Musings on Maggie Thatcher

[ERinVA]

This interesting piece showed up in my google alerts today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/magaz ... ted=1&_r=1

[StevenKing]

Fascinating read. I think too many people forget just how popular she was, at least till she went too far even for most of her supporters with that idiotic stand on the poll tax( for USA members that was a set tax per adult to fund local government...more a fee really. Even I find that as regressive as you can get).Since she NEVER backed down on anything and the poll tax had about 2% support her own party rebelled so she stepped down, but her party STILL won the next election and when it lost after that it lost to New Labor which ejected the far leftist parts of itself to partly embrace some of her views...so for decades for the most part her views won out with the British public as a whole. The show makes it really clear that the miners were fighting more then just Thatcher but wider British society as well, it was class warfare and they lost it very very badly with not even close to majority support.
I really admire this article...fairly sure he's not a Thatcher supporter but it's written with the wider realities in mind so it's very fair.