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Agree entirely.
She did have some significant faults and Britain is no better off now because of her
How do you know that? Britain was a basket case, run by the unions, before she took over.

She was, at least, a politician of genuine conviction, unlike the "change with the political wind" individuals we endure these days.
 

Three sides to every story, both the opposites and the facts.
 
History shows that Britain was controlled by the three main unions and governments had to negotiate deals -- Jim Calaghan was PM In 1979 there was the 'winter of discontent' when rubbish was left in the streets for months and the Labour party was replaced by the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher.

James Callaghan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Callaghan

Winter of Discontent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent

Margaret Thatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

Without Mrs Thatcher Britain would have given up the Falkland Islands to Argentina. It was a major standing point: Falklands War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War

Thatcher decided not to negotiate with the unions and in 1984 the coal miners under leader Arthur Scargill called a national strike without a ballet of members. The Nottingham area decided not to join the strike without a ballet of members.
The fault lay with Scargill who made himself President for Life and miscalculated the will of Mrs Thatcher in what became a struggle that they were bound to lose.
After the strike many coal mines in the North of England were closed putting whole towns and villages out of work and they have never forgiven her to this day.

Arthur Scargill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Scargill

My view is that if you lose then tough you get the consequences from that.

Thatcher saved Britain from disaster and from penal tax rates up to 98%. Britain moved on and as a society has a mixed race system which seems to have worked despite the Banks lending in America, going bust or virtually bust, and losing about $2 trillion or so. Tough again, if you get it wrong you lose, get over it somehow.

Thatcherism: Thatcherism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcherism

BBC News - Europe and Baroness Thatcher: The great divide
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22072992
 
Mark these three names, they had the courage to stand against the empty-headed viciousness of the Melbourne Uni Students Council's stamping on a great PM's grave. Thatcher's crime? The unthinkable, she stood up to the Unions.

Well done lads.

Against:
Matthew Lesh (NOW!/Liberal)
Charles Cartney (NOW!/Liberal)
James Duncan (NOW!/Liberal)

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...her_always_had_more_courage_than_her_critics/
 
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