RIP Margaret Thatcher

just saw it on yahoo.

http://gma.yahoo.com/margaret-thatcher--britain-s--iron-lady--prime-minister--dies-120034251.html

Europe needs more of her. Great leader.

 

Without question the most influential British prime minister of the post-war era, and the most divisive political figure anywhere in that time. You simply do not find very many British people with a neutral opinion of her; she is either loved or loathed. Either way, she pushed through changes in Britain that would have been unfathomable before her.

I'll be very curious to see what her enemies have to say in the wake of this; I have a feeling that there will be more than a few who will not be gentle.

 

She was great in those Bond movies. RIP.

 

I'd put Atlee first - if only because it was his Britain Mrs. Thatcher spent her public life trying to dismantle.

 

She did an excellent job covering up and lying about the Hillsborough tragedy. It took 24 years for the truth to finally emerge.

 

A friend of mine asked, are any of the Spitting Image characters still alive? And another answered: Yes. Phil Collins.

 

Lord Palmerston! Pitt. The. Elder!

But yeah, I see your point. I think, though, that there's something to be said for the fact that in many regards Britain led the way on beginning to dismantle those post-war safety nets, and that was undoubtedly Thatcher's work. We've seen recently just how lasting the effects of her and Reagan's time has been.

 

Football supporters, by and large, would fall into the category of people who didn't particularly like her. But then those who were supporters in the 1980s were by and large in other categories to which that applied as well, which was a massive part of the hooligan culture.

 

RIP Iron Lady

 

www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/world/europe/former-prime-minister-margaret-thatcher-of-britain-has-died.html?hp

 

Any attempt at honoring her through a moment of silence at Prem matches will not end well.