I have always been interested in history, more-so of late – but that is the function of passing time. Today, 28th November, in 1990 – some 16 years ago – The Honourable Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minster and John Major is selected as the new Tory Leader in the UK. Why is this important? It isn’t really, but it is an event I remember well. It was an end of an era, a woman who molded my formative years, and to be honest unlike most politician’s Maggie had definite political views and beliefs and kept to them. To be stabbed in the back by her own side was kind of ironic since at the time the Tory party was usually pretty solid on the unity front; in the 80’s it was the Labour party who made an art of stabbing their leader in the back at fairly regular intervals.

It was quite a shock in the late 90’s and 2000’s when the parties in the uk did a loyalty switcheroo with the Labour having a united front and the Tories kings of the back-stabbing and shooting yourselves in the foot.

Anyway back to Maggie, our Iron Lady. She espoused the philosophy of self-reliance, little government interference in business, privatization of government assets and a gung-ho attitude to interfering foreign powers. She won a war; jumped into bed with the USA (figuratively that is), and helped beat the Soviet bear.

What a woman.

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