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You undersell how she left office. Her approval rating was in the 20's, and she was despised by her own cabinet members.  It wasn't just the unions and the welfare dependents.  That is a comforting fiction.[/quote]

She won the election three times so the Brits could have dumped her if they wished but they did not because they were not willing to go back to what she inherited. You should mention that the Labor leader Michael Foot, wanted to nationalize the banks.

Yes, she was ultimately dumped by her own party just as Blair was though in his case he read the writing on the wall and decided to exit gracefully. Blair basically built on her legacy with the "New Labor" slogan. His Labor party was not the same as the one that was in power under his predecessors like Wilson and Callaghan in terms of the policies espoused.

I went to school in England and I saw first hand the terrible damage being done to the country by the unions and the welfare state. The difference between her and Reagan was that she was almost clinical in her approach to what needed to be done. Reagan had an element of warmth which went down well. But Reagan did not take over a country that was in free-fall like Thatcher did.[/quote]

Yeah, but I was there studying at the same time, and I was at Parliament for Question Time when she had to defend the Community Charge, AKA the poll tax.  She was in trouble.[/quote]

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