[the truth]

Originally Posted by lostalex

appreciate where you are. Without Thatcher would you be better off? or did she do a service for her country?

All of her detractors, i'd like to ask you, do you think she made her decisions wanting to harm to your country? or do you think she made decisions based on what she believed would be best for the UK?

I don't believe for a second that she ever wished any harm on the UK or it's people. She did her best under extremely difficult circumstances.

She made decisions based on what she believed at the time were the best decisions for your country.

She wasn't APPOINTED like the house of lords, or BORN INTO IT like the royals.

She was ELECTED.

no she did act out of spite imho a lot of times...the miners strike was perfect example. every single mine closed and the police used to batter the strikers. a sad time. she could at the very least have assessed which were the most economic pits and concentrated the resources into them. instead her ego got in the way and she had to destroy all miners and all mines. crazy

she destroyed all the industries, the steel works in particular too. yes the unions were out of control but they grew out of a need to protect workers rights and improve health and safety measures after the tragedies of aberfan colliery which was allowed by the rich slavemasters to collapse onto of a village school and kill 100+ children....she disamntled british steel works and rebuilt them abroad paying peanuts and owned and run by british millionaires. this practice went unreported by the right wing press

the bills now from the utilities are enslaving the poor and seeing thousands die of cold in the 6th richest nation on earth? what a disgrace. the nhs too was underfunded, though I would argue it is even worse now despite labours billions

she was in bed with murdoch who we now see for what he truly is, she helped create this deregulated financial sector too, then you have HILLSBOROUGH....which is is just enormous example of the cruel leadership she brought to bear.


Im not saying she was all bad, she was right on europe, she was mostly right on the falklands, she did make us richer overall, but it benefitted the few at the top mainly

also the right to buy seemed a fair plan imho but its now lead to a shortage of homes?

Id argue economically she didnt really practice what she preached on small business as the regulations grew and vat grew massively under her to 17.5%
on the world stage it was easy to preach against communism but she and reagan didnt preach against the excesses of the excessive free market either

it just seemed she was a massive power broker for the elite. she just didnt find the right balance , her ego seemed to get in the way

anyway rip maggie