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Watching the programme tonight on 2, wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a leader who was as strong and determined.
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No-one could deny that Mrs Thatcher was a strong leader. The problems occured when she failed to understand that disagreement is not the same as dissent, and gradually froze out her cabinet from the decision process.
It is acknowledged that she had no life outside politics, which made it impossible for her not to be a 'back seat driver' to John Major's time in office.
A strong and determined leader is always desireable, but beware the pendulum swinging too far, to a situation where a leader believes only him or herself to be right.
Mrs Thatcher was treated badly by her party, but only because she refused to believe that she was no longer the best person in it.
It is acknowledged that she had no life outside politics, which made it impossible for her not to be a 'back seat driver' to John Major's time in office.
A strong and determined leader is always desireable, but beware the pendulum swinging too far, to a situation where a leader believes only him or herself to be right.
Mrs Thatcher was treated badly by her party, but only because she refused to believe that she was no longer the best person in it.
It seems, no-knowledge, that you are determined to live up to your name!
The Blair years probably saw the Cabinet frozen out to a far greater degree than Mrs Thatcher ever managed. The Cabinet minutes relating to the decision to go to war in Iraq, which the Justice Secretary has recently refused to release, would almost certainly confirm that.
The majority of people who denigrate Mrs T were not around (or at least not old enough) to recall what the country was like in 1979. The previous 15 years (in which I include the four years of Edward Heath�s Conservative administration) had seen the country reduced to a broken wreck. The trade unions held so much sway that effective government was virtually impossible. And it showed.
Mrs T was a strong leader and not everybody (even some staunch Conservatives) agreed with everything she did. However, to allow the country to continue as it had done for the previous fifteen years was not an option and people enjoying a high standard of living today (as they do, compared to the 1970s) have a lot to thank Mrs T for. This includes today�s so-called �poor�.
The situation the UK finds itself in today is equally serious, but its causes are different. Strong leadership is required to negotiate the country out of this mess.
I have not yet watched last night's production, but I know the ending!
The Blair years probably saw the Cabinet frozen out to a far greater degree than Mrs Thatcher ever managed. The Cabinet minutes relating to the decision to go to war in Iraq, which the Justice Secretary has recently refused to release, would almost certainly confirm that.
The majority of people who denigrate Mrs T were not around (or at least not old enough) to recall what the country was like in 1979. The previous 15 years (in which I include the four years of Edward Heath�s Conservative administration) had seen the country reduced to a broken wreck. The trade unions held so much sway that effective government was virtually impossible. And it showed.
Mrs T was a strong leader and not everybody (even some staunch Conservatives) agreed with everything she did. However, to allow the country to continue as it had done for the previous fifteen years was not an option and people enjoying a high standard of living today (as they do, compared to the 1970s) have a lot to thank Mrs T for. This includes today�s so-called �poor�.
The situation the UK finds itself in today is equally serious, but its causes are different. Strong leadership is required to negotiate the country out of this mess.
I have not yet watched last night's production, but I know the ending!
This bitch used the police as her own personal army and was the nearest thing the UK has been to having it's very own modern day dictator
Did you spend a year on strike to stop the closure of your colliery New Judge?
Did you get battered by thatchers puppet thugs who were armed to the teeth , arriving by the hundreds by chartered jets?
Strong leader ? more like callous and evil.
this will be the woman that came on the news and told us to rejoice in the sinking of the Belgrano will it? but when our own soldiers and sailors were killed she left it to some else to tell us , or did i miss her telling us how sad she was at the loss of life aboard HMS Sheffield????
If you think we would not be in the current crisis if Maggie was in charge or someone like her you are in fantasy land
yes she still makes my blood boil!
Now on the subject of names are you a Judge then or just an egotistical pill0ck?
Did you spend a year on strike to stop the closure of your colliery New Judge?
Did you get battered by thatchers puppet thugs who were armed to the teeth , arriving by the hundreds by chartered jets?
Strong leader ? more like callous and evil.
this will be the woman that came on the news and told us to rejoice in the sinking of the Belgrano will it? but when our own soldiers and sailors were killed she left it to some else to tell us , or did i miss her telling us how sad she was at the loss of life aboard HMS Sheffield????
If you think we would not be in the current crisis if Maggie was in charge or someone like her you are in fantasy land
yes she still makes my blood boil!
Now on the subject of names are you a Judge then or just an egotistical pill0ck?
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Very educated answers, you must be proud.
R1Geezer another ego inflated name.
Fudge Judge what about answering this before you start ignoring me
Now on the subject of names are you a Judge then or just an egotistical pill0ck?
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Science/Questio n586205.html
Very educated answers, you must be proud.
R1Geezer another ego inflated name.
Fudge Judge what about answering this before you start ignoring me
Now on the subject of names are you a Judge then or just an egotistical pill0ck?
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Mrs T was superb. She had bigger balls than any PM since her demise.
The lefties will be blaming her for the state of this country for the next 100 years instead of taking a hard look at Blair and Brown and the softly softly, PC Brigade.
BTW... has Blair had his head surgically removed from GWB's ar*e yet????
The lefties will be blaming her for the state of this country for the next 100 years instead of taking a hard look at Blair and Brown and the softly softly, PC Brigade.
BTW... has Blair had his head surgically removed from GWB's ar*e yet????
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steve5........in 1997 we never had Socialism and Tony Blair realised this at the start.........New Labour just maintained Mrs Thatchers views.
Tony Blair and susequently Gordon Brown have kept Socialism well hidden, as the rich have got richer and the poor have got poorer under a Labour (not Socialist) government.
Yes Mrs T made mistakes.
Tony Blair and susequently Gordon Brown have kept Socialism well hidden, as the rich have got richer and the poor have got poorer under a Labour (not Socialist) government.
Yes Mrs T made mistakes.
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