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When Mrs. Thatcher was asked what her greatest legacy was, she answered “Tony Blair”.
A strange answer, it seems, until you think about it. She meant that she managed to shift the political landscape in Britain so profoundly, that when the Labour party eventually returned to power, none of the changes that she made were reversed.
That indeed was her greatest legacy.
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And before you call me an idiot, I have an IQ way over normal and an engineering degree!
Conrad’s right of course, but I had to chuckle over his comment about how he’s waiting to see how well the British people respond to the funeral, given that Mrs. Thatcher proved herself to be right and them to wrong. That comment sounded a bit autobiographical to me, even if unintentionally so: he of all people should know how well other people like to be proven wrong.
Regardless, I expect the funeral procession to be well attended and that there will a reflective softening, to some extent, of partisan feeling from now until then, as was evident in both Mr. Cameron’s and Mr. Milliband’s speeches yesterday, which the CBC carried live (shock!) for the most part. But I don’t think you can really compare Margaret Thatcher’s funeral to Winston Churchill’s: Churchill’s support during the war really did cross partisan and ideological lines in the face of an existential crisis brought home by an external enemy; the existential crisis facing Britain by 1979 was — and still is — not as widely accepted or understood, sadly from my perspective.
Margaret Thatcher was an admirable person, and I wish Stephen Harper were more like her. Some of her changes will endure, notably her defence of the Falklands. However, to be a little cynical, it might be said that she hauled the British out of their cess pool for sure, but that they got rid of her as soon as possible and then jumped right back in. Just like Ontario voters.
“Margaret Thatcher represented a breed of woman that is fast disappearing — the kind of woman who ‘does something’ as she’d put it. Today, these women are vanishingly rare. Instead, we have incessant demands that things be done FOR women.”
(from The Spearhead blog)
Thatcher was the epitome of a national “leader” – a daunting task for such a refined a lady but one she took to quite naturally without a blink at her detractors. She was a reformer at a time her nation’s power structure needed reforming to make it more beneficial to the middle class majority. She was hated by technocrats, statists, union oligarchs, kleptocrats, banksters, crony corporatists and euro socialists alike. You can tell the measure of a leader by their enemies and such a notorious group of undesirables as enemies is a testament to Thacher’s populist reflex.
Her reforms, highlighted by the sell off of crown corporations and public sector assets, was a bold move that put the national budget in black ink. In the longer run though it opened British corporate infrastructure to crony corporatism and sent a lot of productivity off shore. All in all Thatcher years were good years for middle class freedom and prosperity and that’s an achievement most post Thatcher leaders can’t claim.