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pooley Aug 21, 2009 16:11:17
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elegant chaos wrote:
I refer you to the last sentence of my previous post.
Ok, that was a flip answer. And curse you for putting me in a position where I am defending Thatch!!!
But,
Without a doubt she was one of the most popular leaders this country has ever seen. A lot of people STILL call for her to return to politics, still get dewy eyed when talking about her time in parliament.Still think she was one of the best things that ever happened to this country.


She has influenced (wrongly, in my opinion) party leaders of all sides since her time ended. And just because a certain chancellor was elected in the 30's DOES NOT MEAN THAT EVERY ONE WHO HAS BEEN ELECTED SINCE HAS TO BE JUDGED BY WHAT THAT CHANCELLOR DID ARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

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elegant chaos Aug 21, 2009 16:35:14
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I'm not judging her by what that chancellor did, I'm judging her by what she did.

All I'm saying is - the fact that that particular chancellor was elected, the fact that she was elected, and I'll add the fact that Blair was elected, means that they all share two things in common

1 - The obvious - they had the most votes - thereby the most "popular"

2 - Much of the electorate were undeniably conned

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Popel Vooje Aug 21, 2009 17:30:48
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pooley wrote:
elegant chaos wrote:
I refer you to the last sentence of my previous post.
Ok, that was a flip answer. And curse you for putting me in a position where I am defending Thatch!!!
But,
Without a doubt she was one of the most popular leaders this country has ever seen. A lot of people STILL call for her to return to politics, still get dewy eyed when talking about her time in parliament.Still think she was one of the best things that ever happened to this country.
...mostly people who are too young to remember the 80s in any detail at all, in my experience of arguing these things.

Even many of the people who voted for her three times realised that she'd lost the plot by the end of her time in office. Even the majority of the cabinet ministers she appointed were pragmatic enough to realise that.