Was wondering what any of you thought about the Iron Lady's character and policies she pushed through. I can't really comment since she wasn't an American politician and I don't know much about her except for watching the movie Meryl Strep did on her.
Halcyon+On+On
She was proof that a woman could be just as proud, self-serving, exploitative, and all around as nasty an authoritarian as any man could.
Lews
Don't forget pretentious, Hal.
I feel like she did something good, but for the life of me I can't think of it right now.
djshire
I have never seen such joy at a persons death that wasn't officially a dictator and/or terrorist and/or pedophile.
Oh and this, which is from 2008
enydo
Who???
Lagrangian
Her policies are not that different from those of David Cameron's (the current p.m of UK) and/or George Osborne. They believe in the Austrian school of Economics; partial to the U.S -- foes of fiscal libertarians and welfare-state ideologues. Yet, the U.K is, and will remain, a welfare country.
On certain issues, Politics in the U.K are quite different than those of the U.S, but they both have discoverable relations that are well documented. In other words, Obama would have never won an election in the U.K for being too conservative.
Thatcher was divisive and stood for the values of private market practitioners -- abolished unions which brought unpleasant consequences, specially for the common folk of Northern England. Coal miners and factory workers were left unemployed and in conditions comparable to those of Detroit when Thatcher privatized an industry which had been in the hands of an inefficient government. Many jobs left the country.
On the bright side, Thatcher had balls to stand against Gorbachev and the Russian military complex. She brought Britain out of the fog, and criticized the EU for the fiscal embarrassments that we've witnessed in the past couple of years.
pkcRAISTLIN
winston is a clueless twat.
Lagrangian
Australian POS
You hate capitalists because you believe in big government; you're an entitled liberal who always parades around this forum with your pseudo-intellectual b.s
Lagrangian
ing parasite.
pkcRAISTLIN
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Originally posted by Lagrangian
You hate capitalists because you believe in big government; you're an entitled liberal who always parades around this forum with your pseudo-intellectual b.s
As I said, utterly clueless lol. and apparently really butthurt. You DID suffer some kind of mental breakdown didn’t you?
Nrg2Nfinit
communists around the world rejoice.
Lira
quote:
Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit
communists around the world rejoice.
