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Obituary: Thatcher 1925-2013 chemistry degree and married wealthy businessman 46
Denis Thatcher in 1951. They produced twins,
Monday 08 April 2013 Mark and Carol, in 1953. 46
After switching to the legal profession, Thatcher
by Roger Bagley became MP for Finchley in 1959 and was elected
Tory leader in 1975 after deposing Edward Heath
Margaret Thatcher was an arrogant government positions and she ruthlessly purged in a ballot of MPs. 1392 نیدرورف23 جمعه- 1234 شماره/ سال متسیب
narrow-minded bigot who tore her male ministers again and again, while the In recent years, she became confused and semi-
Britain apart in her ruthless crusade Thatcherite faithful denounced her hapless Tory detached from bourgeois society after suffering In touch with Iranian diversity
for hard-faced capitalism. opponents as "wets." strokes and dementia.
As Tory prime minister from 1979 to For some reason, she spared her deputy, the The ruling class continued to fete her and the Queen Vol. 20 / No. 1234 - Friday, Apr. 12, 2013
1990, she pursued crazed monetarist bumbling old-style Tory gent Willie Whitelaw, attended her 80th birthday party.
economic policies, destroyed millions from the purges. She famously declared: "Everyone New Labour prime minister Gordon Brown
of manufacturing jobs, slashed public needs a Willie." disgraced himself by welcoming her to Downing
spending and devastated Britain's To consolidate her grip on power, she substantially Street for the unveiling of a portrait in November
industrial heartlands. changed her voice and bearing. She took speaking 2009.
Her star-struck Tory supporters lessons, deepened her voice and adopted a slower Millions of her working-class victims loathed and
hailed her as a goddess of wealth and more deliberate style. despised her to the end.
creation and conquerer of socialism, while Thatcher believed she was invincible. She ----
millions of angry working-class people saw her - frequently referred to herself using the royal "we."
inaccurately - as an evil fascist witch. She hugely relished Soviet journalists' description The Iron Lady in quotes
Far from adopting fascist economic policies for of her as the "Iron Lady." "There is no such thing as society. There are
Britain, she was in fact a fanatical believer in the But when the Tories finally summoned up the individual men and women and there are families."
gospel of unbridled free-market capitalism. courage to revolt against her in November 1990, "(Victorian values) were the values when our
Together with right-wing US president Ronald she left Downing Street in tears. country became great."
Reagan, she sowed the seeds of today's global She narrowly escaped death in 1984 when an IRA "A world without nuclear weapons would be less
capitalist crisis, and lit the torch of obscene bomb ripped through the Tory conference hotel in stable and more dangerous for all of us."
profiteering and greed which was later eagerly Brighton, killing five people. "I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man
taken up by Tony Blair and new Labour. On the world stage, two of her greatest heroes were and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If
Thatcher stormed to three successive election president Reagan and Chilean dictator and mass you're a man or woman of property, you've got
victories and ruled for 11-and-a-half years as murderer Augusto Pinochet. something. So every man a capitalist, and every
prime minister. Thatcher refused to support sanctions against man a man of property."
Her grip on power was aided and abetted by a rabid the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa and "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my
Tory press - and by serious divisions on the left. condemned Nelson Mandela and the ANC as own way in the end."
A trendy revisionist fad developed among sections "terrorists." "I don't mind how much my ministers talk, so long
of the left, including some members of the One of her defining moments was ordering the as they do what I say."
Communist Party, whereby it was suggested that sinking of the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano "I just owe almost everything to my father and it's
the class struggle was out of date, Britain did not with the loss of 321 lives during the Falklands war passionately interesting for me that the things that I
really need its large-scale manufacturing industries in May 1982. learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are
and that trade unions should accept their decline The British submarine HMS Conquerer torpedoed just the things that I believe have won the election."
amid "the forward march of labour halted." the Argentinian warship, even though it was outside "The battle for women's rights has been largely won."
Thatcher launched a full-scale onslaught in 1984 the British-imposed "exclusion zone" at the time. "Standing in the middle of the road is very
against Britain's miners, branding the mineworkers' Tory leader David Cameron felt it wise to publicly dangerous - you get knocked down by the traffic
union and left-wing trade unionists as "the enemy repudiate Thatcher's infamous declaration that "there from both sides."
within" and mobilising the police and secret service is no such thing as society" and he also personally "There are still people in my party who believe in
to harass, infiltrate and destabilise the left during apologised to Mandela for her "terrorists" slur. consensus politics. I regard them as quislings, as
the year-long miners' strike. But upon winning power, Cameron bared his real traitors ... I mean it."
She also attacked pensions by cutting the link with Thatcherite fangs and carried to new extremes the "Where there is discord, may we bring harmony …
earnings, introduced vicious anti-union laws, sold Tories' class war assault on the workers, the poor where there is despair, may we bring hope."
off huge swathes of council housing, abolished the and the sick - launching vicious policies which "Scabs? Their former workmates call them scabs?
Greater London Council and tightened the central Thatcher in her day could only dream of. They are lions. What a tragedy when a striking
government stranglehold over local authorities. Margaret Hilda Roberts was brought up in a miner attacks his workmate. Not only are they
Yet she managed to con millions of working people narrow-minded, austere, petit-bourgeois home members of the same union but the working miner
into voting Tory. in Grantham, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Tory- is saving both their futures."
Some were duped by the quick buck to be made from inclined grocers. "I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As
shares issued to the public following privatisation Her father Alfred Roberts was a local councillor for someone put it in one of the papers this morning -
of large public companies such as British Telecom, 25 years, representing the Ratepayers Association Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx
British Airways, Rolls-Royce, British Steel, gas, and the Chamber of Trade. and Engels."
electricity and water supply. She graduated from Oxford University with a "And what a prize we have to fight for - no less than
These valuable national assets were all sold off dirt the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive
cheap amid a sordid "loads a money" spectacular. clouds of Marxist socialism."
Former Tory prime minister Harold Macmillan "I like Mr Gorbachov, we can do business together."
publicly accused Thatcher of selling off the "I was brought up very, very seriously. I was a very
"family silver." serious child and we were not allowed to go out to
He protested that her government had "got away much entertainment. Going out to a film was a very
with the selling of assets on a colossal scale, assets great treat."
that can never be replaced." "I don't think I ever went to a dance until I went
The authoritarian Thatcher steamrollered her to university. Dancing was frowned upon by my
policies through a spineless Cabinet at Downing parents - dancing was forbidden."
Street without any real discussion. "To those waiting with bated breath for that
She avoided promoting women to senior favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have
only one thing to say - you turn if you want to. The
lady's not for turning."
"As God once said, and I think rightly..."
Obituary: Thatcher 1925-2013 chemistry degree and married wealthy businessman 46
Denis Thatcher in 1951. They produced twins,
Monday 08 April 2013 Mark and Carol, in 1953. 46
After switching to the legal profession, Thatcher
by Roger Bagley became MP for Finchley in 1959 and was elected
Tory leader in 1975 after deposing Edward Heath
Margaret Thatcher was an arrogant government positions and she ruthlessly purged in a ballot of MPs. 1392 نیدرورف23 جمعه- 1234 شماره/ سال متسیب
narrow-minded bigot who tore her male ministers again and again, while the In recent years, she became confused and semi-
Britain apart in her ruthless crusade Thatcherite faithful denounced her hapless Tory detached from bourgeois society after suffering In touch with Iranian diversity
for hard-faced capitalism. opponents as "wets." strokes and dementia.
As Tory prime minister from 1979 to For some reason, she spared her deputy, the The ruling class continued to fete her and the Queen Vol. 20 / No. 1234 - Friday, Apr. 12, 2013
1990, she pursued crazed monetarist bumbling old-style Tory gent Willie Whitelaw, attended her 80th birthday party.
economic policies, destroyed millions from the purges. She famously declared: "Everyone New Labour prime minister Gordon Brown
of manufacturing jobs, slashed public needs a Willie." disgraced himself by welcoming her to Downing
spending and devastated Britain's To consolidate her grip on power, she substantially Street for the unveiling of a portrait in November
industrial heartlands. changed her voice and bearing. She took speaking 2009.
Her star-struck Tory supporters lessons, deepened her voice and adopted a slower Millions of her working-class victims loathed and
hailed her as a goddess of wealth and more deliberate style. despised her to the end.
creation and conquerer of socialism, while Thatcher believed she was invincible. She ----
millions of angry working-class people saw her - frequently referred to herself using the royal "we."
inaccurately - as an evil fascist witch. She hugely relished Soviet journalists' description The Iron Lady in quotes
Far from adopting fascist economic policies for of her as the "Iron Lady." "There is no such thing as society. There are
Britain, she was in fact a fanatical believer in the But when the Tories finally summoned up the individual men and women and there are families."
gospel of unbridled free-market capitalism. courage to revolt against her in November 1990, "(Victorian values) were the values when our
Together with right-wing US president Ronald she left Downing Street in tears. country became great."
Reagan, she sowed the seeds of today's global She narrowly escaped death in 1984 when an IRA "A world without nuclear weapons would be less
capitalist crisis, and lit the torch of obscene bomb ripped through the Tory conference hotel in stable and more dangerous for all of us."
profiteering and greed which was later eagerly Brighton, killing five people. "I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man
taken up by Tony Blair and new Labour. On the world stage, two of her greatest heroes were and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If
Thatcher stormed to three successive election president Reagan and Chilean dictator and mass you're a man or woman of property, you've got
victories and ruled for 11-and-a-half years as murderer Augusto Pinochet. something. So every man a capitalist, and every
prime minister. Thatcher refused to support sanctions against man a man of property."
Her grip on power was aided and abetted by a rabid the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa and "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my
Tory press - and by serious divisions on the left. condemned Nelson Mandela and the ANC as own way in the end."
A trendy revisionist fad developed among sections "terrorists." "I don't mind how much my ministers talk, so long
of the left, including some members of the One of her defining moments was ordering the as they do what I say."
Communist Party, whereby it was suggested that sinking of the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano "I just owe almost everything to my father and it's
the class struggle was out of date, Britain did not with the loss of 321 lives during the Falklands war passionately interesting for me that the things that I
really need its large-scale manufacturing industries in May 1982. learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are
and that trade unions should accept their decline The British submarine HMS Conquerer torpedoed just the things that I believe have won the election."
amid "the forward march of labour halted." the Argentinian warship, even though it was outside "The battle for women's rights has been largely won."
Thatcher launched a full-scale onslaught in 1984 the British-imposed "exclusion zone" at the time. "Standing in the middle of the road is very
against Britain's miners, branding the mineworkers' Tory leader David Cameron felt it wise to publicly dangerous - you get knocked down by the traffic
union and left-wing trade unionists as "the enemy repudiate Thatcher's infamous declaration that "there from both sides."
within" and mobilising the police and secret service is no such thing as society" and he also personally "There are still people in my party who believe in
to harass, infiltrate and destabilise the left during apologised to Mandela for her "terrorists" slur. consensus politics. I regard them as quislings, as
the year-long miners' strike. But upon winning power, Cameron bared his real traitors ... I mean it."
She also attacked pensions by cutting the link with Thatcherite fangs and carried to new extremes the "Where there is discord, may we bring harmony …
earnings, introduced vicious anti-union laws, sold Tories' class war assault on the workers, the poor where there is despair, may we bring hope."
off huge swathes of council housing, abolished the and the sick - launching vicious policies which "Scabs? Their former workmates call them scabs?
Greater London Council and tightened the central Thatcher in her day could only dream of. They are lions. What a tragedy when a striking
government stranglehold over local authorities. Margaret Hilda Roberts was brought up in a miner attacks his workmate. Not only are they
Yet she managed to con millions of working people narrow-minded, austere, petit-bourgeois home members of the same union but the working miner
into voting Tory. in Grantham, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Tory- is saving both their futures."
Some were duped by the quick buck to be made from inclined grocers. "I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As
shares issued to the public following privatisation Her father Alfred Roberts was a local councillor for someone put it in one of the papers this morning -
of large public companies such as British Telecom, 25 years, representing the Ratepayers Association Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx
British Airways, Rolls-Royce, British Steel, gas, and the Chamber of Trade. and Engels."
electricity and water supply. She graduated from Oxford University with a "And what a prize we have to fight for - no less than
These valuable national assets were all sold off dirt the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive
cheap amid a sordid "loads a money" spectacular. clouds of Marxist socialism."
Former Tory prime minister Harold Macmillan "I like Mr Gorbachov, we can do business together."
publicly accused Thatcher of selling off the "I was brought up very, very seriously. I was a very
"family silver." serious child and we were not allowed to go out to
He protested that her government had "got away much entertainment. Going out to a film was a very
with the selling of assets on a colossal scale, assets great treat."
that can never be replaced." "I don't think I ever went to a dance until I went
The authoritarian Thatcher steamrollered her to university. Dancing was frowned upon by my
policies through a spineless Cabinet at Downing parents - dancing was forbidden."
Street without any real discussion. "To those waiting with bated breath for that
She avoided promoting women to senior favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have
only one thing to say - you turn if you want to. The
lady's not for turning."
"As God once said, and I think rightly..."
