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Thatcher poll: worst or best
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Graham_Devon wrote: ».....IF she had worked on her humility.
That let her down. Therefore, it's difficult to answer as I feel I need to say she was the best and the worst dependant on where you are coming from.
From what I have read she didn't do humility, "snobbish condescension" one quote I have seen."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Moan about Labour all you like but lets not forget who got ride of her in the end.0
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And the vegetables?Oh they will have the same as me
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
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The Thatcher government inherited a nation and an economy where millions lived in state subsidised homes, worked in state subsidised jobs and could look forward to a state subsidised retirement.
They wanted to change the outlook, futures and aspirations of those millions.
They did that, but sometimes it's hard to think that things now are necessarily much better.'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0 -
At the time Mrs T came to power. The UK was in desperate need to regeneration. Double digit inflation, poor Government finances, powerfull unions holding the country to ransom for unjusitfied pay rises. Japan was taking the leading the way in manufacturing process and new management styles. The IRA were planting bombs on the UK mainland.
Unless you were there in the 70's. Difficult to explain how different the country is today.
How we could do with a Churchill or Mrs T today. As the problems faced aren't just going to disappear. They need tackling head on.0 -
I think she was neither - just a PM like any other.0
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angrypirate wrote: »Funny how spitting image stopped the same year as Labour got into Government...
Probably more to do with the fact it was no longer funny the last couple of years before it was pulled.0 -
She must have been some women, to put it in perspective when Churchill died the eulogies were delivered in 45 minutes, Mrs T's lasted hours after it was deemed necessary to recall parliament with expense bills of circa £4k per MP.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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