Who will take this great Conservative's place?
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have lost a real leader.
My sympathies and prayers go out for her family.
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 ...
“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” Margaret Thatcher
At least we have the example set, of leadership. Further words fail me. The Iron Lady says it all.
Makes mincemeat of the oft quoted “leadership from behind”.
THAT makes me cry. May you rest in peace, Baroness Thatcher.
Whatever one’s feelings about Lady Thatcher’s legacy, The Iron Lady is a disgraceful film. You do not have to support her politics to defend her right to privacy in old age. She deserves to be treated with as much dignity as anyone else. This is precisely what the film, in depicting her in the grip of dementia while she is still alive, fails to do.
I do not know how impaired Lady Thatcher is, if she really hallucinates and sees her dead husband or has ever slipped past her minders to wander aimlessly to the shops, confused and alone. But I do hope she never sees this film or reads the reviews. No wonder her children, Mark and Carol, refused to attend private screenings.
Some other comments:
Cynthia Crawford, who worked for Lady Thatcher throughout her Downing Street tenure, said some scenes in the £10million film were ‘totally unrelated to the truth’.
She attacked the decision to release the film during the 86-year-old former prime minister’s lifetime as ‘beyond the boundaries’.Mrs Crawford, 74, said: ‘The dementia scenes are disproportionate to her life and her business and her being prime minister, I think that’s really very sad – Lady Thatcher’s policy was you look forward and you don’t look back.
‘If they had made the film about the 11-and-a-half years of her life as prime minister it could have been absolutely fantastic.’
She praised scenes depicting her career, including her role in the Falklands and the miners’ strike, saying: ‘I thought those were done well but the dementia scenes were not.’ She added: ‘I can assure you that all the domestic scenes in the film are just absolutely inconceivable. They’re just not right and totally unrelated to the truth.’
Mrs Crawford said: ‘To produce this in Lady Thatcher’s lifetime is beyond the boundaries and very cruel, but it is only a film, which will soon be forgotten. Her name and her legacy will forever be mentioned in the history of Great Britain.’
Just wondering if she ever “apologized” for something
she said on the public stage. You know, ‘should have chosen
my words better’ style.
Times have really changed,not for the better, and I don’t
think it will be changing back anytime soon.
I mark today, with remorse, for the passing of the Iron Lady.
Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II. We shall not see their like again in our lifetimes.
“Too good for the lot of them” was the headline when she was forced out. She’s still too good for the lot of them.
May she rest in peace. If they ever erect a Mount Rushmore to commemorate the West’s victory in the Cold War, she would be there alongside President Ronald Reagan, His Holiness Pope John Paul II and Lech Walesa.
Looking over this thread is making me cry.
I watched so much of the Reagan ceremonies. I remember most Thatcher in the church, looking frail and slumped but yet there she was, ensuring she was there in tribute, big trip and long ceremonies and all.
I sooo miss these great people and the era they dominated. Things were so different.
God bless Lady Thatcher, and I hope she will have ceremonies I can watch.
God rest her soul.
yup. Especially when compared to the 3rd string lightweights that we have now.
Amen .. Amen
Ok, that made the tears start. As someone previously stated, they were Giants and there is no one even close to replacing the them.
One of freedoms brightest lights has passed. The darkness only seems to grow.
“Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II. We shall not see their like again in our lifetimes.”
Quite true. Absolutely marvelous leaders hated and despised by the press.
I'd also add Pope John Paul II to that team. Remember, the first cracks in the iron curtain started in Poland with his encouragement.
So sorry to hear. RIP PM Thatcher.
She fought against the surrender of UK sovereignty to the EU and was deposed by the CINO’s in her own party.
Her stand for the UK against the EU does not live on in David Cameron, who is faking his EU skepticism to win the next election.
But Thatcher’s opposition to the EU does live on in the United Kingdom Independence Party.
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