2007-08-24 08:28:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
For the first time since WWII she made British people hate.
They hate her, more bitterly than any other British politician of the last 300 years. Even her own colleagues and friends eventually turned on her and forced her out of office.
They hate her politics, which are still pursued by a few die-hards inside the Conservative party and which make the Conservatives unelectable as a party of government.
They hate her economics which virtually wiped out British industry as a competitive force and gave the country into the hands of the international bankers and financial institutions.
Every major project which Margaret Thatcher supported became a financial disaster even before she got kicked out of office.
They hate her values of envy, selfishness and greed, her divisiveness of society into them and us, and her ruthlessness in attacking the sick and the families of those she was making unemployed.
If there is such a thing as an anti-saint Margaret Thatcher is it. It takes a special kind of person to achieve so much evil in so short a time.
2007-09-01 08:21:42 · answer #1 · answered by doshiealan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three of many things: Faced down the NUM (National Miners' Union) in a year-long strike which was ostensibly about pay and conditions but was intended to lead to mass discontent leading to violent regime change Reformed union procedures to allow the democratic method of secret ballots, lessening the possibility of coercion Formed a triumvirate with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II to engineer the downfall of Soviet communism
2016-05-17 05:49:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The destruction of the Conservative Party.
Withdrawing the defences of the Falkland Islands so that Argentina felt safe to invade.
Increasing V.A.T. from 8% to 15%
2007-08-24 18:11:35 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
She was mentioned in Austin Powers.
"Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day!"
2007-08-24 08:35:35 · answer #4 · answered by Go Bears! 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Allowing members of the IRA die in a hunger strike. Sending the army ( or navy ) to seize the Malvinas after the Argentinian military recovered them .
Adolf Hitler also seized Czechoslovakia arguing the same thing, namely that German citizens lived there .
No much difference between British and nazis.
By the way, it was that wonderful guy, Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain who delivered Czechoslovakia to Hitler in Munich without a fight
2007-08-24 13:04:59 · answer #5 · answered by nadie 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
from the TimesOnline...
Her achievements in changing Britain for the better can never be underestimated. She improved our country immeasurably, in so many different ways, and is quite simply the greatest living Briton. Thanks for eveything Maggie, and I hope you had a great birthday. Of all people, you deserve it. Greg Winterton, London
Much more at web page
2007-08-24 08:36:39 · answer #6 · answered by Indiana Frenchman 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
She recaptured the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians.
2007-08-24 13:53:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Big hair.
2007-09-01 07:56:10 · answer #8 · answered by ta 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋