Mrs T - The good things thread

[IanM]

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Playing the hostage in a live fire exercise with the SAS and not flinching throughout! Not many men would do that, especially not any of the powder puffs we have as MP's nowadays!

[ODC]

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Defeating Arthur Scargill

Bringing Nissan to the North East

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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thought of another good un.

When she asked the Queen permission to do something, she was actually asking permission, not telling her well im going to do this anyway.

she joked about her reputation as the Iron Lady of politics and took the pi$$ out of herself.

When asked by a kiddy to explain something the kid didnt understand, the presenter took over and in a very Billy and Johnny way explained it. Mrs T rolled her eyes and smiled at the kid and said "Would you like me to explain it properly, or him to keep patronising you?"

I was sitting waiting with baited breath for her to raise her handbag and belt him, issuing the Capt Mainwaring phrase "Stupid Boy!"

[Angry Cat]

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Agree, we need another like her now...!

[CleverClogs]

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As Cameron declared today in Parliament, "She made Britain grate again".

And Britain has been grating ever since.

[CleverClogs]

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

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

I was not aware she sang so badly.

[gravytrain]

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If a man said this it would be sexist, she had a point though.

"It's a woman's ability to stick with the job and get on with the it, when everyone else walks off and leaves it."

Lots more gems here;

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...hatcher_2.html

[gravytrain]

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Apparently in 11 years she only lost one parliamentary vote. That was on Sunday trading.

She also helped invent/develop soft scoop ice cream.

[CleverClogs]

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She helped to invent modern commercial ice-cream, whereby non-milk fat (lard, dripping, suet, hydrogenated colza oil, trans fats or whatever) is added to the mix so it may be whipped vigorously. The excuse is that it "improves the texture", but the truth is that the additives are cheaper than dairy cream and also commercial ice-cream may contain as much as 50% air - and the air is obviously a lot cheaper than the other ingredients.

[CleverClogs]

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She tried to reduce childhood obesity and to bring back rickets - the traditional deformity of poorer children - by snatching their break-time 190ml ration of cows' milk.

Decades later, that milk has still not been found.

[gravytrain]

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She tried to reduce childhood obesity and to bring back rickets - the traditional deformity of poorer children - by snatching their break-time 190ml ration of cows' milk.

Decades later, that milk has still not been found.

LOL yes I can see today's kids queuing up for their bottle of lukewarm semi curdled milk.
The return of rickets is more due to dietary fads lack of sunlight and vitamin d, than lack of the daily pinta, most kids prefer a coke these days unfortunately.

Your right about the ice cream though I always preferred Mr Whippy, good old Maggie.

[vault]

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Hmmm. All this nostalgia is making me quite teary. Bless her for de-regulating the financial markets for which we all suffer now and taking the credit for the fact that north sea oil exists and peaked in the mid 80s to early 90s. What a star.

[gravytrain]

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Keeping on topic in spirit with the title of this thread.

It is a little known fact that Magge was responsible for the word handbag, being also listed as a verb in the OED.
To be hand-bagged is to be manipulated and cajoled into a decision without actually resorting to physical force. It was coined by a junior minister.

[gravytrain]

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http://www.studymode.com/essays/Marg...er-927964.html

"Margaret Thatcher's political career has been one of the most remarkable of modern times she served as British Prime Minister for more than eleven years (1979-90), a record unmatched in the twentieth century.
During her term of office she reshaped almost every aspect of British politics, reviving the economy, reforming outdated institutions, and reinvigorating the nation's foreign policy. She challenged and did much to overturn the psychology of decline, which had become rooted in Britain since the Second World War, pursuing national recovery with striking energy and determination. In the process, Margaret Thatcher became one of the founders, with Ronald Reagan, of a school of conservative conviction politics, which has had a powerful and enduring impact on politics in Britain and the United States and earned her a higher international profile than any British politician since Winston Churchill. By successfully shifting British economic and foreign policy to the right, her governments helped to encourage wider international trends which broadened and deepened during the 1980s and 1990s, as the end of the Cold War, the spread of democracy, and the growth of free markets strengthened political and economic freedom in every continent"

[gravytrain]

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Cameron Tribute

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...cameron-speech

Mr Speaker I beg to move the motion. In the long history of this parliament, Margaret Thatcher was our first – and so far only – woman prime minister. She won three elections in a row, serving this country for a longer continuous period than any prime minister for more than 150 years. She defined – and she overcame – the great challenges of her age and it is right that parliament has been recalled to mark our respect.
Mr Speaker, it is also right that next Wednesday, Lady Thatcher's coffin will be draped with the flag she loved. It will be placed on a gun carriage and taken to St Paul's Cathedral and members of all three services will line the route.
This will be a fitting salute to a great prime minister.
Today, we in the House of Commons are here to pay our own tributes to an extraordinary leader – and an extraordinary woman. What she achieved – even before her three terms in office – was remarkable. Those of us who grew up when Margaret Thatcher was already in Downing Street can sometimes fail to appreciate the thickness of the glass ceiling she broke through: from a grocer's shop in Grantham to the highest office in the land.