Lady Thatcher passed away

[the_jubjub_bird]

She was the greatest PM of the peace time. She helped to crash the USSR. She crashed the unions who held the country to ransom.
She was a great statesman and a beautiful woman.


R.I.P.

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[yurri.livejournal.com]

Defeated a fascist junta, signed Single European Act, introduced PACE, repealed capital punishment, made the case for climate action...

[the-jubjub-bird.livejournal.com]

"And we can't avoid one unchallengeable truth. The Government has no money of its own. All that it has it takes in taxes or borrows at interest. It's all of you—everyone here—that pays. "

"But working more closely together does not require power to be centralised in Brussels or decisions to be taken by an appointed bureaucracy.

Indeed, it is ironic that just when those countries such as the Soviet Union, which have tried to run everything from the centre, are learning that success depends on dispersing power and decisions away from the centre, there are some in the Community who seem to want to move in the opposite direction.

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels. "