Posted on 04/08/2013 5:00:41 AM PDT by Incorrigible
Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher diesBreaking news Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.
Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."
Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.
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I’d guess that she and Ronnie are sharing old times with an eye to the sad state of the earth as people drifted away from the principles she and Ronnie tried to emphasize as empowering individual life.
RIP. For those of us who remember those days fondly, this is a sad moment.
RIP Lady Thatcher. Farewell to the final member of the greatest trio of moral and political strength of my lifetime.
God take her.
It is interesting to consider where England might be now if she hadn’t been PM back then.
I watched it on Netflix. I disliked it.
ping for later
Agh. I LOVE that quote. Thanks.
She was a great patriot and leader. I hope she’s having a wonderful reunion with Ronaldus Magnus and Pope John Paul II, her fellow lions.
Boy do I hate being right all the time. So it begins.
Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II. We shall not see their like again in our lifetimes.
Amen to that, Old Sarge. God bless them all, and may they Rest in Peace...
Heritage Mourns Loss of Lady Margaret Thatcher, “Intrepid Warrior for Freedom”
Thatcher remembered for shaping conservatism on both sides of Atlantic
One of the giants. RIP.
dayum Sarge, that photo made my screen all misty . . .
...or American. :(
“Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II. We shall not see their like again in our lifetimes.”
But wouldn’t you love to sit in on some of the conversations they are going to have?
I’m going outside to lower my flag to half staff. Lady Thatcher was more of an “American” than any of the leaders we have today in our country. God rest her soul.
RIP Margaret Thatcher, we will never forget you..your amazing grace..and how you fought for liberty. God Bless you Lady Thatcher
Lech Walesa still lives...another great friend of President Reagan. Conservative Americans will miss you terribly, Mrs. Thatcher.
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