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NLTownie's avatar

Hatcher had no basic humanity. Cheney does. Hatcher was on an ego trip to try to outdo Queen Elizabeth in glamour and gravitas. Cheney just wants he country’s commitment to democracy back.

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Damian Penny's avatar

Thatcher's policies caused a lot of pain and disruption, but I think Britain desperately needed her at the time.

BTW, with that username who you have to be from Newfoundland, right?

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NLTownie's avatar

Someone at least understand some of the colloquialisms if not the accent… or mayhap you are from these rocky shores yourself with a name like yours - more than a bit of the Irish in you.

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Carol S.'s avatar

A British friend says that people who vilify Thatcher generally don't know or disregard what a bad state Britain was in before she became PM.

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Damian Penny's avatar

If the US was in a "malaise" in the seventies, the UK was suffering from clinical depression.

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James Ackerman's avatar

Losing an empire by penstroke does that

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