Last night we learned the sad news that Baroness
Margaret Thatcher died. Love her or loathe her
one could not ignore her. She became prime minister
of the United Kingdom in 1979. She was the first
woman to hold the post and served longer as prime
minister than any Briton of the 1900s. She was a
politician to be reckoned with.

May she Rest in Peace.

a conviction politician if their was ever one.

Yes, Dame Thatcher was a great lady.

She paved the way for many other female politicians to get up the courage to take on the boys clubs that were ( and continue to be to a certain extent) so prolific in politics around the world.

She was also a role model for how to be a really tough politician and party leader for all the male politicians too.... extremely tough!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQLQ1Rc_Js

But I think it's a fairly safe bet that even Maggie Thatcher will turn into a top bloke after death... it seems to have started already.

Cheers,

Tony

How m any of us remember the woman.
How many lived as adults duriung her reign?
I remember the destruction of England,s working class.
The fleeing to search for jobs all over the world.
I know some giving had to be done, by unions.
But what is the purpose of an economy?
Is the quest to create wealth able to ride on the back of whole under classes.
My thoughts about the woman do not change, blind and uncaring to the impacts of her life time wish, to be not the Grocers daughter, but upper class, I continue to loath her.

Lexi, you are to be congratulated for starting this thread with compassion and balance.

That said I feel genuine shame for the way much of our media, including the ABC, our ALP politicians and trade union officials have publicly vilified, spat bile, rewritten history and attempted to destroy the legacy a genuine leader of stature.

For this, as an Australian I am deeply ashamed and offer my humble apologies to a nation that has lost its way from a nation that has now also lost its way.

I have scoured the coverage of the deaths of leaders and former leaders from across the world’s political spectrum and can find nothing as vile as the current commentary, even from opposing ideologies. Even Kim Yung Ill got a better international eulogy.

Maggie’s death appears to have presented the opportunity for many of our higher profile public figures to shed their closet socialist profiles and “come out”.

The majority of the negative commentators were not even born in that era, have never lived in the UK and know nothing of recent European political history. So what could possibly be the origins of such hatred?

My conclusions are that these commentators have simply adopted the opinions of others, it is pure ideological zealotry. This is an indication that western democracies and in particular our public institutions, have shifted by stealth much further to the left than we may have realised. Maggie was instrumental in the destruction of Soviet Socialism, she defended Britain from the excesses of the creeping UN/EU brand of socialism and won three elections in her own right from the British electorate.

Of all the world’s post WWII leaders, Maggie was the most successful against socialism. We know this because the socialists in our midst our telling us so.

The only good I see coming out of this is that the Socialism in our midst has exposed itself for all of us to observe and it is ugly. It has also converted Maggie into a symbolic icon of everything socialism despises most, democracy.

RIP Maggie