Margaret Thatcher

[jboy]

Then she is a damn great actress! Lol

C'mon cornfed, you gotta give the broad some credit for that. Bet you can't perform as well as she did, no matter which puppet master plays your strings.

[xiongmao]

Feel a bit embarrassed about all the negativity surrounding her. The 70's were grim. Really she made Britain great again.

I guess I'm one of Thatchers children - I got on my bike, worked hard and now I'm living in a city she where she would applaud the private enterprise!

[OutWest]

Feel a bit embarrassed about all the negativity surrounding her. The 70's were grim. Really she made Britain great again.

I guess I'm one of Thatchers children - I got on my bike, worked hard and now I'm living in a city she where she would applaud the private enterprise!

Yes, the degenerate deluded socialists of Britain were really upset when she just appeared to be ready to pop their bubble.
But the worries were for naught, Britain continued its decline. Her Euro-skeptic opinions were mocked at the time, but events have proven here exactly right in that regard.

[Cornfed]

Feel a bit embarrassed about all the negativity surrounding her. The 70's were grim. Really she made Britain great again.

I guess I'm one of Thatchers children - I got on my bike, worked hard and now I'm living in a city she where she would applaud the private enterprise!

Didn't they have genuine fullish employment, low private debt and reasonable housing prices in the 70s? That sounds pretty good to me. Subsequently most actual productive workers in Britain were fired from their jobs, crushing levels of debt were used as a social control mechanism and the economy became based largely on real estate ponzi schemes and financial fraud. Why is that so great?

[Cornfed]

The 80s are also when it should have become apparent that the PTB wanted nothing less than the physical extinction of the English as a race. Selling state assets to foreign corporations, flooding the country with immigrants, putting most real working men out of work, suppressing the English birthrate with feminism and making sure most people were too poor and indebted to have children etc. If this is allowed to continue then in 100 years time the English race will be the stuff of legend. It is incredible that genocidal criminals like Thatcher have been able to live out a normal lifespan without being brought to justice.

BTW, what happened to the last post in this thread? It was a goodie.

[Brazor]

Really she made Britain great again.

Don't be stupid. Britain was then (as it is now) a lost, sick nation. It has been so since at least the end of the Second World War.

The sad fact is: Britain was PATHETIC that it needed a woman to lead the nation. Britain had fallen so low in fact, that by the time Thatcher rose to power in the 1970s, a Conservative Party leader could no longer be male, and at the same time brave, resolute -- or even masculine.

At war's end, Britain had lost its empire, and became just another pitiful, small nation. It only wanted to survive. So it offered to be America's loyal subordinate, in exchange for security.

The arrangement suited Britain nicely. Comfortably secure, it discarded purpose and foresight. It indulged itself in the new modernity of the post-war era, adopting trendy liberalism with pretentious zeal. And over the decades, the new liberalism bore fruit, as Britain's men abjectly bowed to their women, while non-European immigrants swamped the country. With each new liberal reform, Britain's men had surrendered their masculinity that much more.

This is the setting in which Thatcher became prime minister. She is basically praised for having been what an ordinary British man should have been, but failed to be. She filled the vacuum because the men around her were tepid and corrupt. She is lauded for condemning feminism as a "poison," but who else would have done the same? Not her male colleagues, that's for sure. They were cowardly, emasculated wimps -- just like the current male leadership in Britain today.

Far from symbolizing advance or progress, Thatcher's leadership only reminds us what results when a country forfeits its integrity, for short-term survival.

[gsjackson]

She was a relatively libertarian figure who was right for her time period. She helped support Reagan against the Soviet Union so we ultimately prevailed.

She was hand-picked and groomed to be the Tory leader back in the 70's, but she grew to be a bit of a bully with her male underlings. See the movie The Iron Lady to get a fuller picture of Thatcher.

No one is perfect but I give her a general thumbs up.

I'm not sure what there is to approve of. Thatcher was the figurehead of a regime that de-industrialized Britain, blamed the victims for their own marginalization and removed regulations from the financial sector that had been preventing them from stealing everything. Meanwhile, small businesses were regulated to death.Transferring wealth from ordinary people who were actually producing useful stuff to parasitical banksters doesn't seem so great. Also feminism, political correctness, the mass immigration of genetic trash and other disasters were really cranked up during the 80s.

+1. Whatever you think of her reactionary theatrics -- and who doesn't like a little rhetoric about tradition, self-reliance, etc. -- her policies were absolutely disastrous in their effect, the beginning of the end.

[RobinHood]

One of the reasons the UK has some of the worst women in the world is because financially as a group they have benefited the most since the 1980s.

Their dating value is "off the scale" as they have good jobs, wealthy parents, a good social security system and loads of men chasing them with money....ironically although Thatcher was no feminist, her policies transformed Britain into an extremely wealthy country that has spread wealth, especially towards women.

Whether you supported Thatcher or not, this is her legacy, good for women, but not good for your average British male (who has no dating value now). We are all Thatchers children now.

[Cornfed]

One of the reasons the UK has some of the worst women in the world is because financially as a group they have benefited the most since the 1980s.

Yes, the corporate whore sector really expanded along with most parasitical "administration". I don't know how people rationalize thinking Thatcher stood for getting ahead through hard work and productivity when most men doing just that were fired and the money showered on parasitical bullshit artists and their filthy whores.

[OutWest]

She was a relatively libertarian figure who was right for her time period. She helped support Reagan against the Soviet Union so we ultimately prevailed.

She was hand-picked and groomed to be the Tory leader back in the 70's, but she grew to be a bit of a bully with her male underlings. See the movie The Iron Lady to get a fuller picture of Thatcher.

No one is perfect but I give her a general thumbs up.

I'm not sure what there is to approve of. Thatcher was the figurehead of a regime that de-industrialized Britain, blamed the victims for their own marginalization and removed regulations from the financial sector that had been preventing them from stealing everything. Meanwhile, small businesses were regulated to death.Transferring wealth from ordinary people who were actually producing useful stuff to parasitical banksters doesn't seem so great. Also feminism, political correctness, the mass immigration of genetic trash and other disasters were really cranked up during the 80s.

+1. Whatever you think of her reactionary theatrics -- and who doesn't like a little rhetoric about tradition, self-reliance, etc. -- her policies were absolutely disastrous in their effect, the beginning of the end.

Britain was doomed long before Thatcher came along- that much should be obvious. A social welfare state that had no real industries that could compete in the world- crappy cars that no one wanted, expensive coal, a collapsing ship-building industry...it's a long list. And what...it has gotten better since then?. Oh, the "financial sector", as in running a den of thieves where the government skims the profits. Of course, all of this, that began in the early 1900's never would have taken place at all if Thatcher had not been PM in the 80s.

[Cornfed]

Oh, the "financial sector", as in running a den of thieves where the government skims the profits.

Yes, the transformation of Britain from a production based economy to a fraud based economy is Thatcher's main legacy.

[OutWest]

Oh, the "financial sector", as in running a den of thieves where the government skims the profits.

Yes, the transformation of Britain from a production based economy to a fraud based economy is Thatcher's main legacy.

That process was long in the making much earlier than Thatcher. By the time Thatcher came along, manufacturing in Britain was already going down the toilet. Shipbuilding was going away, they made crappy cars no one wanted, and their coal was to expensive to compete(As in cost of extraction) I cannot think of ONE single healthy industry in Britain at that time, or even years earlier. This was not some new bright idea Maggie dreamed up- she was just one more cog in the gears. People keep on talking about how she ruined British industry, as if they has some big competitive manufacturing sector. It was already ruined and doomed years before she showed up. Industry in Britain was the feeble support system for a burgeoning socialist state and it was failing fast.

By contrast, Germany has a social contract that some would call socialist- be that as it may, but the huge difference is that Germans actually think you have to be productive when you are not on the dole in some way...hence high German productivity to this day. The British economy was fraud based for years in the sense that is was based on a Ponzi scheme (like much of the US) and the financial sector's growth seems to be the final terminal stage.