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Where Thatcher excelled was on the international scene. Her embrace of Gorbachev despite Reagan's initial misgivings was huge. Plus, her willing to go to war over the Falklands showed that, while the Empire was over, the British were still relevant on the world stage and could project power if necessary Yes, she did support Pinochet, but so did the US.
Where she failed, and why she is intensely disliked by many in the UK, was her full embrace of trickle down economics and her scorched earth approach to "reform" British labor. Her government sold off the country's manufacturing base and in effect wrote off swaths of Scotland and the north (places that didn't vote for her party) to benefit of her backers in London. It's hard to understate how much they hated her in the north.
Trade unions at least keep some distribution of the wealth intact against monopoly trusts. She went after the trade union monopolies and left the biggest one of them all , The City of London to its devices. Why just the labor monopolies? Any savings from that just went into monopoly trusts. Granted union vs monopoly is not a very good economic situation but you have to plug every hole in market competitiveness or you wind up with Britain as it is today, still no industry. What more proof do you need that its not just the trade unions?
What do you care? Was she the Prime Minister if the United States for crying out loud?
People in her own country had their noses full of her, and yet you have the nerve to get angry at Americans for not exactly holding her in the highest esteem?
I am not angry in th least. I was merely pointing out that since liberals worship that fat murdering bastard Ted Kennedy they hardly have the moral authority.
LONDON is still an economic center of great control. I know old businessmen and lawyers in Canada who still report to their British bosses...Yes Thatcher was all about keeping a class system alive. She is no different that your American elite who have totally abandoned the unwashed masses...so why are you picking on the dead old woman? She is exactly like you.
Nelson Mandela was a terrorist who put tires around the neck of his enemies and filled with gasoline and set on fire. Why is he revered?
Nelson Mandela was just as much a terrorist as George Washington, Menachem Begin or Mahatma Ghandhi. You really should do a little research before posting such stupidity. Nelson Mandela was sent to Robbins Island (South Africas answer to Devils Island or Alcatraz in 1962 and spent the next 30 years there.) He was not able to be there or even hear of Sweto or any of the other disturbances in South Africs while there.
So driving drunk into a bay and letting the woman that was your passenger drown without even attempting to save her life or call for help, then going home to sleep it off, waking up the next morning to discuss the situation with your political handlers and THEN reporting is not a good reason to loathe Kennedy?
Number of people murdered:
Ted Kennedy 1
Margaret Thatcher 0
You lose! Just like your idol, Senator Swimmer, a morbidly obese murdering drunk.
Margret Thatcher has a lot of blood on her nands. The 600 men who made up the crew of the Argentinian heavy cruiser General Belgrano (a WWII vintage cruiser once named the USS George Washington) by a Royal Navy nuclear attack submarine. This wasafter the Royal marines had retaken the Falklands Islands and had 16,000 Argetine prisoners to hold as hostage. The irony is the General Belgrano was sailing for home and away from the declared war zone.
I am not angry in th least. I was merely pointing out that since liberals worship that fat murdering bastard Ted Kennedy they hardly have the moral authority.
The thread is about right wing dictator Pinochet who presided over the systematic murder of 3,100 people.
Thousands of Chileans called him the grim reaper, Thatcher just called him a great friend, BFF?
Read a history book and you would realize that there have been many dictators besides Castro.
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