thatcher

You also see that it was not confined to the US as Thatcher was doing similar things in the UK.

A shared currency is just a bad idea and that's something the English realized early on, or at least the Thatcher administration did.

For a bit of historical perspective, Margaret Thatcher ended up being always lucky.

The miners strike has become a popular myth of how Thatcher destroyed the workers but the NUM has a lot to answer for.

- Thatcher is one of the best post-war Prime Ministers, together with Clement Atlee, depending on your politics.

As for Thatcher - charisma hardly maps to competence, and many of Thatcher's protectees and associates were - let's say - questionable company for a moral leader, with some extremely unsavoury hobbies that are being investigated by the police.

Margaret Thatcher was also a chemist, I believe.

>>As for Thatcher - charisma hardly maps to competence, and many of Thatcher's protectees and associates were - let's say - questionable company for a moral leader, with some extremely unsavoury hobbies that are being investigated by the police.

The miners strike is always blamed on Thatcher but Scargill has a lot to answer for - previous strike ballots had rejected strike action so the union decided to call a strike without a ballot.

There’s this social view that short sleeping is a good thing and should be encouraged – we’re always hauling out the example of Margaret Thatcher and top CEOs who don’t need much sleep.

I think Thatcher took the wrong approach but given with the way the unions in the 70's had tried to bring down governments I don't think she had much choice but to face them down.

The corrupt, undemocratic super state the EU, inventors of the data retention law and other shit, strives for is a far worse prospect than a UK that has survived Thatcher and will survive Cameron because at least it's still a democracy.

To quote Margaret Thatcher: "You soon run out of other peoples money"

The NSA might say what the IRA told Margaret Thatcher, "Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once.

), the Mark Thatcher operation to try to "regime change" Equatorial Guinea, a small, oil-rich country with a non-democratic government.

They are in temporary housing not because housing can't be found, but because doing so means spending over the "wrong" budgets, and spending too much to replenish council housing that was sold off cheaply starting with Thatcher and that now would cost a fortune to replace because you'd be competing with quite wealthy people willing to stretch far to avoid being displaced further out of the centre of town.

Thatcher's government failure was to repair the communities after pit closures but encourage new business etc to set up there.

He wasn't as bad as James Callaghan, John Major, or - IMO - Margaret Thatcher.

Thatcher stopped local authorities constructing homes (then half the total) and even private building has declined as its so hard to build.