It is scandalous to see the "truth-out" about her and what she was like as a leader and a person and a Tory - when those of us at the time who weren't prepared to just sit back and let impending disaster destroy our country rose up individually and collectively to resist. We knew then what she was doing and she was still allowed to do it by those who defended her actions and her poisonous attitudes and beliefs.
It is also clear from the commentary that she accomplished little positive for the representation of women in leadership, public office, as a professional or a woman. It's all been for nought.
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What is odious and unrighteous is to see the evil men who joined with her in her deeds because of their lust for power and fame, now making a mockery of her and her politics as if they were fully aware of her pending misdeeds and the damage they would do.
Shame on you. Shame on the stupid electorate for allowing her to do what she did.
I have NEVER voted Conservative and I NEVER will.
If you have, then shame on you. I know people who did and who defended their decision at the time. They regret what they did now. It is TOO late, now. We are living in the aftermath of your poor judgement.
It makes me even more determined to resist similar, contemporary error of thought and action.
Apart from those high-up types who don't discuss politics in case it ruins their marketability with their publics, would anybody else like to get off their arses, on their bikes and post a comment? This is a big day for this blog. If you don't get that, then you don't get much about me, that's for sure...
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Until she's been beheaded and her body has been burnt, I won't believe she's really dead.
Klash.
although i've proudly never voted conservative, i've also rarely voted democratic...almost always independent...but that's beside the point...the point is you are right...women should be ashamed of her
Hi Kairos - thanks for commenting - I saw you had commented on a number of posts and wanted to encourage you back again. It's a difficult issue about Thatcher's legacy as it's largely dependent on one's point of view both now and at the time. I seriously was filled with fear as a fairly young teenager at school about the time of her arrival and through living through reign until she was viciously deposed by her own people because of the embarrassment she'd caused them, I was already a Labour activist by then and was learning everything I could in the light of the definite need to form a different economic system. All my economic training at the time was in monetarism, yet even then the Keynesian system of thought, though clearly also ineffective, made much more sense.
However, if you're a part of the old rich, or nouveau-riche she directly created in her wake, then I imagine you did quite well out of those years.
If you were poor and/or disadvantaged, then you were in her sights. It wasn't that she was completely out of touch with the needs of her own people that was the biggest problem. It was her desire to rid you of your character problem.
If you were not yet in this lovely world, then really you've little chance of truly knowing how it felt to be part of that weird age which can never really be repeated.
One thing she did do was to make it possible for a woman to be PM. The USA still hasn't managed to break that barrier yet and we saw in the Obama election how America would be happier with a black president than a female one - the HOW MUCH America did NOT want a woman leading them.
Thatcher did achieve something, but I'm afraid did more damage than she brought blessing to this nation and reinforced more prejudice, stereotype and cliche than she brought in a new age of democracy. Unless you're a UKIP supporter and then she was the best of a bad bunch, just like they are.
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