Maragret Thatcher

I WOULD say that history will remember Margaret Thatcher as one of Britain´s greatest Prime Ministers whose long list of successes was far greater than her failures. She put Britain back on the map and for a few days in 1982 when Britain liberated the Falklands it was Great Britain again. She said as much when she emerged from Downing Street when it was announced that the white flag was flying over Port Stanley. What I admired about Margaret Thatcher was that she believed in what she was doing. As Lord Archer says on our front page today, she always put her country first. She had a mission to rescue Britain and she was successful. The coal miners had to be defeated in 1983 because they were threatening to bring back the dark days of the 1970s. Thatcher had many finest hours; securing the British rebate from the European Union, bringing to an end the Cold war, and stopping the British rot. Let us remember that when she came to power in 1979, Britainwas known as the “sick man of Europe.” Her medicine was tough and millions of people paid the price with their jobs but it had to be done. Britain recovered almost to full health and her legacy still exists today. One of the saddest parts of her 11 years in office was how she was ejected from Downing Street; not by the miners, the Argentinians or the poll tax rioters but by her own party. She was stabbed in the back. But thankfully the work had been done but the Tories should feel shamed.