Margaret thatcher

She polarised opinions

She was portrayed as detached yet she had tremendous political nose and used it

She was decisive

She was on top of her brief through burning the midnight oil and working very hard

She had great chemistry with Reagan and Gorbachev

She defined my teenage years
I myself born 1986 so if coin the thrase was one thatcher generation
 
I honestly do believe that much of what Thatcher did was going to happen sooner or later anyway. The union men must have known the game was up before long and that they just were not competitive, throw in the trade winds of the 90s and they would have been destroyed en masse.

I still maintain that the day police men are waving their pay packets at the working man or mounted police are beating them down, it is a terribly sad day for a country. It wasn't the working man's fault himself.
 

Muck Spreader

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Limousin
I suppose it depends on which side if the fence you were on in the eighties as to how you view her. If you where one of the tens of thousands who lost their jobs she was probably the personification of evil and remains as such today. I myself saw her as somewhat of a curates egg with some poor financial decision making, but an amazing drive and desire to keep Britain on the world map economically and politically. No one else would have just gone and chucked the Argie's out of the Falklands despite going against the US's initial wishes. Then go on to handbag the EU into becoming the biggest free trade zone on the planet.
 

arcobob

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Norfolk
There wouldn’t have been a referendum. Farage would have been swatted away!
There may not have been a referendum had she remained in power longer because she would not have put up with all the crap from the EU that Major, Kinnock, Blair and Brown put up with. Farage forced Cameron into a corner that the EU took advantage of but it was their intransigence that put the final nail in the coffin when it came to the vote.
 

juke

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DURHAM
much as I despised the woman n the things she did, at the moment she would have been exactly what is needed right now for the country.
 

arcobob

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Location
Norfolk
Thatcher came to power because the unions (AKA the labour party) were running the country down the drain. Heath was a weak leader who tried to appease them. Anyone who was working in industry at that time will agree that a new approach was required. She gave it.
 

had e nuff

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Durham
don't think there would be too many pitmen, shipyard workers in the north east that thought industry was better off after she finished,
There is a former pitman has a caravan on a site in our local village and gets in the pub. Never worked a day since the pits shut, reckons best thing that happened Maggie shutting the pits. Don't suppose he admits that in his local back home.
 

bluegreen

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Thatcher is probably hated now especially by the young as our education system has been purposely twisted too favour socialism, which is a step away from Marxism which was the Elites grand plan for the future generations...………...well at least it was until Trump appeared on the scene too f*ck it all up for them(y) ………………………….Actually Thatcher on a personal level is very much a model for the future we are going to get, A powerful individual sovereign in charge of her own Kingdom.
 

arcobob

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Norfolk
don't think there would be too many pitmen, shipyard workers in the north east that thought industry was better off after she finished,
The days of the pits and shipyards were numbered. Demand for coal was falling and ships were being built far cheaper elsewhere. Such was the effects of falling demand, unreliable labour force due to restrictive practices that industry would not and could not invest for the future. Once you have lost it it is very difficult to get it back. The Luddites of the industrial revolution were nothing compared to union behaviour in the sixties and seventies.
Of course there were two sides to every dispute but labour relations were so bad and the unions so hell bent on destruction that Thatcher was the only answer.
 

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