We liked disliking her. She made one Maggie! The relative wealth of the UK 1% had been falling steadily for 50 years when Thatcher took power in 1979; since then it has climbed steeply and is almost back to 1918 levels. In front of his journalist colleagues he was told to stand right in front of her so that she could hit him lightly with her order papers. . It came to a head over her most egregious policy failure, Europe. But on the subject of Europe, Thatcher became a contradictory figure. Take the larger view. But the left also needs to look beyond the turbulent events in Europe to appreciate the speed of global change and the complications this creates for welfare-laden economies: the dynamos and innovators are increasingly found in Africa, Asia and Latin America rather than France, Germany and Spain. Reagan's decision to bomb Libya in April 1986 and spoke Following in the footsteps of Santa Claus, Steve Hynd quickly compiled a list of all the naughty boys and girls "on the left" who dared to express criticisms of the dearly departed Prime Minister, warning that he "will continue to add to this list throughout the day". Her onslaught on the trade unions left those movements pale imitations of their former selves, too weak to resist the drive to the "flexible labour market" which has seen Britain become the home of what one senior Labour figure calls "crappy jobs", with low pay and no protection. When President Reagan died in June 2004, she delivered a Knocking up a flan for Denis or helping Carol with her algebra or Mark with his gun-running, are jarring distractions from the main narrative; woman as warrior queen. a new dominance from Brussels", the Jan Leeming, Sue Lawley, Moira Stuart delivering doctrine with sterile sexiness, like a butterscotch-scented beige vapour. But now the history was what mattered. The left misleads us and maybe itself when it says that Thatcher's policies, extended by New Labour and then by the coalition, have failed. Steely, certainly. talked of "Victorian Values". Tellingly, few people have trouble understanding the need for balanced commentary when the political leaders disliked by the west pass away. Thatcher understood the connection between the social wage and workers' wages better than most unions. Weakening the power of trade unions was not only essential to her project, but several studies suggest that their continued weakness may be an important part of the reason why inequality has not declined in the intervening decades.
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Margaret Thatcher - HISTORY of the 1600 libraries around the world which hold the CD-ROM. There are more than 8,000. She and her successors John Major and Tony Blair presided over a quarter century of unprecedented prosperity. As I see it, and as one who had the pleasure of knowing both, they would recognize the huge opportunity created by the presence of each in the respective national and international policy-making role. But she personified the change from meaning to meaninglessness in so many settlements and lives, and for this reason she is hard to forgive. She usually knew the limits to public tolerance, gauging how much of the spirit of '45 abided, so even if it was between gritted teeth, she forced herself to say, "The NHS is safe in our hands": she reorganised but did not privatise it. None present eyed her meanly or spoke with vitriol and it wasn't until an hour later that I dreamt up an Ealing comedy-style caper in which two inept crooks kidnap Thatcher from the garden but are unable to cope with the demands of dealing with her, and finally give her back. She was among the first Western leaders to When I think of this memorial, I think of the words of Rupert Brooke, "that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.". Such items have an The leading feminist Natasha Walter called Thatcher "the great unsung heroine of British feminism". There turned out to be no such thing as society, at least in the sense we used to understand it. She may have got it slightly wrong. For miners, greed was a destructive force, not a force for good. No homeless or disabled people need beg on the streets. three press interviews (15-17 November) when Howe's resignation speech defended Ronald And the miners. Their target was "the enemy within" working-class power and the so-called culture of entitlement. She gave it her best shot. Neither shift of ownership and power would have happened without a leader prepared to take risks with her life. When the late Christopher Hitchens was a political reporter for the New Statesman, he corrected the prime minister on a point of fact, and she was quick to correct Hitchens in turn. Nelson travelled to South Africa where he helped negotiate a deal that saw the UDA, UVF and Ulster Resistance acquire AK-47 automatic rifles, pistols, grenades, and RPG rocket launchers in late 1987 or early 1988. Buy the CD-ROM from this link or find one Former Tory MP Louise Mensch, with no apparent sense of irony, invoked precepts of propriety to announce: "Pygmies of the left so predictably embarrassing yourselves, know this: not a one of your leaders will ever be globally mourned like her.". In 1990 Thatcher authorised the then British secretary of state Peter Brooke to reopen back-channel negotiations with republicans. Look inside your own house, at the water coming out of the tap: once a public utility but, after Thatcher, the property of private companies, many foreign-owned.
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Margaret Thatcher's speech writer will miss funeral but 'shed a tear' And, of course, Nelson provided the intelligence. How could anyone who was so resolutely Margaret Thatcher be anything else? Thatcher's social instincts were always nostalgic conservative. She went to a fee-paying school and to Oxford at her father's expense, gliding easily into the upper echelons of student politics. In the early 1980s, the Republican party joined with other moderate and conservative parties in the world to form the International Democrat Union. She certainly was divisive, bisecting the country politically and geographically: hard-hit regions in the north of England, Wales and Scotland may be notably less civil in their farewells. But the choice captures her perfectly. led Michael Heseltine to run against her for the party leadership. Strident, divisive, and in her own view infallible, and for these reasons hard to mourn. We might speculate that an adviser had offered Thatcher a selection of good lines, or that she had asked to see some. Thatcher will be especially remembered for her shameful role during the epic hunger strikes of 1980 and 81. I can't articulate with the skill of either of "the Marks" Steel or Thomas why Thatcher and Thatcherism were so bad for Britain but I do recall that even to a child her demeanour and every discernible action seemed to be to the detriment of our national spirit and identity. The 70s was Britain's most equal decade. She was a steadfast friend to brutal tyrants such as Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein and Indonesian dictator General Suharto ("One of our very best and most valuable friends"). As coal, steel and shipbuilding fell under her wrecking ball, whole communities were destroyed.
BBC Radio 4 - Green Originals, Margaret Thatcher Norman and Margaret hold, and will always hold, a unique place in our esteem and affection. M argaret Thatcher does an awful lot of crying in The Crown. Until her final poll-tax hubris, she knew when swerving was the better part of valour and despite that famous one-liner, she was sometimes for turning. The impact that Hayek's writing had on Thatcher, her advisors, and her policies is undeniable. She forced us to decide what was truly important. Chvez is gone, but the voters are likely to re-elect Chavismo on 14 April. It destroyed the public's power to determine via parliament the services and prices of gas, electricity, telephone. Thatcher's threat to butcher the mining industry, destroy the fabric of mining communities and in particular the trade union to which miners had a bond of loyalty, was met with the fiercest resistance any government has met in peacetime. But really, such statements were anything but, first because sweeping statements about genders are the opposite of gender equality and second because they revealed her real attitude towards women, which lay behind her notable lack of female-friendly policies, her utter lack of interest in childcare provision or positive action. Her unforgettable presence, but also her policy achievements. (MT gave up public By raising the pay of their own staff to a minimum of the living wage, they have set an example which a growing number of large private-sector employers have followed. Ed Miliband, a policy wonk himself, claims to be a conviction politician like Thatcher. Thatcher was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during Reagan's presidency, and was close with him which speaking in March 2002.). Keith Joseph was her guru. She, for one, never underestimated her friend from California, then a state of some 24 million. Her heirs have not learned that lesson, with no sign of their promised "rebalancing". Margaret Thatcher (October 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) was the first woman prime minister of the United Kingdom and the first European woman to serve as a prime minister. And for the people of Ireland, and especially the north, the Thatcher years were among some of the worst of the conflict.
Speeches, interviews & other statements - Margaret Thatcher At the Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow, the pantomime featured the Wicked Witch of the South; everyone knew her real identity. Elton has previously said that he did two minutes about Thatcher and two hours about his knob, and all anyone ever remembered was the Thatcher material. Before the real Thatcher's election in 1979 she took lessons with a speech coach at the Royal National Theatre, hoping to make her voice more commanding and less "shrill" in broadcasts.
Harold Macmillan, Margaret Thatcher and British Conservatism's Politics And as my Guardian colleague Seumas Milne detailed last year, "across Britain Thatcher is still hated for the damage she inflicted and for her political legacy of rampant inequality and greed, privatisation and social breakdown.". press to rejoice at the capture of South Georgia on 25 April 1982, announced that White The credit boom both here and in the USA may have gone against her Grantham roots but was an equally inevitable result of deregulation and the temptation of easy loans for people hungry to improve living standards. Therein, 30 years ago, lay the great Thatcher asset and the electorally lethal Thatcher impact in Scotland. A growing body of research now shows that the quality of social relations is among the most powerful influences on the happiness, health and wellbeing of populations in the rich countries. If you want anything done, ask a woman.". at The Hague in May 1992. LONDON Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister and uncompromisingly conservative "Iron Lady" of the 1980s, has died. As the authorised biographer of Margaret Thatcher, I was given special permission by the Cabinet Secretary to see government papers not yet released to the public.For .
If You Want Anything Said Ask a Man, Want Anything Done Ask a Woman Meryl Streep's depiction of a shuffling figure, stricken and isolated by the death of her husband, Denis, may have softened memories, or formed them in the minds of a younger generation. MT prayed on the In her 1982 party conference speech, Margaret Thatcher offered a prediction for the future: "How absurd it will seem in a few years' time that the state ran Pickfords removals and Gleneagles Hotel . On the day Thatcher died, the Daily Mail ran a piece claiming that Coco Chanel "was a feminist before the word existed". At her first conference speech, she chastised the Labour Party on economic . Reagan, who had recently left office as governor of California, was in London to deliver a speech to the Pilgrim Society. He'd been a bully, she said, whereas Mrs T was warm and understanding.
Defending The Venezuelan Embassy, Organizing Peace for Ukraine with Heath took us into Europe, and a referendum in spring 1975 confirmed national approval for the move. In the 80s, she was the primary force behind what was known then as alternative comedy and is now simply called "comedy". To the extent that there was an industrial strategy, it was to sell Britain as a destination for Japanese car companies and to shift the focus of the economy away from manufacturing towards financial services. Rishi Sunak: 'Our country needs the . It was meant as a term of condemnation, a concise way of arguing that riots in the street or the devastation of a pit village were the inevitable features of this new land that had arisen in the 1980s, a country reshaped by the woman at the top. a There are more than 8,000. She invited the September 25, 2020. All of the Tory edicts that bludgeoned our nation, as my generation squirmed through ghoulish puberty, were confusing. Typifying these highly dubious claims about Thatcher was this (appropriately diplomatic) statement from President Obama: "The world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend." to his resignation letter on 1 November, defended herself against rough
'I was there': Margaret Thatcher 'not for turning', 1980 She denounced Nelson Mandela and his ANC as "terrorists", something even David Cameron ultimately admitted was wrong. The news last week that they are instead considering cutting or freezing the minimum wage surely undermines any pretence that the government is acting either coherently or in the public interest. She pointed out that she was only 10 years old when she ceased to be prime minister. There are many reasons for this. The remainder are listed without a text because . Thatcher's opposition to a positive role for the state in industrial policy caused her grief even during her time in office, but a cross-party consensus newly shaped by Michael Heseltine's report has given him the last word. Since 1990 a selection of statements is listed. But perhaps her greatest legacy was New Labour. Margaret Thatcher's most popular book is The Downing Street Years. "Thatcher as mother" seemed, to my tiddly mind, anathema. On November 8th 1989, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave an inspiring speech to the UN General Assembly about the environment and climate change. Copyright Margaret Thatcher Foundation 2023. Scottish and by extension UK politics has been skewed ever since. The novel may thrive in adversity and it was a general sense of dismay at the new world she was showing us that lured many writers into opposition. All of us that grew up under Thatcher were taught that it is good to be selfish, that other people's pain is not your problem, that pain is in fact a weakness and suffering is deserved and shameful. Maggie! It was part of her conspicuous virtue, her indifference to familiar political conventions. Thatcher's passing is marked by street parties in Brixton, Belfast, Bristol, Derry, Glasgow and Liverpool, and seething bitterness among the mining families and communities she was allowed (including by scab union and Labour leaders) to destroy. It was a watershed moment in Irish politics. Yet despite the attempts of some columnists to claim otherwise, Thatcher can't really be seen as "a warrior in the sex war", let alone as "the ultimate women's libber". In the three years after the shipment they killed 224 and wounded scores more. This, too, we still live with. see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising But for others, the change in landscape is all too real. The spell he was referring to is the unseen bond that connects us all and prevents us from being subjugated by tyranny. She defended Ronald In rich societies such as the UK, what makes most difference to the real quality of our lives is the quality of community life and social interaction. (MT gave up public speaking in March 2002.)
'The Crown': Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth's Key Conflicts If it ended in disaster, the seeds were only partly hers. Texts for listed statements are available on the site in almost 70 per cent of cases. Or perhaps it was just because I was a little kid and more interested in them Weetabix skinheads, Roland Rat and Knight Rider. We have his example. No one noticed, but she was Blair's first guest at Downing Street in 1997. I have few recollections of Thatcher after the slowly chauffeured, weepy Downing Street cortege. British Labour MP Tom Watson decreed: "I hope that people on the left of politics respect a family in grief today." The 1978 meeting was their last in person until Mrs Thatcher became Reagan's first state visitor, 26-28 February 1981. Typically, this distinction is mapped onto the ideas that Conservatives hold about equality. What's more, it was moulded to the wall as one commentator recalled and you had no right to change it, not without becoming entangled in a state-managed bureaucracy. first television interview the following day. One leading Tory thinker said current academic concepts such as evolutionary psychology and behavioural economics were fundamentally rightwing; another said disruptive digital technology liberated individuals against powerful behemoths which may be true, but some of the most striking online advances harness the collective spirit. By the 1983 election she had sold off only Britoil and some council houses. To demand that all of that be ignored in the face of one-sided requiems to her nobility and greatness is a bit bullying and tyrannical, not to mention warped. This book shows how. Much has been written about the special significance and warmth of the British-American alliance during the two terms of Ronald Reagan. her intention to allow her name to go forward to the second ballot, she Nobody, at least that I know of, objected to that observation on the ground that it was disrespectful to the ability of the Chavez family to mourn in peace. The blunt, pathetic reality today is that a little old lady has died, who in the winter of her life had to water roses alone under police supervision. She also put forward the idea of "a vast . speech to the House of Lords in June 1993. But it was overlaid by the supposedly masculine virtues, sometimes more manly than the men could ever assemble. Tim Bale, author of The Conservative Party: from Thatcher to Cameron, says it was conviction. For some, the only consequence of that shift, still visible today, will be a changed brand name or higher bills. She preferred markets, and a strong but minimal central state that backed their rule. can do business together". But she became a very effective one. Sir Bernard Ingham was Margaret Thatcher writ large.
Rhetorical Analysis Of Margaret Thatcher's Speech We watched as her high heels went click-click-click across the stones of the Acropolis and the cement floors of Tito's steel mills. In former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's eulogy speech for President Ronald Reagan (2004), she elucidates what a kind and powerful man he was. The core of this site is a massive database of MT's public statements of all kinds across the years (speeches, interviews, press conferences, etc), searchable by date, subject, importance, and keyword. They built and provided their own welfare facilities and, well before today's welfare state was built, miners created their own welfare systems to alleviate hardship. Until then Thatcher had shown the strength of her weakness: a dislike of consensus and aversion to debate, leading to decisive action. But Thatcher was still cautious. Accounts vary. To have achieved all this alone would have made Margaret Thatcher a towering, transformational figure, one who altered the physical fabric of the nation.