Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies

BBC ^ | 4/8/2013 | N/A

[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.

[A'elian' nation]

This is an excellent review of comments from notable figures from around the world from The Telegraph in England.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9978844/Margaret-Thatcher-dies-live.html

For some reason, Argentinians and labor leaders were not particularly effusive.

[A'elian' nation]

I am ‘stuned’ that Margaret Thatcher’s death is not the lead story on the news networks. It is ten minutes into Fox News and not one mention of her passing yet.

INCONCEIVABLE !

[LongWayHome]

RIP. A great & historic figure.

[markomalley]

May God rest her soul.

For those who have not seen it before, her last performance in the House of Commons. I wish we had somebody on our side today that could do half the job she did at demolishing the opposition.

Part 1: http://youtu.be/_6CJWiaaEOU

Part 2: http://youtu.be/5KlY-z_esuk

Part 3: http://youtu.be/6c3IXYoRrlE

Part 4: http://youtu.be/vVrYWk4dr5U

[A'elian' nation]

This is an explanation of the poll ( equal ) tax.

http://mises.org/econsense/ch62.asp

It was an attempt to do away with property taxes by instituting a poll ( equal or flat ) tax on everyone. The problem was that the local councils kept raising the “equal” tax to the point that people hit the streets to protest rising taxes. A sad irony in the eventual downfall of Baroness Thatcher.

[GeronL]

bump

RIP

[ReformationFan]

RIP, Iron Lday. The last good PM formerly Great Britain will ever have.

[Impy]

That’s a great idea.

And we should put it in the Falklands to PO those damn Argentines who are celebrating today cause they are still mad at her over the war that they started.

Or maybe put in the West end of London to PO those ghouls who continued to perform a song in a musical that celebrates her death.

[Democrat_media]

This is so sad.

what a great woman

[drewh]

Godspeed Baroness Thatcher!

[drewh]

I hate it when we lose the really great ones.

[Albion Wilde]

[Albion Wilde]

Hillsdale College

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

During the Reagan/Thatcher years, I wondered whether it was our high water mark, and....well.... yeah.

[drewh]

[Dante3]

I agree. The Iron Lady was brilliant.

RIP

[drewh]

[littleharbour]

There is a mosaic on NRO of Thatcher, Reagan, Pope John Paul II and William F. Buckley, the giants in the defeat of totalitarianism. Today we have Cameron, Obama, an untested Pope and a gaggle of wet noodles in charge of National Review. How far the West has fallen.

[Dartman]

To my dying breath, I will feel great joy I lived during the time of the Iron Lady and the Gipper.

My thoughts, exactly. Sometimes I'm so glad that I am the age I am. I was in my 30's during the 80's. Thankfully, old enough and mature enough to appreciate what was happening around me. Rest in peace Mrs. Thatcher. Rest in peace.

[Ron C.]