There's a lot of stuff whizzing around the ether quite understandably about this - some of it I find difficult to connect with even though I expected it would be like this.
She was my first experience as a politically aware young person and they were dark days. She started what is now in full train - the dismantling of the welfare model many of us have always taken for granted - no, I'm not talking about the Daily Mail's world of handouts for ne'er do wells or a scrounger's charter, but where basic services are free at the point of delivery and there is a safety net for people, us, anyone, when the chips are down. And you won't know what you've lost till your chips are down. There but for the grace of your god ....
However, I have never in my heart wished anyone dead, nor danced on their grave. That's why I don't believe in capital punishment. Two wrongs don't make a right.
And I've always felt that there's a huge, enormous, massive gender issue here. She wouldn't have got called half the names or attracted half the vitriol she did if she'd been a man, nor I suspect would she have been quite as ruthless and single-minded if she hadn't felt that was the only way she'd be taken seriously ...
That's all I'm saying on the subject.
NB: I bet the Standard were furious they'd chosen this day of all days to hire out their whole front page to Sky ....
LOL @ your sky comment ... I was a teenager when she became this countries first woman prime minister. The eldest of 3 children, my father was employed in the steel industry in South Wales. We were affected directly by the strikes in the 70's and the later slim-lining of the heavy industries, yet I share your views totally.... and I didn't [and still don't] like milk anyway :-)
Straight to the point Isla as I expected!!!! We all have our views but what ever, she was a strong woman!!
A serious ill timed blunder by the evening Standard...perhaps Maggie getting her own back for a long forgotten bad headline!!!! LOL !
On balance, I think you are, largely right. (Although as to the size of the gender issue this is a woman who "...owes nothing to women's lib" and thought "Feminism is poison.") But I still think you are right. Which makes it all the more shameful that I'm out with @fueast
April 8th, 2013
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A serious ill timed blunder by the evening Standard...perhaps Maggie getting her own back for a long forgotten bad headline!!!! LOL !
LOL at the Standard ....
On balance, I think you are, largely right. (Although as to the size of the gender issue this is a woman who "...owes nothing to women's lib" and thought "Feminism is poison.") But I still think you are right. Which makes it all the more shameful that I'm out with @fueast