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.

[TomGuy]

I recently watched The Iron Lady on Showtime. It gave an interesting portrayal of Lady Thatcher. It did, however, make her appear as going around talking to her dead husband, implying that she was sort of crazy.

Lady Thatcher's departure from politics, like Ronald Reagan's, left a void. They were strong leaders who left legacies of a better world.

[originalbuckeye]

I read that during the recent one-day strike by BBC workers, they said they would come back to report if Nelson Mandela died........but not for Baroness Thatcher. She was AWESOME! Sadly, the drumbeat by the Left in Britain while she was the PM was ‘Margaret Thatcher, milk snatcher’. She had decided to end free milk in school for kids over 7. Britain is a much sadder place for the loss of Maggie.

[mrsmel]

My favorite is her theory of the “ratchet effect” . I have never heard a phrase which so aptly and succinctly describes the push-pull between left and right, and how the advantage goes to the left. Her description of this effect has never been more relevant than it is now, when the effect has been “ratcheted” up even more than in her political day. She had intelligence and vision, unlike the apparatchiks of both left and right these days.

[originalbuckeye]

The best parts of The Iron Lady were when they showed her in her early years and her prime. They spent waaaaaay too much time on the years she was failing with Alzheimers.

[Maigrey]

This is what I remember most...

[Sir Napsalot]

(Repeat posting from another thread, sorry)

Mrs. Thatcher paid tribute to Pres Reagan even though she was very ill at the time, I am so sorry we don’t have an equal giant returning the honor.

Condolences on both our countries.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Argument framing at its finest. Reducing leftist arguments to their lowest common denominator - which for the left is very low indeed - made her devastating in oral argument.

May God rest Baroness Thatcher’s soul. We are not likely to see her like in British politics again.

[CPONuke]

That’s okay because subsequent stories will more than make up for the lack of vitriol. This will end up as one of the worst examples of what the news and people in general can do. Possibly worse than the attack on Rick Warren.

[the scotsman]

Neatly forgetting that Labour in 1968 were the first party to do away with free milk.

Thatcher was a giant of British and world politics. What has come after have been pygmies.

[Vaquero]

[Pan_Yan]

I assume we will send the VP to the funeral. Oh, the shame we bear for so poorly honoring a true friend.

[dforest]

I am shedding a few tears. All the good ones are leaving us and we are left with evil scum.

[originalbuckeye]

When I moved to Britain with my new husband in the early 80’s, the coal miners were striking. One of their demands was that they could hand over their jobs to their kids. I was shocked. I told my husband that we always espected our children to do better that we had done. Sadly, the Socialist attitude in now here and the American Dream is gone. She stood up to the Unions like no other in British history. Iron Lady, ABSOLUTELY!

[no-to-illegals]

Prayers up for Maggie and Maggie's family. The West has lost one of our Greatest Ones. May God allow one more collaboration between Maggie and Ronnie that will bestow upon the West a proved path to follow to victory.

[Daveinyork]

“I can’t think of a sufficient tribute to her accomplishments.”

My thoughts, exactly.

[Abathar]

That woman had more backbone and steel in her than all the republicans in Washington today.

Rest in peace world changer. You are now gone to a better place after spending your life trying to bring a better future for everyone in this world. You have left us but you will never, ever, be forgotten.

[rockinqsranch]

R.I.P. Mrs. Thatcher.

[Nailbiter]

ping ......... RIP

[americas.best.days...]

John Paul II and Ronald Reagan have been waiting for her.

Thanks Lady Thatcher, for your leadership and inspiration.

Rest in peace.

[I cannot think of a name]

“I’ve watched it. It wasn’t the hatched job you might think it was. It was pretty balanced in my view.”

Actually it WAS a hatchet job from the leftist viewpoint -

It showed her as unbending, uncompromising, unwilling to give an inch conservative leader.

Which of course are all mortal sins to liberal idiots.

I on the other hand was screaming with delight. The only sad part that I saw was that we (conservatives) apparently have no current leaders that are unbending, uncompromising and unwilling to give an inch.

Sigh.