Mrs T - The good things thread

Ok so at Celestines suggestion here's a thread so those who want to can post tributes or just list the good things about her.


I'll stick my head above the parapet here and start it off with......

She stood for what she believed, whether right or wrong.

[leclerc]

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She was the only female Prime Minister of the UK

[Inca]

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She had twins. Oh and she had the same first name as my Mum.

[gravytrain]

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I think in order to get a real picture of her contribution you need to look at the situation in 1979, three day week, power cuts, unions striking all over the place, Britain named as, "the sick man of Europe".

What the country needed at that time was strong leadership, that is what she provided. I can remember seeing her as she went into number ten for the first time and thinking(along with most others) that at last here was someone who would actually do something and not just talk.

[Sapphire]

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I think we could do with her or someone like her now.

[gravytrain]

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I think we could do with her or someone like her now.

It would certainly be refreshing to see someone in government who stuck to there words, and didn't abandon ship when the going gets rough.

[gravytrain]

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...female-PM.html

By the time Mrs Thatcher won her third mandate in June 1987 she was a world statesman, a go-between for her old friend Ronald Reagan with her new friend Mikhail Gorbachev, and with an eye to winning the Cold War. The part she played in urging Gorbachev into reforms, and into a more moderate attitude towards satellite states in the Soviet bloc, led to the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 and the collapse, almost like a house of cards, of the other Soviet bloc regimes over the next two years

[kanine]

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She had the courage of her convictions which shone through, she was an iceberg of ability in a sea of political chancers who would do and say anything to get elected and then do nothing when they got there. In my book she has the same qualities as Tony Benn, Dennis Skinner in that there is no issue about her views, it is so refreshing when someone articulates integrity of their position, whether you agree with that position or not. She came from a modest background and climbed to the top of the greasiest political pole in the World and stayed there longer than any other MAN in the 20th Century. That alone is an awesome achievement.

[enaid]

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Well apart from her being our first and only lady PM she was also the longest serving in this century.
Although she had private schooling she was from I would say a working class family, her dad owning a grocers shop.
She then was a research chemist, then a barrister, then MP then to the top of the tree.
If you detest what she did as an MP and PM you got to admire her for what she achieved, I know I do.

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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She gave a generation of girls a role model other than Barbie, and teachers of said girls the adage, "Well if Maggie Thatcher can become prime minister, what can you do?"

She stood, visably shaken after a bomb and looked with those steely eyes and said "You do not scare me!"

But most of all, my favourite Maggie quote is "Sir, the question is not wether you like me, it is wether you would give the job to the man you like, or the woman that can get it done!"

[gravytrain]

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I remember seeing her on one of he kids shows on a Saturday morning in the 70s, Noel Edmond I think. She was being interviewed by a group of school children, I cant remember what her post was, junior minister I think. One of the young girls asked her if she thought there would ever be a woman prime-minister, i remember her slightly shrill girlish voice, she replied that she was sure that their would never be a woman prime minister in her life time.

The next time I remember seeing her she had the husky voice we all got to know, she had been through the PR machine , voice coach, hair and make up, ready for greater things. Funny what you remember.

[PlanB]

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I like this thread

[dogtired]

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Well apart from her being our first and only lady PM she was also the longest serving in this century.
Although she had private schooling she was from I would say a working class family, her dad owning a grocers shop.
She then was a research chemist, then a barrister, then MP then to the top of the tree.
If you detest what she did as an MP and PM you got to admire her for what she achieved, I know I do.

I agree she stood up for what she belived in

[ODC]

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She took back the Falklands (with a little help from the Forces)

She Terrorised the terrorists

[PlanB]

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She was the First Lady of the Girl Power movement :behindsofa:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...rst-spice-girl