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Thatcher is dead.



Britain was circling the drain when she took office.


She was a courageous leader who spoke plainly and forcefully. Her logic was unimpeachable and stood in stark contrast to approval-seeking, pandering sycophants.


 
Thatcher's long journey to becoming one of Britain's most influential leaders began in humble surroundings. She was born on Oct. 13, 1925, in the small English town of Grantham. Her mother was a dressmaker, her father a grocer and a local politician.

Thatcher often credited her father with introducing her to politics. She said he instilled in her the importance of being an independent thinker and of being able to stand on her own two feet — values that she expected from all Britons once she gained power...
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-Jackie Northam
NPR



 
trysail said:


Britain was circling the drain when she took office.


She was a courageous leader who spoke plainly and forcefully. Her logic was unimpeachable and stood in stark contrast to approval-seeking, pandering sycophants.
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My brother gave up smoking because he wanted to deprive her of as much of his tax money as possible. That was the only good influence she ever had.
 
If nothing else, you Brits should thank her for keeping you out of the Euro.
 
Groggy this morning, for one horrible moment I thought they said Margaret Atwood.
 
http://www.youtube.com/v/3GwjfUFyY6M

WOOHOO! STREET PARTY!
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Lordy, lordy...

...I love the smell of progressive hate and intolerance in the morning.

Just one more old, white person to check off the list...

...and just one necessary death closer to that utopian world where hate and intolerance finally disappear forever more.

Except, of course, progressive hate and intolerance...

...which is a good kind of hate and intolerance, don't you know.
 
eyer said:
Lordy, lordy...

...I love the smell of progressive hate and intolerance in the morning.

Just one more old, white person to check off the list...

...and just one necessary death closer to that utopian world where hate and intolerance finally disappear forever more.

Except, of course, progressive hate and intolerance...

...which is a good kind of hate and intolerance, don't you know.
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Even you can't pollute the joy of this day, eeyore. Have a flower :rose:
 
RationalWiki:

Although not a direct insult, Margaret Thatcher is used as a yardstick to test public hatred for politicians. Although Tony Blair has tried hard in his ten years as Prime Minister he will be devastated to leave office without even 50% of the villification Maggie achieved. 'Mrs. Thatcher the Milk Snatcher', 'Maggie' or 'Crazy Old Bitch' as she was affectionately known, steered the UK through important and necessary structural economic changes to ensure the competitiveness of Britain's economy.

She did this in the most despicably mean-spirited and evil manner, by forcing hardship and unemployment upon millions of people, removing role models and providing a whole generation with a substandard education. This is conclusive evidence of sexual equality as she proved a feminine ability to be more ruthless than the most evil men.
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—Urban Dictionary

<snip>

Economics

Thatcher used an economic system called monetarism during her time in government, which many people thought would be a good idea. It certainly was successful, if her goal was to drive unemployment up past 4 million and destroy British industry. Unfortunately, Thatcher herself couldn't see what the fuck she was doing to everything and everyone, leading to the introduction of the poll tax. However, the poll tax was a brilliant idea as it led to Thatcher's downfall.

Thatcher's economic ideas (like those of Saint Ronnie) caused a marked rise in unemployment,[6] along with budget deficits (later hugely overshadowed), and a trade deficit. On the other hand, she did succeed in reducing inflation from nearly 17% to about 5%, while helping to stabilize GDP growth at about 5% growth a year.[7] She is also largely to credit (or blame, depending on your ideology) for the UK's transition from an industrial to a service economy; economists are largely (but not completely) in agreement that a service-based economy is better then an industrial one.

The overall picture of her economic policy can best be described as "murky."

MRSA Outbreak in the NHS

In 1990 the internal market was introduced by the Thatcher government. This meant that hospitals could send their patients to other hospitals, often hundreds of miles away, to obtain cheaper treatment for the patients.

However, this backfired big-time for Ol' Maggie. A patient was sent from Kettering General Hospital, Northamptonshire, to a hospital in London. This patient had been tested for and was positive with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Subsequently many patients in the London hospital contracted MRSA; they were then moved out of the London hospital to other hospitals with the result that further patients were infected with MRSA. The spread of MRSA was assisted by poor hospital hygiene, which had declined as a direct result of the Thatcher government's policy of contracting out (or 'outsourcing') hospital cleaning services to private companies. The private companies were happy to take the NHS contract money, but provided sub-standard services in return.

Random collection of tidbits

She was married to Denis Thatcher, who pickled himself to death with alcohol as a form of socially acceptable suicide.

Her ability to feel emotions remains unconfirmed..

Milk Snatcher

As Minister for Education (1970-74) she stopped the free issue of milk to schoolchildren aged seven and over. This led to the often heard chant: "Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher."

Living in the Past
It turns out when East and West Germany were going to be reunited, Thatcher told the Soviet government to stop it.[8] What a bitch.

Alzheimer's
In 2008 her daughter Carol revealed that Baroness Thatcher had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for up to eight years.[9]

Quotes

"There is no such thing as 'society,' only individuals and families."

"I always bat for Britain."

—Margaret Thatcher after securing a lucrative business contract for her own family.

"Don't worry about the Germans beating us at our national sport. We beat them at theirs twice in the twentieth century. "
—After Germany beat England in the World Cup

"The Mummy Returns!"
—After her terrifying, undead corpse was resurrected for a Conservative general election rally in 2001.
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Thank you so much for the link and quote Oreo. Those of us that don't have access to the internet are grateful to you for doing the yeoman's work.
 
eyer said:
Lordy, lordy...

...I love the smell of progressive hate and intolerance in the morning.

Just one more old, white person to check off the list...

...and just one necessary death closer to that utopian world where hate and intolerance finally disappear forever more.

Except, of course, progressive hate and intolerance...

...which is a good kind of hate and intolerance, don't you know.
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Here's the funny thing, Eyer: probably more of us on the left like you than do those on the right. I know I do.

Vette can't stand you.

Hate and intolerance have unlikely bedfellows.
 
Ken Livingstone is the only person I've heard on the BBC so far to actually call her what she was.
 
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