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Her "personal and dear" friend ( her words not mine) Pinochet and her can now take turns to congratulate each other on their politics in Hell.
I admired her grit and ambition. Otherwise she was one small step removed from evil in my book. The most destructive Politician in British society for a very long time. There seems to be a lot of people cheering in the UK right now.
Sad for her family. Not so sad for this country.
I can't really celebrate her death despite my visceral loathing of her. I do wish she had reaped what she had sowed though.
Her legacy sadly still lives on and she and people like her seemed to have built the foundations of our current financial crisis with their so called market led policies and demands for financial deregulation and "free market" to be all consuming, all powerful. Her "descendants" followed a very Thatcherite model. Greed and selfishness combined to make a perfect storm.
Celebrating her death is tasteless perhaps but her policies were far, far worse and more destructive .
Maybe instead of Champagne a quiet moment of satisfied reflection that this political nightmare is no more.
Brits are great at spinning Myths, Legends, and Lore.
I'm not quite sure what you mean, but it's an interesting question. Much of American political culture is built around myth, beginning with Washington and his little axe. I think most historians would agree that, in terms of historical memory, the two greatest British figures of the Twentieth Century, Churchill and Thatcher, are far more mythologized in the United States than in their own land. Both remain controversial in the U.K., their good and bad points equally noted, but are much more likely to be presented in a single dimension here.
People in UK can call her conservative, but in US she would have been a democrat. Big spender, and although she lowered some taxes, she raised other taxes, and did nothing to privetize health care.
I admired her grit and ambition. Otherwise she was one small step removed from evil in my book. The most destructive Politician in British society for a very long time. There seems to be a lot of people cheering in the UK right now.
The ANC did resort to bombings and violence. One mans freedom fighter is another mans terrorist.
unfortunatley you cannot shame viscious bullys - bigots into changing their policys with high minded rhetoric , luckily everyone understands a bloody nose
thatcher was an idealogue , she did good when dealing with intransigent unions who had held the economy to ransom for too long , she was utterly wrongheaded in some other areas
a remarkable and iconic politican who wont be forgotten , thats for sure
Her "personal and dear" friend ( her words not mine) Pinochet and her can now take turns to congratulate each other on their politics in Hell.
I admired her grit and ambition. Otherwise she was one small step removed from evil in my book. The most destructive Politician in British society for a very long time. There seems to be a lot of people cheering in the UK right now.
Sad for her family. Not so sad for this country.
I can't really celebrate her death despite my visceral loathing of her. I do wish she had reaped what she had sowed though.
UK lost 30% of it's manufacturing output under her leadership. They've never recovered. They have one the highest income disparities in Europe.
My initial thought was: She is dead, the wicked witch is dead!
My second thought was: Not really. Her legacy of devastating the remote parts of Britain for the City of London financiers and her support of apartheid by the upper crust still live on to the detriment of much of the British.
I heard of her death this morning. I didn't feel anything for her. Considering her legacy, supporting apartheid, being "the milk snatcher", and some of the other things you mentioned, I can't say I have much respect for her.
People in UK can call her conservative, but in US she would have been a democrat. Big spender, and although she lowered some taxes, she raised other taxes, and did nothing to privetize health care.
The UK shifted Left structurally about 100 years ago when the working classes and women got the vote. One has to work within the political realities of the country.
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She had more balls than some of these men politicians.
