Love or hate her....she will undoubtably be remembered. However thats not always a good thing....we do haveple like J.F Kennedy or John Lennon for example that are remembered.....but also have Hitler and Saddam Hussain...sure they will be remembered as well.....as I say...its not always for the right reasons.
Mrs thatcher presided over the worst riots we have seen in this country....with the Poll Tax.....we had two Summers of Race riots in our inner cities....we saw the dismantling of our industrial base. we saw the rise of the Yuppie.. Loads of money...don't care about you Jack I'm okay, culture. At the time of her own departure she was the most hated person in the UK....even her own party saw that and kicked her out mid term. Her legacy was to ensure three election wins for Labour.
I wish Mrs Thatcher no harm now, by all accounts she is a frail old lady, with dementia. I do honestly wish her well and good health. But if she was ever offered a state funeral there would be total upraor in the country.
below is a link....maybe funny...but is was exactly what the Mrs Thatcher years was about !
i reckon they should allow everyone a day off when she does depart us.
except of course for the thatcher haters, but hold on a minute i am sure they would still take the day off.
this almost brought me to teers.
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The Thatcher haters are obviously too young to remember the years that preceded her. A country paralysed by Unions, completely broke, a work shy population and astronomically high taxes.
Mrs Thatcher changed the United Kingdom for the better and no right thinking person who was of an age to understand economics in the pre Thatcher years could possibly say any different.
Granted that Social Ideologists might have a different view - but even the concept, of equality for all apart from the fact that some are more equal than others, collapsed some years later.
besides a state funeral will we also get 13-day period of national mourning ?
Oh well perhaps I overestimated you .... sometimes a line is just wasted ... pearls etc.
You do realise it was a joke? The him her thing?
One thing that amuses or baffles me in any conversation/discussion/bickering about Thatcher, is that you get the usual Labour supporters spill their hatred for what she did to this country, yet conveniently forget that she left power in 1990, to be replaced by John Major, who then became Prime Minister for 7 years. Labour were elected into power in 1997, and despite being in power for 13 years, did nothing to change some people's views that the problems with this country is all the fault of Thatcher.