MARGARET THATCHER 
Margaret Thatcher died this week. She was 87 and was the first and only female Prime Minister of the UK. She also served her country as PM longer than any other in history. In the course of her three terms she brought Great Britain back from the precipice of a socialist hell and made it the fourth largest economy in the world by returning to free market economics. In the course of her tenure in office, she helped President Ronald Reagan to bring down communism in Russia and eastern Europe. She “denationalized” ( her preferred term) British Telecom, British Gas, British Airways, and Rolls Royce among others. She fought a war with Argentina and was a major partner with President Bush in liberating Kuwait from Saddam Hussein reminding him along the way ‘not to go all wobbly“. The Soviets called her the “Iron Lady” and she wore that appellation with pride. The unions hated her guts but she never let their vile vitriol deter her from what she believed was right. She did all of this with elegance and grace while skewering her opponents in the House of Commons like a master fencer who could use either the foil or the saber. She became Lady Thatcher after she left No. 10 Downing Street but then she was always a lady in the best sense of the word. We shall not see her likes again. Good show Maggie!
ERLANDSSON.
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