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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
“These two were ‘one of a kinds’...”
Indeed they were. I lived in Northern Ireland ‘78 - ‘81 and was there when Maggie first became PM. Still there when RR was elected (I voted absentee that election, 1980). Those were exciting times for me. In the mid-80’s we got a Yorkshire Terrior, and named her ‘Maggie’ after Maggie Thatcher.
And thanks for posting the pic...that one is a keeper!
RIP, Maggie.
Rest In Peace, Mrs Thatcher.
Ronaldus Magnus, Bl. Pope John Paul II and Lady Thatcher are all reunited again. Heaven is richer and this world poorer for it.
We must all be Thatcher now.
I thought it was Twitter joke turn out be true this morning Nutmeg
RIP Maggie now she reunited with her political homeboy President Reagan
pingforpig
Thanks for the mention of where you were in those days. I don’t think our people have ever been more united.
I’ll tell you something else about Thatcher that is not well known. She is often spoken of as Britain’s first and (to date) only female Prime Minister. But more significantly I think is that she is also the first and (to date) only British Prime Minister with a science degree.
God Bless America too.
Thanks for the great photo, and the memories behind it.
My pleasure. Hope things are going good for you...
I would imagine that one common sentiment was in the minds of millions on this sad day of her passing: If only . . . !
Can you give the source for this? I like the story and would like to repeat it to others, but in basic poking around the internet, I haven't seen a source for it yet.
No, it was from memory of a story I heard she told.
Admired her for many things, but her unending support for the British Public Health system leaves me feeling that she was too much of a socialist for my taste.
They’ll get through it. They managed somehow when Reagan died. Can one comfort truly evil corporations in their grief?
How did they do it when Teddy Kennedy died? Did they find any actual substantive accomplishments, other than swimming well even when drunk?
Sarah Palin wrote one of the best eulogies of what Margaret Thatcher meant to the world.
Sarah couldn’t resist this quote from the great British leader, “Sir Archie Hamilton once recounted how he asked Thatcher whether she read the daily newspapers. “‘Oh no!’ she replied, ‘They make such hurtful and damaging remarks about me and my family, that if I ever read the papers every day, I could never get on with the job I am here to do.’” I know exactly what she meant.”
Her tribute can be read in full here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/345014/grocer-s-daughter-sarah-palin
As well as Mark Steyn’s tribute:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/344938/anti-declinist-mark-steyn
Haven’t seen the movie, but Meryl Streep didn’t do a bad job in her comments on Thatcher’s death,
“Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.
It is hard to imagine a part of our current history that has not been affected by measures she put forward in the UK at the end of the 20th century. Her hard-nosed fiscal measures took a toll on the poor, and her hands-off approach to financial regulation led to great wealth for others. There is an argument that her steadfast, almost emotional loyalty to the pound sterling has helped the UK weather the storms of European monetary uncertainty.
But to me she was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit. To have come up, legitimately, through the ranks of the British political system, class bound and gender phobic as it was, in the time that she did and the way that she did, was a formidable achievement.
I was honored to try to imagine her late life journey, after power; but I have only a glancing understanding of what her many struggles were, and how she managed to sail through to the other side. I wish to convey my respectful condolences to her family and many friends.”
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