[Brazelton] RIP Margaret Thatcher
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"On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read “The Mummy Returns”."
- Margaret Thatcher (Conservative Election Rally, May 2001)[DOUBLEPOST=1365428356][/DOUBLEPOST]Great, I'm reading the quotes and finding a lot to like about the Lady.
"It is ironic that just when those countries such as the Soviet Union, which have tried to run everything from the centre, are learning that success depends on dispersing power and decisions away from the centre, there are some in the community who seem to want to move in the opposite direction. We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels." – in the "Bruges speech", 1988[DOUBLEPOST=1365428387][/DOUBLEPOST]It’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease - they’ve run out of other people’s money. (Tory Party Conference, October 1975)
- Margaret Thatcher (Conservative Election Rally, May 2001)[DOUBLEPOST=1365428356][/DOUBLEPOST]Great, I'm reading the quotes and finding a lot to like about the Lady.
"It is ironic that just when those countries such as the Soviet Union, which have tried to run everything from the centre, are learning that success depends on dispersing power and decisions away from the centre, there are some in the community who seem to want to move in the opposite direction. We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels." – in the "Bruges speech", 1988[DOUBLEPOST=1365428387][/DOUBLEPOST]It’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease - they’ve run out of other people’s money. (Tory Party Conference, October 1975)
Her policies were pretty, ah, polarizing, so I suppose it's to be expected some people are reacting out of negative emotion, rather than respecting the dead.
Rest in peace, Iron Lady. I hope you're remembered as someone who did what she felt was necessary, political consequences be damned.
Rest in peace, Iron Lady. I hope you're remembered as someone who did what she felt was necessary, political consequences be damned.
Without Thatcher, we wouldn't have had Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.
So I'm thankful.
So I'm thankful.
Dave
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Like Ronald Reagan, Thatcher's policies were absolutely terrible. You can look back on those times with a critical eye and point to the place where the rich started getting richer and the poor started getting poorer and the gap in between the two began to widen. But there's no denying that each of them had a force of personality and political ability that made them both larger than life. I wonder, though, if the conservatives in Britain will have the same collective amnesia at the policies of the time that those on the right have here in the US. I'm not glad they are dead, but I'm glad they were out of office and wish the people who deify them would be smart enough to see the irony in their support.
I always rather liked Margaret Thatcher, remembered fondly through the sepia-toned lens of distant memory. She was the Prime Minister when I moved to Britain, and I can remember being discombobulated when Tony Blair was elected after her.
While her policies and politics were polarizing, one can never accuse her of waffling, or being afraid to state what she thought.
RIP, Madam.
While her policies and politics were polarizing, one can never accuse her of waffling, or being afraid to state what she thought.
RIP, Madam.
Wow, really? People are dicks. I'm just glad I haven't seen any of that crap.
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Yeah, apparently a certain song from the Wizard of Oz soundtrack is charting again because of it.
My best friend linked me an article demonizing her on the day of her death. All I could think was "SUPER classy, dude."[DOUBLEPOST=1365625036][/DOUBLEPOST]I mean, I hated Reagan's politics, but I didn't jump for joy when he died. I do admit that I probably will when Bush Jr does, though.
The unending class of the leader of Canada's Green Party, using a woman's death to conspicuously not-name our Prime Minister.
I'll be honest, I don't agree with a lot of the stuff he did in office, but I'd still have a beer with him. I just don't get the feeling he had as much to do with things that happened as we might think. A little too easy to manipulate, that one.
Now Cheney, he makes me feel dirty all over. I won't cheer his death, but I won't mourn it either.
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Reminds me of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.
The Prez of Argentina and the diplomats are not invited to the funeral. Supposedly it was the family's decision.
Heh, sorry man, I didn't see it.
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