Christopher Hitchens on Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Economics (1987)
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. More Hitchens: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=mg03-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=13e115274bd052f63f1655d600c14933&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=hitchens She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. She implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism. Originally a research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and became the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general election. Upon moving into 10 Downing Street, Thatcher introduced a series of political and economic initiatives intended to reverse high unemployment and Britain's struggles in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and an ongoing recession. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation (particularly of the financial sector), flexible labour markets, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Thatcher's popularity during her first years in office waned amid recession and high unemployment, until the 1982 Falklands War brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her re-election in 1983. Thatcher was re-elected for a third term in 1987. During this period her support for a Community Charge (popularly referred to as "poll tax") was widely unpopular and her views on the European Community were not shared by others in her Cabinet. She resigned as Prime Minister and party leader in November 1990, after Michael Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership. After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords. She withdrew from public speaking due to ill health in 2002 following a stroke, and in 2013, she died of another stroke in London at the age of 87. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 -- June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981--1989). Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California (1967--1975), and a radio, film and television actor. Born in Tampico, Illinois, and raised in Dixon, Reagan was educated at Eureka College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. After graduating, Reagan moved first to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then, in 1937, to Los Angeles where he began a career as an actor, first in films and later television. Some of his most notable films include Knute Rockne, All American (1940), Kings Row (1942), and Bedtime for Bonzo (1951). Reagan served as President of the Screen Actors Guild and later as a spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, his positions began shifting rightward in the 1950s, and he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 and in 1976, but won both the nomination and general election in 1980, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated reducing tax rates to spur economic growth, controlling the money supply to reduce inflation, deregulation of the economy, and reducing government spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, and ordered an invasion of Grenada. He was re-elected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming that it was "Morning in America". His second term was primarily marked by foreign matters, such as the ending of the Cold War, the 1986 bombing of Libya, and the revelation of the Iran-Contra affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire", he supported anti-communist movements worldwide and spent his first term forgoing the strategy of détente by ordering a massive military buildup in an arms race with the USSR. Reagan negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, culminating in the INF Treaty and the decrease of both countries' nuclear arsenals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan
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Thanks Thatcher and Reagan! #GoTrump!
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Poisonous whore who is burning in hell with Reagan
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Wow very nice came in pantz
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Thank you Terence, l am so passionàte about people getting treated right in life, We are still being unfairly by this tory government in now. The awful bedroom tax . When is it going to change. People also are miss-lead about people coming into the country. We have to stop this blame culture. This is from the media, the tories and the media reporting on behalf of the tories. They work hand in glove with each other.
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What l am not an American you have read it wrong. I detested thatcher and the whole era l too remember what that evil bitch did. I was writing to an american its not me l am from Hull in east yorkshire.. I am a stauch labour supporter.
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Thatcher was the very worst prime minister confirmed by history and the post thatcher state of the United Kingdom!
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has anyone actually read the sub-titles hahahahahahahahaha
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Thatcher and Reagan,the the two "Leaders" who allowed the bankers to do the damage by allowing the public's bank deposits to be used to gamble with....the start of the mess we are now in.
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In reply to the American man, who has replied to me. Mrs Thatcher caused much heartache, whilst in power. Many women just voted her in at the time, some women quoted that they were voting her in for a change!!!! I cannot see why many working class people would vote a tory in, JUST FOR A CHANGE!!!! she ruined this country, introducing schemes to put many people on, with no chance of a job at the end. What that does is, it massages the figures to look like unemployment is down. Many people in the eighties, went on course after course. With no job in sight. Because l knew many in my town. Going back to the miners, many killed themselves under the Thatcher regime. She deserved no credit for anything she did. Then there was the very famous poll tax, one house paid two hundred and eighty pounds say, then the house next door paid three hundred and sixty. She caused the ordinary man and women on the street havoc. It was a very unfair tax. I felt so angry with this women l went on a march against the very unfair Poll Tax. This women in my opinion was inhuman. I will nevet forget the misery she caused to families. Funny l have never heard of any one killing themselves under a Labour government. Oh of course, labour are for the working man and women, so that means that they care mmm of course!!!
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YOU FUCKING BRITISH BITCH THATCHER !!!
GIVE THE MALVINAS BACK TO THE ARGENTINES.. -
Up socialism a system fair to all, not just just for a chosen few. We are the gogs in society making the rich richer. Money is distributed unfairly. Thank God for the wonderful Jeremy Corbin. Keep the red flag flying high.
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Although I don't agree with everything she did, Margaret Thatcher brought an end to the state socialism which had brought the UK economy to its knees. Socialism is one of the worst ideologies ever to exist. Social democracy is the way forward in my opinion
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And here we are in 2016 and both countries have not recovered yet.
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To xero, course she was a dictator, she was evil, what she did during the falklands war, was unforgivable, she caused that war. Men blown up so many men and women suffered facial disfigurments. She should have been put up against a wall and shot. The miners, men put out of work. There was no need to close the mines. Men killed themselves during this awful time. Those writing these comments must be on the side of thatcher and must be Tories. All the tories do is cause pain and grief to working family's, using austerity measures that are much too harsh. There are never opportunities for proper work under tories, yes there are schemes that look like your in a job, but then it looks like unemployment is down thus massaging the figuers to show people are in work. long live Socialism.
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The fat bloke with the beard thing sounds like an anally retentive robot, looks down and talks to the desk 99% of the time.
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hitchens ,,funny clever guy,,haha
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miss you
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i cant stand hecklers, worst kind of people. I'm not sorry Thatcher is gone, she got the ball rolling with empowering greed and self interest....there were things that needed to change and there things she did that she was right to do, but she went too far and even her own party thought so in the end. But she was elected three times, she wasn't a dictator....callous or not her actions had a mandate from the British people and these self-important idiots shouting her down i hope are still around to feel thoroughly embarassed by their actions.
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repulsive old bat. and thatcher. good riddance to them both