Yup totally right.

Lots of those houses were built as social housing after the war. What she did ripped up that original intent.

Sure it was great for the selfish few able to buy quality property on the cheap...Much cheaper than they deserved. But what the net affect of that was to pull up the ladder for the next generation....Now we really do have a housing crises....And while it's important to point out that Thatcher left twenty odd years ago and that this damage could have been fixed during the boom years....It wasn't....But it did start with her.

To my mind it was the worst thing Thatcher did.....Still, compared to the Labour option we had against her, she was still the better choice for the country.

Even if some loathsome individuals did very well off the back of her policies.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

From your article...

With the U.N. Security Council plus Germany (the so-called P5+1) nowadays adopting what she once described in another context as "the politics of the pre-emptive cringe" toward Iran's development of a nuclear bomb, we could do with the late Lady Thatcher's clear-sighted and full-throated denunciation of pusillanimity in international affairs. When she was in power, her attitude toward dictatorships' threats and bullying—be it the Argentine junta over the Falkland Islands or Saddam Hussein before the Gulf War—was precisely the tough and uncompromising stance from which the P5+1 group constantly shrinks.[/u] The advice she gave to President George H.W. Bush in 1990—"This is no time to go wobbly, George"—is desperately needed today.

Hmm, different attitude towards Pinochet though.

If she had known you were half-Scottish she would never have allowed you to have bought those five houses.

Big chest and massive boobs

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This Spanish bloke has got it just about right;

"Felipe Sahagun writes in El Mundo: "For her admirers, she put the 'Great' back into Great Britain. For her critics, she was an ideologue who legitimised inequality, made education and health worse, caused terrible damage to public services, prostituted the prestigious BBC and destroyed the British people's deep-rooted sense of solidarity and civic pride."

Big chest and massive boobs

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Pretty much how any neutral European sees it. Showed some balls with the Falklands and in forcing through necessary economic changes, but essentially took things too far the other way and ushered in an era of corporate greed, over-privatization and a massive over reliance on the under-regulated financial sector for stability and growth. The current financial crisis owes as much if not more to her legacy as to Labour.

Block B comment of 2011/2012 Season:

"That's better Palace, better...but still fucking shit!"

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Dann to Much, Much to Yong.

I well remember back in the 80's unemployed without a pot to piss in, going without food for 4 days and being arrested for not paying my poll tax. Rot you bitch rot

I support Scotland, Hibs and the Palace, no glory hunters here!!!!!!

PLEASE SIR, CAN I HAVE A PIE!!