How bad was Margaret Thatcher?

Question

I was very young when she was in power. She seems to get a mixed reception. When I ask my boss he made her out to be the devil incarnate, but the way my Dad and father-in-law go on about her you would think she was the second coming.

LoL thanx for that mug P. Ive got my ACCA exams next week so Im revising. Ive gotta be up by six as well.

Answer 1

where to start? Margaret thatcher is a conservative. Conservatives are more often than not right wing which means they believe in authority. You may have noticed this in your upbringing, You have learned by your fathers mistakes. You have not been allowed to make your own mistakes and learn from them.Your father believes that healthcare should be paid for this means if you can't pay for it then you do not get any healthcare. Your father believes that the right to buy was a great idea and probably bought your house during thatchers' reign. Your father probably also believes that the less fortunate deserve no better than they get (nothing)Margaret Thatcher was a HellBitchWhoreSlut.She made hundreds of thousands of peoples lives HELL and thats only the people who she made umemployed, then you've got their families. The thousands who where evicted through the Right to Buy scheme-Encouraged to spend spend spend. Although unfortunatly all or a large portion on credit-eg a mortgage, with the interest going sky high leaving hundreds of thousands unable to afford the repayments. Thatcher LOVES privatisation. She sold everything, The gas and electric companies that used to be publicly owned. The train companies- ever complained about th state of them? Yup she sold that. And many other things to. She was a nightmare for freedom. Margaret Thatcher was a cockmunchingbagofshite.The Lady is a Tramp.

Also I meant to say that the only way she is the second coming is if she is the second comeing of the Anti-Christ.

Answer 2

The woman was / is a disaster my main problem with her ideas was she ran a Country as if it were a small business and the great cons that she pulled. I don't know if you are aware of the term " Selling the family silver" well that is what she did, the Post Office (publicly owned) used to be the Phone and the Mail with the profitable phone side subsidising the mail delivery side. The Phone (Telecom) used to give free calls to every one at Christmas. Anyway she carved up the Post Office sold the Telecom division to the public (the people who all ready owned it) and used the money to give more tax breaks to her supporters. then she did the same trick with the Gas, Water, Electric, Railways. Each of these utility's are now less efficient and far more expensive than when they were publicly owned. the spate of Railway accidents with people dieing can be laid fairly and squally down to her insane idea of privatising British Rail. The cow did more damage to this country than the German Air force in WW II.

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Answer 4

As a real person, Margaret Thatcher was a very sexy and foxy lady. She had impeccible manners and all the social graces usually associated with the upper middle classes.

As Prime minister, she was the strongest since Winston Churchill.

Most people did not like Margaret Thatcher one little bit.

There was something lost in translation when they called her the Iron Lady. What the Russians had actually said was that she was like an Iron Maiden - a machine used in torture chambers, full of sharp blades, in which the victim was left to slowly bleed to death.

It was Margaret Thatcher how finally admitted that UK is not a democracy but an elective dictatorship - true.

Did she do any good while PM? This largely depends upon your own political point of view. She curbed the unions, closed the coal mines and generally went about trying to shut down everything which she thought of as even remotely socialist. She forced the Building Societies to go public and become banks which led to the crash of the housing market, which led to hundreds of thousands of people facing negative equity (their house not worth what they were paying) and the forced resale of hundreds of thousands of houses owned by people who could no longer afford to pay their mortgages.

During her time in office, almost 20 years, she precided over three major crashes of the stock market.

Margaret Thatcher was entirely responsible for everything that is now wrong with out nation and people. She introduced a self and me, me, me, culture to Britain. A former PM the late Harold Macmillain, stood against her in the House of Lords, for what he called, "selling the family siliver." Oh boy, was he right. The major industries of UK, the mines, the riailways, the water, the gas and electricity, were all held and owned by the nation as nationalised industries. The profits from the railways alone paid for the National Health Service - all gone.

The result of all of this is that we now pay higher than ever prices for everything and higher taxes - no matter who is in power.

Answer 5

Margaret Thatcher was a very strong character in a time when her colleagues were weak therefore she stood out as very special.
Her policies were bold and radical after years of boring politics.
The young were very exited by her pro-active attitudes to sweep away the old and bring in new thinking and have an individualist view in life. (I was one of them)
She created the YUPPIES, young upwardly mobile all with a BMW 3 series and mobile phone and intolerant to the old ideas.
In retrospect she actually was wrong and fatally damaged the British society and the culture, what we are seeing today in the country is the Thatcher legacy.
She sold the countries assets to her friends in the stock market for peanuts and gave all her colleagues a seat on the board of those privatised companies.
She connected her son with the Saudis and he became a major arms trader.
What she did to the miners and the coal industry was unforgivable and today we wish we had the coal industry as the price of oil has soared and running out.

Answer 6

When she was Education Minister she became known as the Milk Snatcher because she stopped Schools giving out Milk to Children.
Then she became the first Woman PM and Privatised the Utilities,Gas , Electric, P O , BT , Water, Railways.

Then she Shut down all the Gas and Electricity Showrooms and I took Early Retirement and Voluntary Redundancy from British Gas at 55years in 1992............She had given the Right to Buy, I had already bought my Council House and still had a Mortgage.............who wanted anybody at the age of 55..........35 year old's were having enough trouble trying to get Jobs.....so they didn't want a 55 year old...........I think she was a Terrible woman.

It is also my belief that the Current PM is her .........Love Child...he is nearly as bad as she was.

Answer 7

Left wing socialists like to reduce this question to a matter between the rich and poor. It is more complex than that.
To review Mrs Thatcher's performance it is instructive to look at the state of Britain before she was elected.
Britain was commonly referred to as 'The sick man of europe'
Unions were totally out of control and we were heading towards a state of communism - mob rule. Unemployment was at an all time high. This was the result of many awful years of labour mis-management.
Something had to be done and it just came down to a matter of administering some painful and unpleasant medicine. Mrs Thatcher had the vision, courage and personality to make it happen.
She smashed the unions and lifted the economy. That is probably her greatest contribution. She stood strong against Europe, insisting that Britain maintain her sovereignity. (Tony Blair subsequently capitulated)
Whilst it is true that the mines have closed (but the coal is still there) we are no longer in thrall to the likes of Arthur Scargil who wanted to hold the entire country to ransom.
Whilst it may not be strategically important she took back the Falklands after Argentine invaded. A labour government would probably be still negotiating. This action earned us some self respect and some international respect too.
The pound grew strong again and in short Britain went back to work.

Make no mistake. The present government is just riding the wave or prosperity that her policies began - but they are spending the money with ever increasing numbers of non productive civil servants and government quangos.

Mrs Thatcher, like Ronald Reagan believed that government should be small. The current mob like to increase it to intrude in to every aspect of our lives.
I believe the cycle will be repeated.

Answer 8

If you were rich, Thatcher was indeed the second coming. She reduced income tax for the rich while raising it for the poor. By way of poll tax. Whereby someone like Prince Charles with all his Palaces pays exactly the same as his poorly paid butler.

A great injustice which we are still paying for, where the gap between the rich and poor gets wider everyday. And New Labour has added to the problem rather than redressing it.

Answer 9

A lot of people disliked her,because she was tough and she didn't take any messing about.
If she was in power now,we certainly wouldn't be the nanny state we are now.
There would've been a cull on immigrants entering our country.
There certainly wouldn't be any of the political correctness crap that there is now.
Our hospitals wouldn't be under threat like they are now,and we never had so many stealth taxes,whilst she was in power.
We need another leader like Margaret Thatcher,to bring our once wonderful country back to the top,where it should be.

Answer 10

She destroyed manufacturing industry, destroyed 'society' and created the selfish 'all for one' attitude prevalent today. But perhaps worst of all she instituted the privatisation of all public utilities. We, as citizens and tax payers, are now paying a high price for her folly. The only people to gain from this action have been wealthy shareholders and financial institutions.