Posted on 05/06/2019 5:46:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The early days of May bring not only the second birthday of The Mark Steyn Club but an even more significant anniversary: It is forty years this weekend since Mrs Thatcher was driven to Buckingham Palace to become Britain's Prime Minister. The election was held on May 3rd 1979, and the following morning, on May 4th, the Thatchers took possession of 10 Downing Street. (None of this three-month US-style transition period that enabled the outgoing Obama Administration to screw over the incoming Trump team and get the phony-baloney "Russia investigation" all set up.)
Raised in a flat above her father's grocery shop in an English market town in the East Midlands, Margaret Hilda Roberts grew up to become a research chemist, a barrister, and finally a politician - and one of the rare consequential ones, those who shape events as opposed just to stringing along with them. That makes her particularly relevant on a weekend when today's generation of unmoored know-nothing Tories are facing an existential crisis for their worthless fainthearted post-Thatcher party.
Mrs Thatcher's success bred a lot of resentment, not least among the resentful twerps of her own party, who eventually rose up and toppled her - over her attitude to Europe, of course. Just after the Fall of Thatcher, I was in the pub enjoying a drink with her daughter Carol after a little light radio work. A fellow patron, the "radical" "poet" Seething Wells, decided to have a go at her in loco parentis, which is Latin for "in the absence of her loco parent". After reciting a long catalogue of Mrs Thatcher's various crimes, he leaned into Carol, nose to nose, and summed it all up: "Basically, your mum just totally smashed the working classes."
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Before the invasion of colonizers and before the diktat of the EU-ECB-+ and particularly odious Zurich night stalkers.
The question is whether Britain still has a British soul.
When I moved to Britain in the mid-80’s, the coal workers were on strike. I asked what they wanted, why the strike. I was told they were striking for the rule that they could hand their jobs to their sons, when the coal workers retired. All I could say was, ‘in my country parents want their children to do better that themselves’. We REALLY don’t want Socialism here. Margaret Thatcher was a great PM. I have always said, if we could find a Margaret Thatcher here, I would vote for a woman for President.
That's cool, but her most amazing feat is advising idiot Joe Biden on President Trump - from the grave!
Observation: Hillary Clinton is a modern day Cersei Lannister.
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