the communist scum so that gives me standing to praise her. Just as you have complained about our leaders who aren't socialists
 
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Manc Skipper said:
The man from the "Independent" (centre right paper) sums it up very well in his assessment of "Thatcherism" rather than the lady herself.

" ...We are in the midst of the third great economic collapse since the Second World War: all three have taken place since Thatcherism launched its great crusade. This current crisis has roots in the Thatcherite free market experiment, which wiped out much of the country’s industrial base in favour of a deregulated financial sector.

A poisoned “debate” about social security rages in Cameron’s Britain. It focuses on the idea that there are large numbers of people stuck on benefits. It is certainly true that there were more people languishing in long-term unemployment last year than there were in all forms of unemployment 40 years ago. In large part, this is a consequence of Thatcherism’s emptying communities of millions of secure, skilled industrial jobs. Large swathes of Britain – mining villages, steel towns and so on – were devastated, and never really recovered. Even when Britain was supposedly booming, the old industrial heartlands had high levels of what is rather clinically described as “economic inactivity”.

Five million people now languish on social housing waiting lists, while billions of pounds of housing benefit line the pockets of private landlords charging rip-off rents. The scarcity of housing turns communities against each other, as immigrants or anyone deemed less deserving are scapegoated. But the guilt really lies with the Thatcherite policy of right-to-buy and failure to replace the stock that was sold off.... "

Owen Jones: Thatcherism was a national catastrophe that still poisons us - Comment - Voices - The Independent
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Shouldn't you be sharing your own opinion here and base it on some facts?
 
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TurtleDude said:
Have you ever figured out that when far lefties hate a politician that is an endorsement of her merit to those who are not on the left? she stood with our country against the communist scum so that gives me standing to praise her. Just as you have complained about our leaders who aren't socialists
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None of your leaders are socialists.

Of course your wouldn't know this, but it's not just the far left who hated her. It was conservatives who ousted her, not leftists.
 
TurtleDude said:
Have you ever figured out that when far lefties hate a politician that is an endorsement of her merit to those who are not on the left? she stood with our country against the communist scum so that gives me standing to praise her. Just as you have complained about our leaders who aren't socialists
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Your stuck on this left vs right USA debate but thatchers political lean had nothing to do with it. Tony Blair brings out the same reaction with us Brits and he was a Labour PM, they are polarising leaders.
 
Higgins86 said:
Your stuck on this left vs right USA debate but thatchers political lean had nothing to do with it. Tony Blair brings out the same reaction with us Brits and he was a Labour PM, they are polarising leaders.
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as an American I appreciated the fact that Dame Thatcher tended to support the USA and blame the communists rather than the reverse
 
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Andalublue said:
None of your leaders are socialists.

Of course your wouldn't know this, but it's not just the far left who hated her. It was conservatives who ousted her, not leftists.
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The far left hated her and still do, but the people continued to vote for her.
 
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She got real cozy with some far right wing dictators.
 
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Grant said:
The far left hated her and still do, but the people continued to vote for her.
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People dont vote for Prime Minister...
 
TurtleDude said:
as an American I appreciated the fact that Dame Thatcher tended to support the USA and blame the communists rather than the reverse
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Which is understandable, I myself am a fan of her foreign policy record. However domestically she ruined peoples lifes and decimated whole regions, like I said very polarising .
 
Higgins86 said:
Which is understandable, I myself am a fan of her foreign policy record. However domestically she ruined peoples lifes and decimated whole regions, like I said very polarising .
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Sort of like Nixon
 
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TheDemSocialist said:
People dont vote for Prime Minister...
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That's right, you people vote for party which installs it's leader. Same answer to you then, the people kept voting in the party knowing she was leader and would remain PM.

Can the games. Your position wasn't popular with your countrymen then as it isn't now.
 
Higgins86 said:
Yeh exactly, some people benefited greatly from her time in office and other people suffered.
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hopefully the meritorious benefited while the sloths and slackers did not :mrgreen:
 
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