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    Margaret Thatcher Dies of Stroke - 87

    Margaret Thatcher has died following a stroke, age 87. Source: BBC

    BBC News - Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies

    Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies




    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.


    Baroness Thatcher, born Margaret Roberts, became the Conservative MP for Finchley, north London in 1959, retiring from the Commons in 1992.
    Having been education secretary, she successfully challenged former prime minister Edward Heath for her party's leadership in 1975.


    She won general elections in 1979, 1983 and 1987.
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    come on TS post up the article .

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    good man , now you can have a green when I can

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    No loss.
    Good riddance, Maggie.

    Nothing short of a pox on the world.

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    Former UK PM Margaret Thatcher dies after stroke

    By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
    April 8, 2013 -- Updated 1157 GMT (1957 HKT)


    Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron inside Number 10 Downing Street on June 8, 2010.

    (CNN) -- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died Monday following a stroke, her spokeswoman confirmed.
    Britain's only female prime minister, Thatcher served from 1979 to 1990 as leader of the Conservative Party. She was called the "Iron Lady" for her personal and political toughness.
    Thatcher retired from public life after a stroke in 2002 and suffered several strokes after that.

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    The last of the triad is now gone (Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan and now Thatcher)

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    Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female PM, dead at 87

    By Richard Allen Greene, CNN
    April 8, 2013 -- Updated 1207 GMT (2007 HKT)

    London (CNN) -- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a towering figure in post-war British and world politics, and the first woman to become British prime minister, has died at the age of 87, her spokeswoman said Monday.

    Thatcher served from 1979 to 1990 as leader of the Conservative Party. She was called the "Iron Lady" for her personal and political toughness.
    Thatcher retired from public life after a stroke in 2002 and suffered several strokes after that.

    She made few public appearances in her final months, missing a reception marking her 85th birthday hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron in October 2010. She also skipped the July 2011 unveiling of a statue honoring her old friend Ronald Reagan in London.

    In December 2012, she was hospitalized after a procedure to remove a growth in her bladder.

    Thatcher made history

    Thatcher won the nation's top job only six years after declaring in a television interview, "I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime."

    During her time at the helm of the British government, she emphasized moral absolutism, nationalism, and the rights of the individual versus that of the state -- famously declaring, "There is no such thing as society" in 1987.

    Nicknamed the "Iron Lady" by the Soviet press after a 1976 speech declaring that "the Russians are bent on world dominance," Thatcher later enjoyed a close working relationship with U.S. President Reagan, with whom she shared similar conservative views.

    But the British cold warrior played a key role in ending the conflict by giving her stamp of approval to Soviet Communist reformer Mikhail Gorbachev shortly before he came to power.

    "I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together," she famously declared in December 1984, three months before he became Soviet leader.
    Having been right about Gorbachev, Thatcher came down on the wrong side of history after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, arguing against the reunification of East and West Germany.
    Allowing the countries created in the aftermath of World II to merge would be destabilizing to the European status quo, and East Germany was not ready to become part of Western Europe, she insisted in January 1990.

    "East Germany has been under Nazism or communism since 1930. You are not going to go overnight to democratic structures and a freer market economy," Thatcher insisted in a key interview, arguing that peace, security and stability "can only be achieved through our existing alliances negotiating with others internationally."

    West German leader Helmut Kohl was furious about the interview, seeing Thatcher as a "protector of Gobachev," according to notes made that day by his close aide Horst Teltschik.

    The two Germanies reunited by the end of that year.

    Thatcher -- born in October 1925 in the small eastern England market town of Grantham -- came from a modest background, taking pride in being known as a grocer's daughter. She studied chemistry at Oxford, but was involved in politics from a young age, giving her first political speech at 20, according to her official biography.

    She was elected leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, when the party was in opposition.

    She made history four years later, becoming prime minister when the Conservatives won the elections of 1979, the first of three election victories she led her party to.

    As British leader, Thatcher took a firm stance with the European Community -- the forerunner of the European Union -- demanding a rebate of money London contributed to Brussels.

    Her positions on other issues, both domestic and foreign, were just as firm, and in one of her most famous phrases, she declared at a Conservative party conference that she had no intention of changing her mind.

    "To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: 'You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning,'" she declared, to cheers from party members.

    The United Kingdom fought a short, sharp war against Argentina over the Falklands Islands under Thatcher in 1982, responding with force when Buenos Aires laid claim to the islands.

    Announcing that Britain had recaptured South Georgia Island from Argentina, Thatcher appealed to nationalist sentiments, advising the press: "Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our forces."

    A journalist shouted a question at her as she turned to go back into 10 Downing Street: "Are we going to war with Argentina, Mrs. Thatcher?"
    She paused for an instant, then offered a single word: "Rejoice."

    The conflict was not without controversy, even in Britain.

    A British submarine sank Argentina's only cruiser, the General Belgrano, in an encounter that left 358 Argentines dead. The sinking took place outside of Britain's declared exclusion zone.

    In her first term, Thatcher reduced or eliminated many government subsidies to business, a move that led to a sharp rise in unemployment. By 1986, unemployment had reached 3 million.

    But Thatcher won landslide re-election in 1983 on the heels of the Falklands victory, her Conservative Party taking a majority of seats in parliament with 42% of the vote. Second-place Labour took nearly 28%, while the alliance that became the Liberal Democrats took just over 25%.
    A year later, she escaped at IRA terrorist bombing at her hotel at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton.

    She was re-elected in 1987 with a slightly reduced majority.

    She was ultimately brought down, not by British voters, but by her own Conservative party.

    She was forced to resign in 1990 during an internal leadership struggle after she introduced a poll tax levied on community residents rather than property.

    The unpopular tax led to rioting in the streets.

    She married her husband, Denis Thatcher, a local businessman who ran his family's firm before becoming an executive in the oil industry, in 1951 -- a year after an unsuccessful run for Parliament. The couple had twins, Mark and Carol, in 1953.

    She was elected to Parliament in 1959 and served various positions, including education secretary, until her terms as prime minister.

    Thatcher was awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom by President George H. W. Bush in 1991, a year after she stepped down as prime minister. She was named Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven after leaving office.

    She retired from public life after a stroke in 2002 and suffered several smaller strokes after that. Her husband died in June 2003.

    Though her doctors advised against public speaking, a frail Thatcher attended Reagan's 2004 funeral, saying in a pre-recorded video that Reagan was "a great president, a great American, and a great man."

    "And I have lost a dear friend," she said.

    In the years that followed she encountered additional turmoil -- namely in 2004, when her son, Mark Thatcher, was arrested in an investigation of an alleged plot by mercenaries to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea in west Africa. He pleaded guilty in a South African court in 2005 to unwittingly bankrolling the plot.

    CNN's Laura Perez Maestro contributed to this report.

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    MargaDret Thatcher dies of stroke aged 87 - Telegraph

    Ding Dong the Witch is Dead !!!
    As a victim of the Thatcher years I'm not going to shed any tears for the old bitch , I just hope the inhabitants of hell have got an escape route planned .


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer View Post
    The last of the triad is now gone (Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan and now Thatcher)
    Gone, perhaps...

    But the practice and philosophical influence remains quite steadfast.

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    I liked her. I thought she was the best PM the Uk has ever had. I just wish she hadn't back tracked on the 'Poll Tax'.

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    BBC has an Obit of course - too long to copy but there is a video obit too:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10364876

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pragmatic View Post
    I liked her. I thought she was the best PM the Uk has ever had. I just wish she hadn't back tracked on the 'Poll Tax'.
    They got their way in the end. Not much different to the eventual Council Tax. Now VAT is 20% or so.. The average person is f+cked and paying back millions and millions to bailed out banks, just like the Americans are doing.

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    Yes, Margaret Thatcher is dead

    Oh, yes. "The Lady, is not, returning!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rural Surin View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer View Post
    The last of the triad is now gone (Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan and now Thatcher)
    Gone, perhaps...

    But the practice and philosophical influence remains quite steadfast.
    True - these c+nts were the architects and test pilots. There are still very influential forces out there trying to institutionalize the disenfranchisement of the majority for the minority. Just look at Europe for proof of that. Today Portugal said it was cutting its public health care programmes. Education will be next - then they'll all be coming for our social security (pension funds).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer
    Thatcher died peacefully
    Sad news and unfair.

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    Mixed feelilngs, but generally saddened to hear the news.

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    ^ That's your right.
    But I wonder how many people didn't make it to 87 thanks to her Friedman-esque scorched earth anti-social policies, not to mention the impoverishment of millions of households for a generation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer View Post
    ^ That's your right.
    But I wonder how many people didn't make it to 87 thanks to her Friedman-esque scorched earth anti-social policies, not to mention the impoverishment of millions of households for a generation.
    Did she do nothing good?

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    Agree with you all.
    She did a huge amount of damage and fucked millions of lives.

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    Fuck off you mugs, Maggie rocked!

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    She had a lot of balls and got noticed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer View Post
    ^ That's your right.
    But I wonder how many people didn't make it to 87 thanks to her Friedman-esque scorched earth anti-social policies, not to mention the impoverishment of millions of households for a generation.
    Not much difference comparing any of the PMs/Establishment, let alone Maggie.

    They all belong to the same club, even to this day.

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    R.I.P. Maggie

    I thought you were great. But then I was just a daft teenager in the 80s.

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