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She was the last politician with the balls to say no when vested interests came looking for taxpayers money. Bad banks were allowed to fail without a bailout and dying industries were taken off taxpayer funded life-support.
When the IRA were regularly bombing London she didn't make hundreds of ludicrous anti-terror laws even when they tried to blow her up as well. She just stood up and said that we're not going to let them win and carried on with business as usual. Imagine what Blair would have done in that situation.
I think the reason the left hate her so much isn't because she did the opposite of what they wanted, but because it turned out that she was right and they were wrong. No wonder they are all so bitter.
She was the last politician with the balls to say no when vested interests came looking for taxpayers money. Bad banks were allowed to fail without a bailout and dying industries were taken off taxpayer funded life-support.
When the IRA were regularly bombing London she didn't make hundreds of ludicrous anti-terror laws even when they tried to blow her up as well. She just stood up and said that we're not going to let them win and carried on with business as usual. Imagine what Blair would have done in that situation.
I think the reason the left hate her so much isn't because she did the opposite of what they wanted, but because it turned out that she was right and they were wrong. No wonder they are all so bitter.
No not bitter Clive. Full of joy. Its our turn to say Rejoice!
Oddly enough, I've been thinking about Thatcher over the last few days because her name seems to crop up here fairly regularly.
1) I can understand why people hate Thatcher, but I believe they do so for the wrong reasons. A lot of people hate her because they see her actions as arising from the sheer brutality of her personality. In fact the British establishment had already abandoned classical Keynesianism prior to Thatcher. Conservative Prime Minster Ted Heath had tried to put through 'Thatcherite' measures (without much success) in the early 1970s. Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan signalled the abandonment of Keynesianism in 1976: 'We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists.'
In other words, the actions of Thatcher, far from being dictated by individual psychology, were dictated by attempts to do whatever was necessary to revive British capitalism.
2) While Thatcher won all her battles and 'saw off' her opponents, it has become more obvious than ever that she lost the war: Thatcher completely failed in her primary goal of reviving British capitalism.
Someone the other day asked why do political arguments always come down to Thatcher. It's because that was when politics stopped being about a ideas and started being about personality.
Her opponents couldn't really argue about what she did, so they had to attack her personally instead. Hence all the made up crap you see about her, including some classics in this thread eg. She started the war in Argentina and was pals with Jimmy Savile.
She was the last politician with the balls to say no when vested interests came looking for taxpayers money. Bad banks were allowed to fail without a bailout and dying industries were taken off taxpayer funded life-support.
When the IRA were regularly bombing London she didn't make hundreds of ludicrous anti-terror laws even when they tried to blow her up as well. She just stood up and said that we're not going to let them win and carried on with business as usual. Imagine what Blair would have done in that situation.
I think the reason the left hate her so much isn't because she did the opposite of what they wanted, but because it turned out that she was right and they were wrong. No wonder they are all so bitter.
You don't remember the ludicrous law that required Adams, McGuinness and co to be lip synched then?
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