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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R.I.P. God Speed “Iron Lady”. You were one of a kind and will be missed.
I saw her depicted as a strong woman who didn’t tolerate the fools who patronised her and did what she thought was right regardless of what the ‘consensus’ was. It did start to depict her as arrogant and out of touch towards the end, but unfortunately, that was reflected by reality IMHO, the Poll Tax was a big mistake on her part and her refusal to repeal it would have cost the Conservatives the 1992 election if she had carried on in that vein.
It happens to all statesmen who stay in power for too long, even the great ones. They begin to think they are infallible and stop listening to any advice that contradicts what they already believe.
I am deeply saddened by our loss of this great woman but I am profoundly grateful that she and the Gipper were able to join forces during a time when the world needed them so much. Rest in peace, Madame Thatcher.
I have to disagree…We will see their like again. Even though there are dark days with current leaders bereft of what these who have gone before did, their legacies demand that there will be future leaders who rise to the occasion and step up to the plate. To not believe this is to accept doom and failure as inevitable…..and I refuse to believe that Maggie Thatcher would have wanted a citizenry to entertain that attitude for a second.
AGREED
There will be more!
GREAT PHOTOS of a GREAT LEADER!
a great woman. hopefully, a role model for my daughter. RIP.
I'll post this here in anticipation of the press reports that will surface during the next few days, saying Reagan and Thatcher didn't really respect each other.
These two were 'one of a kinds', and it will be a long while before we see our nation and another nation's leaders respect and trust each other to this degree again. Perhaps never.
Perhaps it's best both Reagan and Thatcher are no longer around to see what has become of us, and what the results will be.
I miss them and those days a great deal.
Well that’s just fantastic. One of their last sources of cojones just passed away.
That’s a wonderful photo! Thanks for posting it.
Another light goes out in an increasingly dark world.
RIP. MSNBC managed to come up with a headline saying she “polarized” popular culture. Nice people.
Thank you. My pleasure...
Is there a working politician who can hold a candle to what she accomplished? She was from the time before, when people attained power through competence. We loose so much.
Awesome woman! I really admired her.
RIP dear lady.
When it’s Clinton’s time do you think they’ll call him “polarizing” ... W? Sure. Obama? No chance.
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