Steely Tom starts off:
Later Freepers just drop that last attempt to tie in with current events entirely.Margaret Thatcher’s elevation to Prime Minister in 1979 was the first sign, for me, of hope during a most depressing time. The press here in America had not so much as mentioned her name before he election to high office, which only made it seem more sudden and shocking when she began to be heard publicly, a down-the-line conservative who made no apologies and took no grief from anyone.
Let this story be the same sort of harbinger for us, 31 years later.
manc:
I know about maggie and she was great, she broke the unions especially scargill and the miners and that is why most hate her , well that and the likes of the BBC lying as usual.Jim 0216:
Frantzie:What a time that was. Thatcher, then Reagan, the culmination of a never-before-seen (in many years) nation-wide prolonged corporate intercessory prayer in many churches for this country and the world. God answered those prayers with this really pretty miraculous time with people like Jeanne Kirkpatrick in the U.N. also.
I hope our prayers now can avail like that now, but with an added end of abortion-infanticide.
Anyone remember her telling RINO Poppy Bush not to “Go Wobbly.”Cold Heat comes in for a little on-topic:
Hopefully tomorrow is a new day but the Tories are too soft.The Bear? Russia? Wow, it must really be 1979!For the most part, they are right wing lefties compared to our politics. Unfortunately for GB, they have submerged themselves in socialism.
We can't afford to do likewise. Who would then protect the lefties from the Bear?
As ever, Freepers don't know what they're talking about. Thus far, we have a hung parliament, which means that the three main parties will be too busy arguing (possibly arm-wrestling) who gets what where and when to drop many bombs on people. Cameron will probably get no. 10, but that won't mean so much if there's a lot of Lib Dems etc around being annoying. Which I hope there are.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but Thatcher is like the only way Freepers seem to interact with England, unless it is to be offended at Obama on their behalf.
ReplyDeleteThis is because they put the Reagan years on a ridiculous pedestal, I'm sure. If the French president of the time (for example) had been as fawning towards Reagan as Thatcher was, they'd all be big Mitterand fans too.
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