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GreenPartyVoter

(72,381 posts)
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 08:23 PM Dec 2017

Watching "The Iron Lady," about PM Thatcher.

It's interesting to learn more about her as a person, but her policies were still an atrocity. I can remember my Dad yelling at Raygun on the TV, and he had some choice words for her as well!

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Watching "The Iron Lady," about PM Thatcher. (Original Post) GreenPartyVoter Dec 2017 OP
The movie was made in an interesting style Yupster Dec 2017 #1
Good movie about a horrible person. PragmaticDem Dec 2017 #2
Yes shenmue Dec 2017 #5
Good film! Bad Prime Minister! LeftishBrit Dec 2017 #3
Check out her record on war vs Tony Blair's record n/t delisen Dec 2017 #4
Falklands, anyone? shenmue Dec 2017 #6
Iraq anyone? Tony Blair knew Bush lied about Iraq- delisen Dec 2017 #7

Yupster

(14,308 posts)
1. The movie was made in an interesting style
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 08:38 PM
Dec 2017

Telling her story in her dotage with flashbacks to her years in power. It was different. I liked it.

delisen

(6,044 posts)
7. Iraq anyone? Tony Blair knew Bush lied about Iraq-
Sun Dec 31, 2017, 05:19 AM
Dec 2017

Blair, as Prime Minister and head of the Labour Party hid what he knew from his country (that the Americans were fixing the facts to get a desired outcome). He stood up in Parliament instead and said that Britain must pay the "Blood Price" and go to war.

Thatcher on the other hand, when Argentina mounted an invasion of the Falkland Islands invaded, laid out the facts, and sought support in Parliament for defending. Also the Falkland Islands people did not want rule by Argentina.

Outcome: 74 days of conflict. Death statistics for UK and Falkland Islanders: 255 British military, 3 Falkland Islanders.

Labour Party Tony Blair's insistence on a "blood price" while he kept secret from the people the knowledge that his demand that Britain go to war in Iraq was built on a lie.

British involvement lasted six years. I don't think Iraqi civilian deaths due to British involvement has ever been calculated.





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