|
|
| |
Forum Overview
::
Motherfucking News
|
| |
|
by skip 04/10/2013, 6:50pm PDT |
|
 |
|
 |
|
Coal mining and steel were heavily subsidized by the government because they were dying industries and unions were ridiculously powerful. Downsizing them was the right thing to do, economically. Her denouncement of Mandela's org as "terrorists" was essentially correct (they did bomb government organizations) and she denounced apartheid in principal. She refused economic sanctions, but this seems petty since the same liberal contingency that bitches about that also bitches about when the US imposed sanctions on Iraq since it devastated their economy and mainly hurt the poor. She was also pretty progressive in terms of drug, HIV, gun, and environmental policy. Her policy towards homosexuality was friendlier than most other conservatives of the time (yes section 28, which was never enforced, but she voted to decriminalize it the 1960s unlike Reagan who refused to admit it even existed). She raised NHS and education spending. Unemployment rose but she traded that for getting inflation under control. Taxes overall went up during her tenure.
I'm not going to say she was World's Greatest Conservative or whatever nonsense Fox has been saying. She went insane with power by her third term, the poll tax was a horrible idea especially she had raised taxes on lower income brackets, imposed a higher VAT, and unemployment was still double digits. Her deregulation of the financial industry probably contributed to the recent financial crash. She divided her own party and they eventually forced her to step down. Her foreign policy wasn't generally well thought out unless it involved Gorbachev or fighting with Argentina. But, I haven't read one person who seriously wants to reverse her economic policies of industrial deregulation or most of her social policies. If she was starting in American politics today, she'd be a very conservative Democrat, more Andrew Sullivan than Ann Coulter. It's also strange how much criticism of her involves comparing her to a man, as though women politicians are supposed to bring cookies and talk about their kids. We got that in Palin and, answer honestly, which is worse? |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
Thatcher died. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/08/2013, 4:02pm PDT 
Do the Margaret Thatcher, y'all. by MC F. 04/08/2013, 9:21pm PDT
Really, you can't go to Slate for that? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 04/08/2013, 9:57pm PDT
Does anyone know what he's talking about? NT by Matthew Holland 04/09/2013, 12:36am PDT
Even the shmups forum is locking and banning Thatcher threads. Weird. by Mischief Maker 04/09/2013, 6:25am PDT
Slate's comments section is a massive circlejerk about how much they hate her. NT by Get out more. 04/10/2013, 8:07pm PDT
Get out more = go to Slate? by Matthew Holland 04/10/2013, 9:25pm PDT
What a shriveled, dried up cunt she was NT by your best friend 04/09/2013, 12:16am PDT
The consensus I'm getting from the media by Fullofkittens 04/09/2013, 5:55am PDT
She was a terrible person by Souffle of Pain 04/09/2013, 11:24am PDT
Listen to this guy, he knows a lot about Maggie. NT by Her grieving husband 04/10/2013, 6:59pm PDT
What are you, an IRA sympathizer? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 04/10/2013, 8:05pm PDT
After doing some reading, I'm ambivalent. by skip 04/10/2013, 6:50pm PDT
Don't be. by Gutsby 04/12/2013, 4:01pm PDT
Re: Don't be. by Mischief Maker 04/12/2013, 4:18pm PDT
I'm sure people who were personally affected are angry by skip 04/12/2013, 5:17pm PDT
Russell Brand on Thatcher by Fullofkittens 04/12/2013, 6:25pm PDT
The first time he's ever cared if a person's kids were being cuddled enough. NT by skip 04/13/2013, 10:42am PDT
Re: I'm sure people who were personally affected are angry by blackwater park 05/19/2013, 12:19am PDT
My favorite Thatcher story by Mischief Maker 04/12/2013, 6:59pm PDT
Thatcher DID NOT die. The Iron Lady simply rusted away... NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/03/2013, 2:51am PDT
Very droll, sir. Will you be taking your tea now sir, or go fuck yourself? NT by Paul's butler 05/03/2013, 11:02am PDT
|
|
| |
|
| |
