Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

[Vosem]

RIP to a great leader. The whole world, not just Britain, needs -- and deserves -- more leaders who act as she did.

"No qualms about making enemies" but in a slightly different way, brittain.

I don't care for garbage to "be nice" to my hero; I care for them to be respectful. But I guess I expect too much from the slime.

When Chavez died, lot of right wingers lacked those sensibilities. Whether people agree or disagree about whether Thatcher was a good thing for Britain, it's objective fact that her policies threw thousands of Britons into permanent poverty and ruined entire communities. There are good reasons some people hate her, and I think those people should be allow to show their feelings for her.

I'm pretty confident both Chavez and Thatcher would hate to be compared to the other. And there is no comparison, but I'll try to avoid interrupting people's mourning with politics.

[Vosem]

I'm pretty confident both Chavez and Thatcher would hate to be compared to the other.

Yes likely they would, one more reason to do so

Thatcher abhorred all that Chavez stood for, and vice versa. Why would they enjoy being compared?

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Really? They was two democratic elected politician, who both favoured their vote segment over the good of the country and both lacked any respect for informal check and balances and was willing to change the election structures to weaken their opponents. Chavec was nothing but a left wing version of Thatcher, no matter how much his supporters would hate to hear it.

Chavez used control of the government to bring the media under his control; Chavez reformed the old democratic structure to reinforce his own control. Neither of those are things that Thatcher did; it's the difference between dictatorship and democracy. One crossed the line, the other did not.

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Mourning... no one here knew her, that like not talking bad about Britney Spears because of "Leave Britney Alone" girl.

You can still mourn someone you never knew for the positive effects they had on the world around them. I don't know what you mean about Britney Spears

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You may have missed another recent obituary, that of Alastair Milne. He was the Director General of the BBC and was effectively fired by the Thatcher government for political reasons. Try again...

Right, but the BBC is governed by the British government; it isn't a private company. Callaghan's Ministers also had to leave office -- you expect positions to shift when you elect a new government, otherwise what would be the point of democracy? But privately owned leftist newspapers continued to function just as before.

Vosem, I'm guessing you're not familiar with the London County Council or its successor.

I'm not; a quick Wikipedia glance informs me that it was disbanded in 1965. Please do tell me more.