LOL! Well, now, let's just check into that statement a bit.
By the time she was selected as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher had been a MP for 20 years. During that time she held a significant number of parliamentary and government posts of increasing importance, and was a member of Edward Heath's government (Secretary of Education). She served as Leader of the Opposition from 1975 until she was selected as Prime Minister.
Margaret Thatcher had amassed an immense amount of experience prior to her ascension to Prime Minister. Far, far more than Sarah Palin can claim at this point. The comparison between Palin and Thatcher is, if anything, even less appropriate than the comparison between Palin and Reagan.
Thanks for playing.
I don't know about across the pond but over here one can observe that the longer one is a politician, the more they suck.
Perhaps you haven't observed that pattern. I think a majority in this country, now have.
Chortle!
You can read I suppose?
E-X-E-C-U-T-I-V-E experience. Get it?
Being a British MP is even less executive experience than being a US Senator, which is what 0bama was when he took power. And 0bama had zero executive experience.
After all, there are over SIX HUNDRED British members of parliament(MP's). There's nothing particularly remarkable about being an MP.
The only thing that even came close to executive experience for Margaret Thatcher, was when she was Education Secretary for a few years. That is still not like running whole state or even a city before that like Saran Palin did.
I repeat, Sarah Palin has more executive experience than Margaret Thatcher did when she became Prime Minister. That is FACT.
Equally the grandees of Conservative Party, considered Thatcher as “inexperienced” and not ‘ready to lead” the Conservative Party at the time she was elected leader of the Conservative Party .
As a matter of fact, it was her mentor the brilliant Keith Joseph who was supposed to take over the leadership of the Conservative Party, but events conspired against him, whereby he had to withdraw his name, and Thatcher ended up taking over the leadership of the party.
“She served as Leader of the Opposition from 1975 until she was selected as Prime Minister. “
Shows what you know.
You can't even be the leader of Her Majesty's opposition unless you are the leader of the second biggest party in parliament. When Thatcher was elected leader of the Conservative Party, her sole executive experience if you can call it that), was when she served as Secretary of Education. In Britain they don't vote for the Prime Minster directly. The leader of the party, that has most seats in parliament, becomes the Prime Minister, after a visit with the Queen of course.
I'd put service as Governor of the biggest state in America, much higher than being Secretary of Education in Britain any day.
As Secretary of Education, you take your orders from the Prime Minister, and can be sacked by the Prime Minister at his whim. You are not your own boss.
As Governor, you are the boss. No one can sack you, unless you decide to resign yourself.