The Iron Lady

56 Replies to “The Iron Lady”

1. I keep thinking about this here, “umbrella of conservatism” thingee that she created, which means a great deal to a great many people.
   You turn if you want to, this particular Heart of Oak is not for turning. And there are a great many more of us than can be killed through conventional means.
   RIP, Margaret Hilda Thatcher: we prayed for your eternal peace this evening.

2. When Tony led New Labour into office as PM of Britain, the first thing he did was acknowledge that Thatcher was right, not in words, but in deed. He did not turn back the major parts of her government’s policy. It was New Labour and not old Labour because of Thatcher and not because of someone within Labour. Labour did not win power again until they had divested themselves of what they were before Thatcher.

3. The left is going to look back on Margaret Thatcher and realise not just its inherent wrongness but its insignificance. She has always overshadowed them and, with more and more retrospect, will seem an even greater leader than when she was in the seat of power.
   Just my thoughts.

4. Yes, phil. The Falkland Islands are very valuable “real estate”. Why, there’s some sheep… and rocks…. probably a lighthouse….

5. Hans is correct, and I’d confess a bit of surprise that anyone here would disagree with him, given the “stand-on-principle” advocacy so often voiced.
   The Falklands were — and are — a principle. And they’re an investment against the “unmeasured dangers of the future”, as Churchill said in the 1930s. Kind of like, you know, the great Canadian North West was before the invention of the internal combustion engine. Well, maybe not — nothing ever came of that policy either, did it? Just a bunch of INM and AGW truthers, or something, at last check.
   The huge irony is that HMQ was over here signing the obsessed “gunslinger’s” (Mr. Trudeau, Sr.’s) constitution while HRH Prince Andrew was flying decoy in the south Atlantic (who’s your daddy, really?). And Mrs. Thatcher was the indispensable central figure in both operations: it remains a matter of historical record that the 1982 constitution is still — still — an act of the British Parliament.

6. Margaret Thatcher
   Friend to the productive.
   Opposed by parasites.
   Rest in peace.