I think we need to reference post 58, and folks thinking beyond their station.
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She would have tho! 
He’s the devil and she’d be his number one witch 
*During the European witch trials, folklore dictated that witches signed a pact with the devil, making them his earthly accomplices. They were believed to carry out his malevolent bidding in exchange for supernatural powers.
Not entirely convinced that referring to people who you disagree with as the devil and a witch is helpful.
Personally, I’d like to have asked her to explain what she intended to do to help those who her policies threw into personal crises, and how she intended to inculcate a replacement for local cohesion that would also be a corollary of her theories.
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I agree @Dextrous63, name calling lowers the discussion to that of the playground. Mind you, I think Mrs Thatcher would have sorted that out, she didn’t tolerate fools.
I would ask her how she would deal with this rabble we have in Government at the moment, although I think I probably know the answer anyway.
Whatever anyone thinks of Mrs Thatcher we all knew where we stood with her; unlike the useless lot we have to put up with at the moment who change direction like the wind.
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There seems to be a view that she was a dictator. In reality, she was voted in three times and the alternatives were not, which maybe suggests something about their policies, qualities and ability to communicate.
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You are able to say the same of Tony Blair. Does that mean you would also state that this suggests something about his policies, qualities and ability to communicate?
You are deflecting here I think. Surely that is a topic for a separate thread - this one is about Mrs Thatcher not Tony Blair!
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No, sorry but what I did was compare, not deflect. I was simply highlighting that if one makes a claim about the positive attributes of a PM justified by winning three times then such attributes surely carry across to another PM winning three times. If they do not carry across to this other PM then the basis of the claim (winning three times) is surely false. There is no deflection to discuss Blair; there is only a challenge to the logic of the claim about Thatcher.
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I don’t think the thread was meant to be a point scoring exercise between PM’s… 
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As i recall, Thatcher’s last year or so in office was fairly shambolic.
The poll tax was her downfall - people just had enough at that point, and came together to show their ‘disapproval’ staging protests, and the poll tax riots were instrumental in scrapping the controversial so called ‘community’ charge a year or two after its inception.
They had enough of Thatcher as well, and she ‘resigned’ as a result.
The rest is history.
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Another example of not being able to please all of the people, all of the time.
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The Blame Game Again.
Played by The Lame.
Progression stalled by worthless Regression.
[Water under the Bridge]
A Bridge That Burnham. Just three months in.
Inheritor of the Poisened Chalice.
A Conscious Competence Model. Addressing Priorities.
That need a very much longer Bridge. That can only be built.
By British Grit And Patience.
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I would say Hello Mrs Thatcher, when I lived in Finchley you were my MP.
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I was originally suggesting that it is the lack of such facets that led to other parties failing to make much headway in stopping the tories at the time, including even at the 1992 election.
And yes, it is fair to say that where parties are able to get into office on several consecutive occasions, it is a combination of the perceived strength of them compared to the failings of the other(s).
IMHO
Thanks for the clarification and I’d agree that individual appeal on one side with lack of appeal on the other side will deliver a predictable result.
Plus on re-reading your post you were making the observation about the weakness/faillings of the opposition. Of course, in doing so there is an implied praise for the same about the person who won - their policies, qualities and ability to communicate were better and more apppealing.
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I’d probably panic as Thatcher has been gone for years it wouldn’t be a pretty sight.
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Thatcher made fools of everyone of even those who would otherwise have been reasonably smart:
https://www.tiktok.com/@windrushwasp/video/7701786246737071382
He explains why privatisation was a scam.
She was a despicable piece of poo.
She was a crafty little minx, she made dedicated socialists hypocrites, with her Council House sell off’s, it was her fault there was no such thing as society, the profits from the sell off meant that folks could move from semi’s to “Detatched” 