The Iron Lady

The woman was repulsive and had no redeeming qualities.

She was fortunate to die in irrelevance and with dementia.

Without senility, the Grim Reaper would have likely snatched her sooner.

She's very quotable, admittedly. I use "weak, feeble" often--to my friends dismay.

Oh fuck her.

She was a cunt

I thought this thread would be about that horrible movie by Meryl.

Oh well. I'll see myself out.

Despite the fact they had similar views, Queen Liz supposedly detested Thatcher.

My ex is a former Sandinista guerilla fighter and I was watching an interview with Ms Thatcher and his eyes lit up, and said, "LA Dama de Hierro"! That woman had pizzaz and was tough as nails.

[quote] Despite the fact they had similar views

She was GB’s Phyllis Schlafly…but more successful.

Both implored women to stay home, to make babies and be satisfied with being both breeding stock and subservient, maid-like creatures who should stifle any ambition.

Yet both broads were wildly ambitious women who kneecapped their husbands and were indifferent to families and children in need.

As a gayling I was transfixed by her hair.

She had HUGE hair.

Ugh. Why even exhume this repulsive relic? So happy she’s dead and gone.

[quote] She had HUGE hair.

That hair was not for turning! It had a lot of spray.

R10. Was it all “her” hair?

Like a lacquered cow pie.

GINORMOUS hair

Aqua Net Extra Super Hold is a favorite of Dallas matrons, drag queens, and any thrifty gal who has to walk more than half-a-mile to they typist poo.

^^^ err, pool.

Muriel…for Christ’s sake, include an edit tool!

[quote] She's very quotable, admittedly. I use "weak, feeble" often--to my friends dismay.

One of my colleagues (a strident and bossy Australian woman) used to do that, and finally someone called her out on it in a meeting and said she was trying to imitate Margaret Thatcher. That shut her up good.

What happened with big hair!?

The day she died "Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead" went up to the top of the UK charts. Rightfully so.

[quote]She knew what she wanted and went for it.

That's not a redeeming quality, Hitler knew what he wanted and went after it too.

[quote] they typist poo

If the woman were alive she'd help guide us through so many international crisis. Putin would be found w a poisoned dildo up his and Xi would be made to heel

People like her and her BFF Reagan are spiritual predecessors to the utter shit that the Tories and GOP are today.

Yes, R24. Reagan and Thatcher got what they wanted thru their successors. Brexit and Abortion come to mind. But they didn't care. They did what they to do to put world order in their image

[quote]People like her and her BFF Reagan are spiritual predecessors to the utter shit that the Tories and GOP are today.

That's a word salad.

Only if you have lettuce for brains.

I love Maggie. I didn’t agree with all of her policies but many were just common sense. Brits became totally dependent on the state for everything post-WWII. Thatcher turned the country into an economic superpower.

R25, what do you mean abortion? Thatcher was pro-choice. It was Labour who were historically Eurosceptic and anti-EU. The Tories were pro-EU. Margaret was always suspicious of Germany running Europe and rightfully so - they caused two world wars and bombed Britain. Thatcher did more to topple the Soviets than Reagan ever did.

Margaret’s daughter is a total delight. You’d never know she was Margaret’s daughter.

OP is Andrew Sullivan.

Are you stoned, r26?. I'd change the "are" to "were" but otherwise it sounds just fine.

[quote] we all hate the old lady

There are many Americans quite fond of her, people who wish we had a woman Thatcher-type President. I know from watching interviews of UK citizens that many there liked her too.

Is r28 gay? She hated gay people. But go on and love her - just know that she loathed people like you.

R31, yeah. I adore The Lady Thatcher. The Iron Lady. I love interviews with her. So tough, and eloquent. America needs an Iron Lady.

She had some mouth and eviscerated the first guy with it. And he was pissed. “They'd rather have the poor poorer."

The second guy called her “despicable”. She spit it back at him and he took it with a good natured laugh.

She's a man, baby! All this love for "the iron lady" really is just people who have a daddy fetish in a woman's body.

That's why so many Reugs and Log Cabinet compare her to Reagan, it's that daddy figure they want for President, no someone who is open to shared power and ideas. Daddy tells me what to do and I like it. I don't have to think about difficult questions, daddy just does it for me.

R34, IIRC, that was one of her farewell appearances in parliament so they were all having a bit of fun with it.

She called her gal pal Raine Spencer to get Raine's hairdresser's phone number.

She did scorch earth policies that have destroyed communities and has affects on them to this very day. Fuck her.

The Iron Lady went w her instincts. The woman should be respected cuz she knew how to get things done. Ms Thatcher was scared of no one! That's a political principle we Democrats could learn from.

Torygraph

She was a nasty FK, Like a constipated Ronald Reagan in a wig and pears.

The Iron Lady is so well spoken.

This evil cunt believed in the rule of law except for when it came to her worthless son, who went to trial for tax evasion in the US and then, ended up financing and enthusiastically orchestrating a coup d'état in Equatorial Guinea. So much for traditional values and respecting freedom, not to mention that she destroyed countless people's lives.

Also, her accent was entirely manufactured and her obsession with affecting an aristocratic demeanour was about as authentic as a plastic diamond, grimy shopkeeper's daughter that she was.

[quote] We are a grandmother.

[quote] Is [R28] gay? She hated gay people.

She absolutely did not. She voted to decriminalize homosexuality and her speechwriter was gay. Yes, was Section 28 was fucked up but Thatcher wasn’t the monster you want to make her out to be. FDR put the Japanese in interment camps. Leaders have done fucked up things and great things. It’s not all black and white.

Thatcher would be considered a blue dog Democrat in the US.

This is my favorite photo of That her.

It really captures her spirit

I blame autocorrect.

Is That Her this seasons Anne He He

BBC Radio played "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" when she died.

If one turns the pic at R48 upside down it looks like Meryl Streep playing Thatcher.

R50 is not R20.

Thatcher Thatcher milk snatcher!

[quote] Thatcher did more to topple the Soviets than Reagan ever did.

Uh, no. Couldn't stand the guy but his anti-communist tough talk and Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) intimidated the Russians even more than the west realized at the time. That and the Soviet Union was on life support anyway.

Wonald Weagan.

Politics wise I don't care for her.

But beyond that I kinda love her.

She never met a fascist she didn't like. Like her good friend Pinochet.

Funny how both Thatcher and Reagan survived assassination attempts, both had Alzheimer's, and both messed with school lunches.

She was too harsh on the miners, but boy did she have moxie.

She was the most polarising politician the UK has ever seen, and is still widely loathed. Americans have no idea of the societal damage she caused through her doctrinaire actions.

All of my Brit friends fucking LOATHE Thatcher. It's one topic which when mentioned - you can guarantee will get Brits very worked up and angry. Long diatribes and angry, flashing eyes.

According to them - she was an absolute cunt and left an indelible mark on the UK's psyche and society. The policies she implement were not for the betterment of the UK citizens and have left decades of destruction which may never be fixed because they changed British society so much. So yeah... not a well-liked or respected person.

R44- Is Princess Margaret

She once came here to the states in the 90s or maybe early 2000s I can't really remember for sure for a supermarket opening.

[quote] She once came here to the states in the 90s or maybe early 2000s I can't really remember for sure for a supermarket opening.

?

Did her pussy stink of rust?

Tesco?

She and her administration were major supporters of Britain’s infamous Section 28.

R46, the reason she and 5 other Tories voted to decriminalize homosexuality was the idea that if gays were freed from the threat of prison they would be more willing and comfortable with seeking help for their "condition." Don't kid yourself.

The fact that she had a gay person on her staff means nothing more than she tolerated him because he was useful to her. But don't think for a second that she would have given him an ounce of support if he had decided to influence her to change her stance on gays.

Her support of Section 28 was another byproduct of the anti-gay hysteria during the AIDS crisis. It's a major stain on the U.K. that the law stayed in place as long as it did. When Parliament finally was in a position to overturn the law in 2000 under the Blair government, Thatcher sat next to Lady Young (a major supporter of Section 28) in the House of Lords for the vote.

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[quote] She absolutely did not.

The fuck she didn’t. From her own lips:

"Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay," she said.

"All of those children are being cheated of a sound start in life. Yes, cheated."

Care to respond?

She was a pale faced RODENT 🐗🐗

rest in piss cunt

I was 3 when Thatcher was elected, 15 when she was kicked out and I understand why she was hated but I also appreciate she made a lot of necessary changes to how the country worked.

My family was one of the ones that benefitted.

Glenda Jackson delivered the perfect posthumous take-down. Thatcher was not admirable in the slightest,, and contributed greatly to the UK's decline.

[quote] My family was one of the ones that benefitted.

There's always someone. Council house ownership went up 15% under Thatcher's subsidies. Those people are happy although those days are long gone.

I can stand people like Thatcher who believe the entire world should be run as they see fit, based on their personal moral convictions and childhood experience. But the sad truth is Blair was equally repulsive with his New Labour scam.

*CAN'T stand*

[quote]There's always someone

A lot of people benefitted when the economy improved. They set up their own companies and provided jobs for people. A lot of people benefitted from being able to buy their council house, when they were given shares in the public sector organisation they worked in when privatised.

But of course there were those left behind.

[quote] A lot of people benefitted from being able to buy their council house,

That's what I said, and I gave numbers.

No one is benefitting in that way now. There are always winners in the initial fire sale of state-owned enterprise. But eventually, when market forces are prioritized, a few win too much and your 'left behinds' are the youth paying unsustainable rents in a gig economy who likely will never own much of anything.

Has anyone heard from Mary Decker Slaney lately?

Do you think she'd be willing to recreate her iconic moment from 1984 in 4 years time?

Elvis Costello wrote a lovely song expressing how he felt about her

But now it appears to have dredged up a song that first came out in 1939, and sent it all the way to number ten on the current U.K. charts.

"Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead"—one of the favorite tunes from "The Wizard of Oz"—has now become a favorite song for critics of the late Prime Minster, who died after suffering a stroke Monday at London's Ritz hotel. On that very day, a group of Thatcher detractors created a Facebook page called "Make Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead Number One the Week Thatcher Dies."

According to the Official Charts Company—which compiles rankings from various U.K. charts—there were more than 10,600 downloads of the classic Judy Garland song before midnight on Tuesday. The Guardian also reports that the song needs just 5,000 more downloads before Friday to be one of the week's top three selling singles.

OP confuses misplaced resolve with wisdom.

Wisdom is not getting what you want.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with detachment, commitment, and humanity.

Thatcher was just a cunt.