Margaret Thatcher................

[Joe_the_Lion]

What I understand of the lady, her policies and running of the country were spot on.

However, she is constantly ridiculed by in the press and and many a member on AB.

Can somebody tell me in their own words who remember her in power ( i.e at least a teenager in 1979!!) why she was so bad.

And why, again in their own words, closing the mines, privatising a lot of the public sector, and taking a few cartons of milk away were so bad and how it affected them???

I am at a loss.

[jake-the-peg]

Do you mean an exclamation mark rather than apostrophe David?

The capital K is "correct" what is "incorrect" is my use of a hyphen to end a sentence!

Oh and the second exclamation mark is superflous.

I know it was meant ironically but it's best to get it right if you're going to split hairs! ;c)

We recently had a post.

"Your Grammer (sp) is awful"

What is the world coming to? and I bet they were at school when Margaret was minister for education!

[DavidUK]

Their you go - we're just splitting hare's now!

Sorry to have sidetracked your question, Joe, but I couldn't resist :-)

[Joe_the_Lion]

I quite like it when people question spelling, punctuation, grammar etc. It shows there is no more debate left and they really are clutching at straws. They also look very silly like crete above. I mean dictionEry. And the fact "negativist" is an everyday word!! Quite amusing.

I am certainly in the top ten percent of the most intelligent people on here and admit my spelling is quite awful at times. But if the message is conveyed well enough, who gives a flying monkies? (Or is that monkey's??)

Anyway, I am still waiting for some good things to be said about Thatcher. She was in for 3 terms so must have had something going for her!!

[ummmm]

She had nice handbags......!!!!

[jno]

she took things like British Gas and sold them to the public, which made people rich if they could afford the shares; as it had previously been publicly owned, everyone else lost out. (Enabling people to own their own homes was achieved in a similar manner - taking them from the councils who had built them with the funding of all ratepayers; those who didn't live in them lost out.) The people she'd made rich voted for her; but it was always at someone else's expense.

The one privatisation that was worthwhile was the phones.

[Heidihi1301]

sounds very much like our own pm of the moment does it not. the war,the ruining of things that should be available to all - like the NHS, robbing the rich to give to the poor and robbing the poor to give to the rich. some things never change. A government will never please everyone - only the ones who are benefiting at the time.

[suffragette]

I'm a left winger and disagreed with most of Thatchers policies, but I will credit her with bringing leadership back into British politics. She was the shock to the system the nation needed to re-motivate itself and find something to fight for, or against.

I'm still convinced we fought the Falklands war to maintain a foothold around Antarctica. There is enormous wealth to be found in that region and eventually it will be industrialised. particularly if the ice keeps melting.

[johnlambert]

Leaving aside our personal diffrences minter, I am the quintessential (<correct spelling fron the thesaurus) Conservative party voter/supporter and in my opinion, the Lady was/ still is a political goddess. She and she along put the "Great" back into Great Britain. As others have rightly said, in 1979, the UK wax known as the "sick man of Europe" when she negotiated our rebate it was the start of putting us back on an equal footing with the rest of Europe, we are now (mainly due to her policies which the New Labour party seem to be copying) the strongest ecomomy in Europe, overtaking the once mighty Germans.
As for the "pointless" Falklands war (alas I was serving in Northern Ireland on "other duties" at the time and unable to join the Task Force". Her determination to win them back warned the rest of the world that we were still an formidable world power not to be messed around with. As you rightly say, she won 3 national elections therfore she must have been doing something right.

[troot28]

Regretfully, an "I'm all right Jack" attitude is rife throughout this country.
Thatcher is solely responsible for this and I for one will be joining Elvis Costello on that oh so beautiful day as we "Tramp the dirt down"

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