Posted on 09/13/2007 10:02:06 PM PDT by Reagan Man
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has paid a visit to Gordon Brown in Downing Street. Baroness Thatcher arrived at three o'clock this afternoon.
Tea for two at Number 10After meeting staff, including the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Tom Scholar whose father worked for her, Baroness Thatcher had private discussions with Mr Brown.
She then went upstairs for tea in the flat she and her husband Dennis once lived in.
The Chancellor Alistair Darling and his wife Margaret who now live there played host and Sarah Brown came too with the Prime Minister's children.
Baroness Thatcher was invited to No. 10 after an exchange of letters in the first few days after Mr Brown succeeded Tony Blair in June.
The visit follows the Prime Minister's news conference last week when Mr Brown outed himself as a Thatcherite.
When he was asked what he admired about her, the Prime Minister pointed to the fact that she recognised the need for change and, he said: "I also admire the fact that she is a conviction politician.
"I am a conviction politician like her."
Britain's last prime minister had a fiery relationship with the Iron Lady.
In 1995 Lady Thatcher said Tony Blair was "probably the most formidable Labour leader since Hugh Gaitskell".
But just a few years later, Mr Blair said: "I take nothing away from those things that were done in the 1980s that we have kept.
"But it really is time in my view that we move British politics beyond the time of Margaret Thatcher. "
The last of the Big Three who saved the world:
Ronaldus Maximus, Pope John Paul the Great and the Iron Lady.
She shoulda kicked him in the nuts.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
In 1995 Lady Thatcher said Tony Blair was "probably the most formidable Labour leader since Hugh Gaitskell".
But just a few years later, Mr Blair said: "I take nothing away from those things that were done in the 1980s that we have kept.
"But it really is time in my view that we move British politics beyond the time of Margaret Thatcher. "
Oh those fiery, fiery Brits.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
And a very real danger for the GOP. The goal of the RINOs, irrelevent permanent minority status.
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