The Downing Street Years P0203

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[gopconservative78]

If this was a French war....Argentina would be marching in Paris after the French surrender

[spenceAMS]

you're not doing the tory party any favours with such comments, gopc'

[davidg1234]

The only reason we don't have the riots and conflict today is because Thatcher successfully dealt with the collectivist groups who wanted to hold society back, and her victory paved the way for our modern way of living.

The conflicts only re-arose under the Thatcher years because her predecessors constantly gave in to collectivist demands and emboldened them to try their luck every time.

[billydeeuk]

As much as I disagree with MUCH of Maggie's policies, at least she had the strength of conviction - something that is somewhat lacking in politics nowadays

[Messylin]

Thatcher was born to be a politician - as opposed to most of the people calling themselves such that should have been professional actors. Remember Tony Blair's speech the morning after Diana's death? That was like a RADA audition.

[brianclough]

Kinnock was right. Thatcher had the right enemies, Galtieri and Scargill, but he forgot to add himself and Michael Foot to that list. There was no way Britain in 1983 or 1987 would have allowed either Foot or Kinnock to become PM.

[tnakai1971jp]

There is no point in being a weak floppy thing in the chair, is there?

Japan too needs a PM like her.

[tnakai1971jp]

Some, if not many, of her former colleagues criticize her for certain decisions she took. I very much doubt that they would have done the better jobs. Margaret Thatcher's style was, simply, based on common sense.

An invasion cannot be negotiated away, it can only be repelled by force. The state cannot indefinitely fund losing enterprises, they need to be shut down.

The world was changing and Britain was simply a part of that change. She accepted it when many others refused to.

[Durbs75]

@zephyruk

1981 - hmm..."gripped the uk". Leeds, Leicester, York, Manchester, Coventary, Southampton, Nottingham, Brum. None of these can be called Home Countues can they? And yet they survived the mob.

1990 - be careful. If you were a single parent with two children it wasn't quite as hated as you seem to think.

[ngai1842]

@gopconservative78

i am French, proud of it,

but really cannot keep myself from liking your comment...

cheers

[Seanq01]

"I think that sometimes a Prime Minister should be intimidating...theres not much point in being a weak floppy thing in the chair is there??" lol. that was soo priceless

[basfranken]

I take my words from the previous part back... he is mad!!!