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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family left the UK because of her policies (my father was unemployed for about a year and a half).

I don't think it's possible for Americans to understand the vitriol. You are all so polite in your politics.[/quote]

15:15 here. I'm not American, I lived in England during Maggie's reign, couldn't stand her. I was just thinking of the "don't speak ill of the dead" etiquette, at least for a day anyway. I think I forgot how reviled she was, particularly in the north. It's been a while. I wouldn't say Americans were polite in their politics either.[/quote]

No argument from me that she was reviled by many. The unions despised her and those who saw a reversal of the unbridled welfare state that was consuming the nation also hated her. But she had the balls to do what was needed and did not give a damn if it was unpopular. The unions in the US have never been as powerful as they were in the UK and they were ruining the country.

There was nothing warm and fuzzy about her. She was a self-made woman of modest means and English to the core. The US needs someone like her to deal with the out of control spending and if someone surfaces, you can be sure that he/she will be as reviled as she was with some in the UK.

An irony: both Thatcher and Reagan, her political soul-mate, in their final years suffered from dementia/Alzheimers.[/quote]

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