Maggy Thatcher dead

[hoplitejoe]

Link to video.

Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.

Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."

Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.

Baroness Thatcher, born Margaret Roberts, became the Conservative MP for Finchley, north London in 1959, retiring from the Commons in 1992.

Having been education secretary, she successfully challenged former prime minister Edward Heath for her party's leadership in 1975.

She won general elections in 1979, 1983 and 1987.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22067155

No matter what you think of her, she certainly had a large impact on Britain and the world.

 

[Crezth]

RIP. This will hurt Obama politically.

 

[Masada]

RIP. The NHS finally got her.

 

[Darkflight]

RIP. This will hurt Obama politically.

I loathe RIP threads and want to see them die, but that one made me lol...

 

[useless]

I know more than a few people up here in Scotland who will be celebrating today.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[_random_]

Wait, so how happy are we allowed to be in this thread?

 

[hoplitejoe]

i was going for the "clear I am not that upset at her death but not openly gloating" aproach

 

[bhsup]

Rest in Peace, great lady. The world owes you a debt that can never be repaid for your part in ensuring freedom won the cold war. You will be greatly missed.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

My facebook feed has become flooded "ding dong the witch is dead" statuses and the like, why do I feel I am in minority of people willing to put political difference aside for a basic respect for the dead, or at least recently deceased?

RIP Mrs Thatcher

 

[Thedrin]

Made significant changes to the UK, probably for the better in the long run. You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Has enemies. RIP.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

What do the (hardline) Argentines and Falklanders think?

 

[Carras Dad]

de mortuis... ah, who am i kidding...

http://www.maggiethatcher.com/products.html

 

[Carras Dad]

Link to video.

 

[Zelig]

No matter what you think of her

I have no opinion of her.

 

[Truronian]

I do not like many of the things Thatcher implemented, but she has not been a political influence for some time now. Both the adulation and the vitriol that have sprung up today leave a sour taste in my mouth.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

de mortuis... ah, who am i kidding...

http://www.maggiethatcher.com/products.html

charming...

 

[Ajidica]

Regardless of your views on her politics, she was a very influential person in both world politics and British politics.

On a different note, it seems like our Cold War relics are dropping like flies. Who is left? I can think of Gorby, Carter, the Castros, and I'm stumped.

 

[Carras Dad]

charming...

well, at least i didnt start a war.


Link to video.

 

[Mise]

I'm really not that fussed one way or the other tbh, but since the day people die is the day that everyone else sounds off about them I might as well give it a go. I didn't admire her politics but there were things about her that I did admire (as with anyone). I think that Britain as a whole was a better place for her PM-ship, but it could have achieved what it did without all the crappy, harmful policies that she also imposed. But then, this is true of the vast majority of politicians. Even people like Chavez: the average Venezuelan probably lives a better life now than before Chavez, but it's easy to imagine a better president than Chavez, who could have achieved a whole lot more and destroyed a whole lot less.

I'm obviously not happy that she died. I'm happy Hitler died, but she's not Hitler.