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that is not a cite of her saying it, just someone else claiming she did.
do you have an actual cite and quote?
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.
And she was right. Chile is the most vibrant and stable economy in South America. Due to Pinochet.
Only to the 1% transnational corporations, it was a disaster to Chileans.
Only to the 1% transnational corporations, it was a disaster to Chileans.
You are an idiot spewing bullshit.
You aren't even in the same galaxy as "correct."
Believe me there is no Pinochet or Friedman celebrated in Chile.
From 1996:Remember what Thatcher called Nelson Mandela a terrorist?
cite?
From 'terrorist' to tea with the Queen
Nelson Mandela: Once vilified by the Government, he will be acclaimed as a hero this week
that is not a cite of her saying it, just someone else claiming she did.
do you have an actual cite and quote?
The Communist fuck thinks he's being clever. No claim that Mandela was a terrorist, but that his ANC was a terrorist group - which it was. Mandela was in prison and the ANC was under the rule of Winnie. It was as brutal as any IRA or Al Qaeda cell. Murdering Afrikaner and Zulu alike.
Thatcher spoke the truth - which is why piles of shit like Synthia hate her.
The Soviets named her that. The Rightwingers here just love it.R.I.P iron lady you were one of a kind.
I was never a fan, but I'm glad for her it was quick and she didn't suffer. Got to see her in person back in the '80s.
By way of respect, she did deliver this line fairly well....
Margaret Thatcher does the Dead Parrot Sketch - YouTube
I was never a fan, but I'm glad for her it was quick and she didn't suffer. Got to see her in person back in the '80s.
By way of respect, she did deliver this line fairly well....
Margaret Thatcher does the Dead Parrot Sketch - YouTube
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet (Spanish pronunciation: [auˈɣusto pinoˈtʃet]),[note 1] (25 November 1915 10 December 2006) was an army general and dictator of Chile from 1973 until transferring power to a democratically elected president in 1990. He was the commander-in-chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998 and president of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981.[2] He assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973 that overthrew the socialist regime of Salvador Allende and ended civilian rule a week before its 48th anniversary.Believe me there is no Pinochet or Friedman celebrated in Chile.
LOL
Is that what your masters at DailyKOS told you that you think?
dont tug on supermans cape dude.
the people suffered under her and dont remember her fondly
dont tug on supermans cape dude.
the people suffered under her and dont remember her fondly
Oi! Don't speak for me.
I'm a Left leaning female British voter (not currently, I've moved a countries since I last legally voted there). I was born end of 1980 and family lost work due to Thatcher. Can't say I hate her though. Some of the mines should have been closed, some should have been modernized. If the Union Leaders had been reasonable, something could have been worked out. Unions weren't listening to their own members let alone to the will of the nation. I blame the Union Leaders for shutting down British manufacturing. The outcome, was that Thatcher's gov made policies that hurt the working classes.
In hindsight, the choices were down to bankrupting the country or closing down Britain's manufacturing. There should have been more options, but neither side was willing to talk. Better to cut off a rotting limb than to allow it to kill the tree. Unfortunate that is came down to that. The Unions shouldn't have driven England to such desperate measures.
She hurt a lot of people. So did the Unions. Can't say I'm too fond of either of them. There's a lot more I could say, but I'll leave it there.
dont tug on supermans cape dude.
the people suffered under her and dont remember her fondly
Oi! Don't speak for me.
I'm a Left leaning female British voter (not currently, I've moved a countries since I last legally voted there). I was born end of 1980 and family lost work due to Thatcher. Can't say I hate her though. Some of the mines should have been closed, some should have been modernized. If the Union Leaders had been reasonable, something could have been worked out. Unions weren't listening to their own members let alone to the will of the nation. I blame the Union Leaders for shutting down British manufacturing. The outcome, was that Thatcher's gov made policies that hurt the working classes.
In hindsight, the choices were down to bankrupting the country or closing down Britain's manufacturing. There should have been more options, but neither side was willing to talk. Better to cut off a rotting limb than to allow it to kill the tree. Unfortunate that is came down to that. The Unions shouldn't have driven England to such desperate measures.
She hurt a lot of people. So did the Unions. Can't say I'm too fond of either of them. There's a lot more I could say, but I'll leave it there.
The strong economic medicine she administered to a country sickened by inflation, budget deficits and industrial unrest brought her wide swings in popularity, culminating with a revolt among her own cabinet ministers in her final year and her shout of No! No! No! in the House of Commons to any further integration with Europe.
But by the time she left office, the principles known as Thatcherism the belief that economic freedom and individual liberty are interdependent, that personal responsibility and hard work are the only ways to national prosperity, and that the free-market democracies must stand firm against aggression had won many disciples. Even some of her strongest critics accorded her a grudging respect.
At home, Mrs. Thatchers political successes were decisive. She broke the power of the labor unions and forced the Labour Party to abandon its commitment to nationalized industry, redefine the role of the welfare state and accept the importance of the free market.
Abroad, she won new esteem for a country that had been in decline since its costly victory in World War II. After leaving office, she was honored as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven. But during her first years in power, even many Tories feared that her election might prove a terrible mistake.
In October 1980, 17 months into her first term, Mrs. Thatcher faced disaster. More businesses were failing and more people were out of work than at any time since the Great Depression. Racial and class tensions smoldered. Even her close advisers worried that her push to stanch inflation, sell off nationalized industry and deregulate the economy was devastating the poor, undermining the middle class and courting chaos.
At the Conservative Party conference that month, the moderates grumbled that they were being led by a free-market ideologue oblivious to life on the street and the exigencies of realpolitik. With electoral defeat staring them in the face, cabinet members warned, now was surely a time for compromise.
To Mrs. Thatcher, they could not be more wrong. I am not a consensus politician, she said. I am a conviction politician.
More here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/w...rgaret-thatcher-of-britain-has-died.html?_r=0
Odd, I am flat out sure that those deriding her are classless chavs and on these threads ignorant Americans liberals who have no idea what Britain was like in the 1970s.dont tug on supermans cape dude.
the people suffered under her and dont remember her fondly
Oi! Don't speak for me.
I'm a Left leaning female British voter (not currently, I've moved a countries since I last legally voted there). I was born end of 1980 and family lost work due to Thatcher. Can't say I hate her though. Some of the mines should have been closed, some should have been modernized. If the Union Leaders had been reasonable, something could have been worked out. Unions weren't listening to their own members let alone to the will of the nation. I blame the Union Leaders for shutting down British manufacturing. The outcome, was that Thatcher's gov made policies that hurt the working classes.
In hindsight, the choices were down to bankrupting the country or closing down Britain's manufacturing. There should have been more options, but neither side was willing to talk. Better to cut off a rotting limb than to allow it to kill the tree. Unfortunate that is came down to that. The Unions shouldn't have driven England to such desperate measures.
She hurt a lot of people. So did the Unions. Can't say I'm too fond of either of them. There's a lot more I could say, but I'll leave it there.
I have a feeling that most of the people in this thread, especially those who are singing her praises, have little to no idea about British politics or Thatcher's term as Prime Minister. They know she was a conservative and she liked Ronald Reagan, that's probably about all.
