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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe woman who wrecked Great Britain
Margaret Thatcher and Augusto Pinochet in March, 1994, during a private meeting in Santiago. (Credit: Reuters)
Aging punk rockers, trade-unionists and decent people around the world greeted the news of the passing of Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, with something less than respectful restraint. Millions of people had been looking forward to yesterday for years
Despite their quaint maintenance of a monarchy, British politics are less respectful than ours, and the prime minister is afforded much less regal deference than our president though by the end of her reign Thatcher was always using the royal we so the death of Thatcher has and will be debated in the United Kingdom much more critically than the death of her comrade-in-arms against the postwar liberal consensus Ronald Reagan was in the United States. The more cowardly American press, though, calls her time in office controversial and then moves on to the much more comfortable territory of her extraordinary ambition, forceful personality and skill with a cutting remark. (Our weird class of privileged British expat media leeches have also guided the discussion of the Iron Lady along those lines.)
It would be a crime to allow hagiography and personality to distract from what made her so deeply despised: She ruined Britain.
Lets skip the rise-to-power biographical crap if you care you can see it in the Meryl Streep movie, I assume and get to the point. She intentionally immiserated millions of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish people in order to carry out a liberalization of the British economy that benefited the wealthy at the expense of nearly everyone else. Decades after she left office, the country hasnt recovered.
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/09/the_woman_who_wrecked_great_britain/
Despite their quaint maintenance of a monarchy, British politics are less respectful than ours, and the prime minister is afforded much less regal deference than our president though by the end of her reign Thatcher was always using the royal we so the death of Thatcher has and will be debated in the United Kingdom much more critically than the death of her comrade-in-arms against the postwar liberal consensus Ronald Reagan was in the United States. The more cowardly American press, though, calls her time in office controversial and then moves on to the much more comfortable territory of her extraordinary ambition, forceful personality and skill with a cutting remark. (Our weird class of privileged British expat media leeches have also guided the discussion of the Iron Lady along those lines.)
It would be a crime to allow hagiography and personality to distract from what made her so deeply despised: She ruined Britain.
Lets skip the rise-to-power biographical crap if you care you can see it in the Meryl Streep movie, I assume and get to the point. She intentionally immiserated millions of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish people in order to carry out a liberalization of the British economy that benefited the wealthy at the expense of nearly everyone else. Decades after she left office, the country hasnt recovered.
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/09/the_woman_who_wrecked_great_britain/
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The woman who wrecked Great Britain (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Apr 2013
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2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)1. K&R
drmeow
(5,017 posts)2. Replace "She" with "They" in this statement
"She intentionally immiserated millions of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish people in order to carry out a liberalization of the British economy that benefited the wealthy at the expense of nearly everyone else. Decades after she left office, the country hasnt recovered."
and you could be talking about the Republican party starting with Reagan and a depressing number of Democrats as well!
All the cartoons showing God hiding from or digging at her in heaven are dead wrong. If there is an afterlife that woman along with Reagan and untold others isn't within miles and miles of the pearly gates.
HiPointDem
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