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From 1996:Remember what Thatcher called Nelson Mandela a terrorist?![]()
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From 'terrorist' to tea with the Queen
Nelson Mandela: Once vilified by the Government, he will be acclaimed as a hero this week
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From 1996:Remember what Thatcher called Nelson Mandela a terrorist?![]()
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Challenges to leadership and resignationWhich is why in three general elections, she won all three.
The British never voted her out of office.
See also: Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 1990
Thatcher was challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by the little-known backbench MP Sir Anthony Meyer in the 1989 leadership election.[174] Of the 374 Conservative MPs eligible to vote 314 voted for Thatcher and 33 for Meyer.[174] Her supporters in the party viewed the result as a success, and rejected suggestions that there was discontent within the party.[174]
During her premiership Thatcher had the second-lowest average approval rating, at 40 percent, of any post-war Prime Minister. Polls consistently showed that she was less popular than her party.[175] A self-described conviction politician, Thatcher always insisted that she did not care about her poll ratings, pointing instead to her unbeaten election record.[176]
Thatcher in 1990
Opinion polls in September 1990 reported that Labour had established a 14% lead over the Conservatives,[177] and by November the Conservatives had been trailing Labour for 18 months.[175] These ratings, together with Thatcher's combative personality and willingness to override colleagues' opinions, contributed to discontent within the Conservative party.[178]
On 1 November 1990 Geoffrey Howe, the last remaining member of Thatcher's original 1979 cabinet, resigned from his position as Deputy Prime Minister over her refusal to agree to a timetable for Britain to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.[177][179] In his resignation speech on 13 November, Howe commented on Thatcher's European stance: "It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find the moment that the first balls are bowled that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain."[180] His resignation was fatal to Thatcher's premiership.[181]
The next day, Michael Heseltine mounted a challenge for the leadership of the Conservative Party.[182] Opinion polls had indicated that he would give the Conservatives a national lead over Labour.[183] Although Thatcher won the first ballot, Heseltine attracted sufficient support (152 votes) to force a second ballot.[184] Thatcher initially stated that she intended to "fight on and fight to win" the second ballot, but consultation with her Cabinet persuaded her to withdraw.[178][185] After seeing the Queen, calling other world leaders, and making one final Commons speech, she left Downing Street in tears. She regarded her ousting as a betrayal.[186]
Thatcher was replaced as Prime Minister and party leader by her Chancellor John Major, who oversaw an upturn in Conservative support in the 17 months leading up to the 1992 general election and led the Conservatives to their fourth successive victory on 9 April 1992.[187] Thatcher favoured Major over Heseltine in the leadership contest, but her support for him weakened in later years.[188]
Margaret Thatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I was standing outside Westminster when Thatcher drove by after resigning.
She stood for election three times nationally and won every time. She was the longest continuous serving PM during the century up until she left office.
So the idea that Maggie was hated by the British is garbage.
Wasn't the trash the result of a strike?Why would anyone bother defending Thatcher's record. Her record is history and is available to anyone interested. There is precious little to argue about. It speaks for itself.
Are you referring to the 10% unemployment that she earned while trying to get inflation down to 5%?
Funny how Maggie's 10% is just fine and dandy, but Obama's 7.2 is simply atrocious.
And Maggie didn't come in during a total financial collapse.![]()
No, just dead bodies piling up and squares of trash everywhere.
That's the legacy of the British left before Blair.
Her record:Its funny reading these revisionist leftists crow about how awful Maggie was. They're the same ones gloating over the GOP predicting victory in 2012.
Well, a similar thing happened in the 1992 UK election, the first one after Maggie stepped down. The polls had Labour winning, and I watched the BBC predict an election victory for Labour leader Neil Kinnock based on exit polling. But as results rolled in, it turned out that the Conservatives were going to win a fourth consecutive victory under John Major. The BBC later concluded that the British thought Labour so not ready to govern, many fibbed at the exit polls, saying they voted for Labour when they in fact voted for the Tories.
Yeah, Maggie was so bad, according to the leftist hacks, that not only did she win three elections in a row, the Tories won yet again after Maggie left at record lows at the polls.
The Soviets named her that. The Rightwingers here just love it.R.I.P iron lady you were one of a kind.
THE GUARDIAN is nothing but a rag equal to huffington post in USA .
i was born in London lived there until 1977 and moved here because of the economic mess in the UK during that time ,
Margaret Thatcher snatched Britain from the jaws of socialism , gave us back our pride defended the folklands from a bullying foriegn power who thought we were weak ,bought a corrupt union to its knees .
when she left public office the unemployment rate was 5.5 %
She was the first lady prime minister the country ever had ,served the longest and was the greatest .
may she rest in peace .
Yeah, like Thatcher drunkenly drove off a bridge (highly suspect story, seeing as though women around the Kennedy klan seem to end up dead for nefarious reasons, or raped), and then ran away like a coward, leaving a woman to drown.She keeps rambling about Bill Clinton and how we will act. Apparently she lives 8n the multiverse where she can see all things at all times.
I for one will show respect when ANY of our former leaders die. That's what makes me an American rather than a petulant hack
Past is prologue.
Rain at Kennedy Funeral: Tears or something else?
The good thing about Mr Kennedy's death![]()
http://www.usmessageboard.com/law-a...have-killed-fewer-than-ted-kennedy-s-car.html
http://www.usmessageboard.com/education/86195-the-real-ted-kennedy.html
Feel the love.![]()
With British Leyland, Tony Benn introduced his treasured plan of industrial democracy to the shopfloor. That meant union shop stewards virtually controlled the factories and, simultaneously, product quality nosedived. The British disease spread like a virus and for British Leyland it was death by a thousand cuts as multiple small strikes sapped its lifeblood.
In that same year, the company lost 5m man hours to strike action, doubling to 10m in 1971.
Left's sick 'celebration' of Baroness Thatcher's death
Two women arrested for burglary after being found inside a shop
Barnardos shop front had been smashed in Brixton
Crowds were seen throwing missiles at officers
Six police officers were injured during in Bristol during street party
One policeman seriously injured after being pelted with bottles and cans
Glasgow: More than 300 people attended impromptu street party
Wasn't the trash the result of a strike?Are you referring to the 10% unemployment that she earned while trying to get inflation down to 5%?
Funny how Maggie's 10% is just fine and dandy, but Obama's 7.2 is simply atrocious.
And Maggie didn't come in during a total financial collapse.![]()
No, just dead bodies piling up and squares of trash everywhere.
That's the legacy of the British left before Blair.
If true, England should be in mourning.
They lost a great Stateswoman.
In the 1970s, before Thatcher, electricity blackouts were common.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Your 1970s: Strikes and blackouts
The former miners leader Arthur Scargill has lost his fight to have the National Union of Mineworkers pay the rent on his London flat for the rest of his life.
Mr Scargill, 74, had argued that he signed a contract which entitled him to a property throughout his retirement.
But the union disputed the claim and took the decision all the way to the High Court.
And today Mr Justice Underhill ruled in the National Union of Mineworkers' (NUM) favour stating that no such agreement had been made.
Thatcher believed in evolution and that climate change is caused my man...gasp.THE GUARDIAN is nothing but a rag equal to huffington post in USA .
i was born in London lived there until 1977 and moved here because of the economic mess in the UK during that time ,
Margaret Thatcher snatched Britain from the jaws of socialism , gave us back our pride defended the folklands from a bullying foriegn power who thought we were weak ,bought a corrupt union to its knees .
when she left public office the unemployment rate was 5.5 %
She was the first lady prime minister the country ever had ,served the longest and was the greatest .
may she rest in peace .
Margaret Thatcher WAS a Socialist.
Margaret Thatcher, staunch Pinochet supporter and friend, dies
The Iron Lady maintained a close relationship with the Chilean dictator following his 17-year reign.
Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady of Britain who adamantly defended and praised her friend, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for bringing democracy to Chile, died following a stroke on Monday. She was 87.