Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister of Great Britain. She was also a great influence to British politics, serving longer as Prime Minister than any other in the 20th Century. Her impact on Britain was sweeping and lasting, leaving a market economy and a more right-wing Conservative party.
Here is a list of reasons why Thatcher was important. Try to understand that Britain was pretty much on the brink on self-destruction in the mid-late 70s. Britain was known as the sick man of Europe due to the strength of union activity that led to a great deal of strikes. The country was pretty much controlled by an aggresive form of old-style Socialism.
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You will get a different answer depending on the answered I would guess. She was either loved or hated - and still is...
In truth, she (along with President Reagan) changed much of the world's politics - the advent of consumerism (consumer choice) - privatisation and removing the monolpoly and making way for competition.
For the UK her years saw the GDP to soar 25%, spending on Law and order (+53%), Employment and Training (+33%), Healthy (+32%) and social security (+32%) to all rise (against what is popularly belived) and transport (-6%), trade and industry (-38% Gov no longersupportin expensive utilities etc that were now in the private sector), House (-67% getting rid of long term Gov poverty housing by allowing the tenant a right to buy saved a large fortune!), and unbelievable defence (-3%).
So, in short she saved a lot of cash from traditional money black holes and still increased services foir the poor and needy (and allowed poor people to buy their homes to give them the ability to get a step up).
She was famous for the Poll Tax whcih caused riots - but was really just misunderstood and badly flamed in propoganda - Brints ended up paying community tax instead which was still better than the old Rates system which no longer generated enough local taxes, but actually worked out worse than poll tax for the poor and elderly - as she said it would.
Her policies allowed Britain to come out of recession and to create the best economy the country had seen in modern times - with the best reserves since mid Victorian times (all wasted and plundered by New Labvour when sold off for cheap cash at 50C on the Dollar during a boom when Gold is at its lowest!!!)
She declared in November 1988, "We're not in a Cold War now" but rather in a "new relationship much wider than the Cold War ever was" - and worked with Reagon and Gorbachev - and was one of the first leaders to meet with him.
SHe and Reagan built that special relationship that strains these days - help was a two way street with diplomacy (see Bombing of Libya and IRA extradition treaty).
It also seems her staunch stand against joining nthe Euro (pushed by just about all of her enemies on all sides!) was the correct one.
She was PM during the Falkland's war also - and it is said the iron lady cried during a personal meeting with her cobinet over the loss of life that would occur! She also pushed/convinced Bush (Snr) to send troops in to Kuwait to repell the Iraqi invasion there.
In August 1992 Thatcher called for NATO to stop the Serbian assault on Goražde and Sarajevo to end ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian War. She compared the situation in Bosnia to "the worst excesses of the Nazis", and warned that there could be a "holocaust"
In March 2002 her book Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, dedicated to Ronald Reagan, was released. In it, she claimed there would be no peace in the Middle East until Saddam Hussein was toppled, that Israel must trade land for peace, and that the European Union was "fundamentally unreformable", "a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure". She argued that Britain should renegotiate its terms of membership or else leave the EU and join the North American Free Trade Area.
She was in power during the Falkland war and also the 1994 Iraq war. Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister was the longest since that of Lord Salisubry and the longest continuous period in office since Lord Liverpool in the early 19th century. She was the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom, and the first of only three women to hold any of the four great offices of state. She holds a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, which entitles her to sit in the House of Lords.
She had parkinsons decease
she has done charity work
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Margaret Thatcher is the correct spelling, just as you had it.
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What was Margaret Thatchers Story?
Margaret Thatcher was a Christian, a member of the Church of England
She had parkinsons decease
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if im not mistaken it is on wednesday 17th
10 May 1915.
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Yes, Carol and Mark Thatcher are twins.
John Major was Margaret Thatchers succesor as prime minister.
Margaret was Dennis Thatchers 2nd wife.....