Up With This She Would Have Not Put !

[Khandro]

Where are they now when they are needed?

https://www.gbnews.com/news/margaret-thatcher-latest-migrant-crisis-channel-crossing-latest

[William51]

He is probably right about Margaret Thatcher, when she put her foot down she took no nonsense from anyone. These days politicians are toothless and have no imaginative answers to our problems such as the boat people.

[gulliver1]

TGL..... The Ghastly Lady ...

[douglas9401]

Any chance we could have proposals of someone still alive though?

The Borg queen is unlikely to return any time soon.

[wolf63]

Douglas ... "The Borg queen is unlikely to return any time soon" - Do you want to be assimilated?

[Khandro]

I think he's right about her use of the Royal Navy, (and the person to whom the OP alludes !). Isn't the purpose of the RN to defend the country from maritime invasions? after all, they've been doing it for centuries.

[youngmafbog]

In this there is little doubt TGL would have got it sorted.

However Mrs T was of her time and I am not so sure she would shine so much in todays climate.

[fender62]

thatcher would not have signed us up to the echr, and would have pushed the boats back, ie no ones landing or getting picked up
and as a side not would have sacked the rail strikers and and junior doctors consultants or c hanged the law so they cannot strike, she was a wonderful prime minister oh the glory days...

[ToraToraTora]

fender, yep, just one of many reasons I loved the 80s.

[Canary42]

If she was so effective why did the Tory Party Toffs betray her ?

[andy-hughes]

It's a common response to bad times, to look back with fondness at previous leaders, and assume that, where they here now, things would be better.

It's highly unlikely.

For all her personal determination, Lady Thatcher was a pragmatic politician, and she would have seen the wisdom of signing into the ECHR legislation for the benefits she would have seen at the time.

We all have 20:20 hindsight, and wish things were different, but they aren't, and getting misty eyed about a politician who was once a powerful force, but became an intransigent liability, doesn't really help things.

[Gromit]

Nile Gardiner is a big buddy of Rudy Giuliani. He worked as an adviser during his 2008 Presidential bid.
I wonder if he will visit him in prison ?

[Atheist]

Khandro; your link shows some sixth-form tory claiming to channel Thatcher so that he can explain what she would have done if she were now alive. That's not gbnews, it's gb views. How can you watch such tosh?

[Canary42]

Much as I despised her, Thatcher's departure laid the ground for the disastrous Brexit. She would never have contemplated leaving, she would sort them all out deGaulle style. No leader since her has had the balls to exploit the UK's strong position in the EU, so they cowardly backed out, to the appalling detriment to our economy and the shabby reality of the sunlit uplands.

[tomus42]

What would the navy do - Blast them out of the water?

Take them back to France? How would that work if the French didn't cooperate? (Spoiler alert: they wouldn't).

[Barsel]

Khandro , you seem to have all the right words in the title but not necessarily in the right order.

[gulliver1]

Even..The Witch would have stayed in the EU.

[New Judge]

//She would never have contemplated leaving, she would sort them all out deGaulle style.//

Would she have signed the Maastricht Treaty, do you think?

The one thing TGL excelled at was championing the interests of the UK. Unless drastic changes were made to that Treaty, she could not have signed it and continued her championship. Something would have had to give, and I'm not so sure even TGL would have persuaded the Euromaniacs to reconsider.

[Peter Pedant]

PP here
Y'all know it is a Churchill comment on grammar?
Not on machine gunning immigrants

In fact during those times, ( forties) the right was given to settle to those Poles who had fought for King George?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Resettlement_Act_1947

[ichkeria]

The problem with flouting international laws and international bodies is that when you need them they won’t be there.

Talk is very easy. Someone is making headlines out of guessing what a dead person might have done.