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Margaret Thatcher: United States
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Margaret Thatcher was a great leader who helped bring down the Soviet Union, which coincidentally is the same risky scheme that the Stalinist Hillary wants to bring to the United States. It's over...GET OUT
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Margaret Thatcher combatively attacked the Europe envisaged by Jacques Delors, the President of the European Commission. In a speech to the European Parliament before the Bruges speech Delors had predicted that 80% of decisions would be taken at European level in ten years time. His was an inward-looking Europe of state-sponsored corporatism where decisions were taken at supranational level and sovereignty transferred to Brussels. Unelected Commissioners, Delors hoped, would enforce unitary policies across Western Europe and in the process create a uniform European superpower to rival the United States. Lip service was paid to democracy through the machinations of the European Parliament which, in reality, was a tame tabby cat without teeth or claws.
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Margaret Thatcher actively supported the Conservative general election campaign in 2001. In the Conservative leadership election shortly after, Lady Thatcher came out in support of Iain Duncan Smith because she believed he would "make infinitely the better leader" than Kenneth Clarke due to Clarke's "old-fashioned views of the role of the state and his unbounded enthusiasm for European integration".[14]
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Thatcher's political and economic philosophy emphasised reduced state intervention, free markets, and entrepreneurialism. Since gaining power, she had experimented in selling off a small nationalised company, the National Freight Company, to its workers, with a surprisingly positive response. After the 1983 election, the Government became bolder and, starting with British Telecom, sold off most of the large utilities which had been in public ownership since the late 1940s. Many people took advantage of share offers, although many sold their shares immediately for a quick profit and therefore the proportion of shares held by individuals rather than institutions did not increase. The policy of privatisation, while anathema to many on the left, has become synonymous with Thatcherism and has ... been followed by Tony Blair's government. Wider share-ownership and council house sales became known as "popular capitalism" to its supporters (a term coined by John Redwood).
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Thatcher's government ... initiated dramatic changes in the National Health Service, established in 1948. Thatcher favored a significant increase in private medical care and insurance to complement the state-run system. Some of her plans had to be modified, but a major reorganization of the N.H.S. was commenced in 1989 after the publication of a White Paper at the beginning of the year. Market principles were introduced into the N.H.S. Family doctors were given control over their budgets and hospitals were encouraged to opt out of local health authority administration.
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When the Conservatives won the election, Thatcher became Secretary of State for Education and Science. In her first months in office, forced to administer a cut in the Education budget, she decided that abolishing free milk in schools would be less harmful than other measures. Nevertheless, this provoked a storm of public protest, earning her the nickname "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher", coined by The Sun. Her term was marked by many proposals for more local education authorities to adopt comprehensive secondary education, of which she approved. Thatcher ... defended the budget of the Open University from attempts to cut it.
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