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This must have been discussed and I just missed it, since even Annette has a thread.
Margaret Thatcher likely saved Britain, and was one of the strongest and most fearless politicians of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Few now remember that England had totally been surpassed economically by the Northern European continental powers, particularly Germany.
She saw through the faults of the Euro, and strongly opposed the UK joining, something that is still a political issue I believe, even though it should be clear by now that the single currency for very different countries was and is a horrible idea.
Many people in Britain and elsewhere were strongly opposed to her, perhaps even hated her. She was a Tory, but not of the "right sort". And certainly her policies caused much dislocation and human pain in industries that were shut down, especially coal mining and steel, and the families that had depended on these industries for generations. It is hard for us to remember today, but the UK had had big mining and steel industries for over 100 years.
UK stock market and bond market were devastated by the 70s, and I don't think there was much hope that it would get better. But today London is a financial center that dwarfs any on the continent, and rivals New York.
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Margaret Thatcher likely saved Britain, and was one of the strongest and most fearless politicians of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Few now remember that England had totally been surpassed economically by the Northern European continental powers, particularly Germany.
She saw through the faults of the Euro, and strongly opposed the UK joining, something that is still a political issue I believe, even though it should be clear by now that the single currency for very different countries was and is a horrible idea.
Many people in Britain and elsewhere were strongly opposed to her, perhaps even hated her. She was a Tory, but not of the "right sort". And certainly her policies caused much dislocation and human pain in industries that were shut down, especially coal mining and steel, and the families that had depended on these industries for generations. It is hard for us to remember today, but the UK had had big mining and steel industries for over 100 years.
UK stock market and bond market were devastated by the 70s, and I don't think there was much hope that it would get better. But today London is a financial center that dwarfs any on the continent, and rivals New York.
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