Yes, Constance - it seems we can....

csteeleBefore the 1979 general election Thatcher denied any intention to raise the VAT (their GST) which was at 8%. Within months this regressive tax was hiked to 15%. Documents later showed this was planned nearly a full year before the election.<<

Csteele, why does that have a recent familiar ring to it? Gillard perhaps?

Promise made, promise breached, and a prior knowledge that if a Green seat was needed the Carbon tax was on….but you are right, Thatcher did it first.

It is estimated 153,781 people died on 8th April 2013, add Thatcher to the list.

A truth worth visiting.
It is easy to lie.
We even joke about faking sincerity.
And yes we lie,wait until the person we just kissed on the check leaves before saying we can not stand them!
I like Bob Carr this morning, will not, the woman was as I said, and remains so.

love the way lefties revise history in order to vent hatred. I am sure it must be part of their arts degrees.

Whatever you think Maggie’s record basic human decency should record her passing with respect.

It is malicious and odious to fabricate and promulgate untruths in order to vent ones ideological hatred.

Living in the UK through the 1970's was not fun with 3 day weeks, power cuts, rampant inflation and a country brought to its knees by a cabal of communist inspired trade union leaders. The winter of discontent in 1979 with coffins stacked up at Liverpool's crematoria awaiting a decent burial, bags of rubbish lying around the streets etc had nothing to do with Maggie - it was out of control militant trade unionism that was the root cause

Labor had the opportunity when Barbara Castle brought out her "in place of strife" legislation which would have curbed the unions but Labor again bottled it.

One of the lie’s that gets promulgated is "Maggie Thatcher milk snatcher" - it was Harold Wilson's Labor government in 1968 that abolished free milk in secondary schools (who remembers that) with Ted Heath adding in primary schools in the early 70's Yet Maggie gets the blame for the policy.

As highlighted by Brendan O’Neill in the Australian today, “Far more coal mines were shut by Harold Wilson's Labor government in the 1960s than by Thatcher. Under Wilson, 406 mines were closed, leading to 315,000 job losses, compared with the closure of 146 mines and the loss of 173,000 jobs under Thatcher. Yet it's Thatcher who's remembered as destroyer of the mining way of life.

Labor government of the late 70s, which fulminated against trade union "vandalism" and tried to put tight screws on workers' wages while the number in unemployment rose to 1.5 million.

How about war? Thatcher fought the Argies in 1982 and joined George HW Bush's war on Iraq in 1990. But her imperial ambitions, not to mention death toll, pale into insignificance when compared with Labour prime minister Tony Blair's bloody ventures in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. While Blair is proving belatedly unpopular among his former fawners, he isn't loathed with the same demented fury as Thatcher”.