Mrs Thatcher Resigns - BBC 1 O'Clock News
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......lost the 1992 general election. I preferred Major's more moderate political stance, within the party. He established a rapport with Dublin, & was at least prepared to communicate with the rest of the EU. Of course, signing us up to the Maastricht Treaty wasn't one of his better ideas. Will he best be remembered for the infamous motorway "cone hotline" he set up, or the legislation he introduced compelling all new appliances to be fitted with a plug???!!!!
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Not before time, either - remember it well. Ok - only a few cabinet members: notably Ken Clarke & Michael Hesaltine had the guts to tell her that it was time to stand down, but only because she was so forceful, that most dared not challenge her authority. The majority of Britons were thoroughly fed up with her, by now. The poll tax riots said it all - a large section of society had been ignored and neglected by the Thatcher govt, for many years. Had John Major not emerged, they'd've certainly...
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Funny how they all called for the 'party to come together', yet it was this event that led to them ripping themselves to pieces over the next fifteen years. In a way, they've never gotten over stabbing her in the back.
3 weeks ago 3
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And don't get me started about the media's favourite, the Libdems.
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Labour has done much more damage to the UK than Thatcher. Cold hard fact. In times with too many taxes, too much European interference in national matters, done by men who were NOT elected by the people, and of course the "wonderful" euro we need leaders like her. Time will agree with me.
3 weeks ago 2
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Why can't he keep still?
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well for a woman who cut up our country to bits and sold it off, what did she expect!!!!
1 month ago 2
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It's a funny old world.
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one of the greatest women of all time x
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@tizzard1970 You may not like her, at all, but it is abhorrent for you to wish her to be dead. Only one word for you: pathetic.
1 month ago 3
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Isn't that Peter Mandelson with the revolting moustache walking next to Neil Kinnock? Creep.
dezboss 1 year ago 19
@dezboss yes, its the legend himself
herpfreakuk 9 months ago 10