She was? I've heard of middle age spread, but that's ridiculous. which people in the Falklands are being subjected to British rule against their will? you don't say...
...and your posting style indicated that you weren't. Trying that little bit too hard, and all that. Regardless of their opinions, virtually all genuine Irish don't have that extremist nutjob persona as the defining characteristic of being Irish.
They're just as popular Nah, personally I quite like the jocks mate. My best schoolmate was born in Glasgow. The little woman was born in Barry, S. Wales and a great friend of mine from work, (mean years ago now)... who was a formative influence on me politically, was born in Dublin. Basically, everyone except Thatcher and the French
She was very prominent in The Shock Doctrine...and not in a good way. Although she did concede that ramming through right-wing, free-market economics might not fly as easily in Great Britain as they had in brutal South American dictatorships: In the early ’80s, as Margaret Thatcher attempted to hack away at England’s substantial public sector, she found a frustrating degree of public resistance. The closer she got to the bone, the more the patient wriggled and withdrew. Thatcher doggedly persisted, yet her pace wasn’t fast enough for right-wing Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek, her idol and ideological mentor. You see, in 1981, Hayek had traveled to Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s Chile, where, under the barbed restraints of dictatorship and with the guidance of University of Chicago-trained economists, Pinochet had gouged out nearly every vestige of the public sector, privatizing everything from utilities to the Chilean state pension program. Hayek returned gushing, and wrote Thatcher, urging her to follow Chile’s aggressive model more faithfully. In her reply, Thatcher explained tersely that “in Britain, with our democratic institutions and the need for a higher degree of consent, some of the measures adopted in Chile are quite unacceptable. Our reform must be in line with our traditions and our Constitution. At times, the process may seem painfully slow.” http://inthesetimes.com/article/3406/the_new_road_to_serfdom/
Whatever you say buddy Shame really that she was never brought to justice. Her death (a stroke I believe) was disproportional to the countless deaths and suffering she caused. Only good thing she did was helping negotiate the handing back of Hong Kong to the PRC
I gotta laugh at the reactions.... seems like all the Brits are rejoicing and the only people RIPing are American conservatives.
Nah, there's more than a few over here as well, particularly among the tories. They seemed to have forgotten THEY were the ones that stabbed her in the back. Still, that's one of the more noteworthy abilities of the right... to rewrite history when you find it inconvenient.