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Old 04-06-2008, 10:01 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Resident Thatcherite reporting for duty...
Thatcher had many very good Conservative ideas like ending immigration, leaving the EU (now), bringing back corporal and capital punishment, putting homosexuality firmly back behind closed doors (or even keeping it illegal according to her book the path to power).
But this was undermined by total obedience to Libertarian market theory which sacrificed profit making British Nationalised Industries on the Altar of dogma and let slip into foreign hands some of the most famous British companies of all time.
Not to mention her totally subservient and quite fearful attitude to the United States.
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