Favourite Margaret Thatcher moments

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You may have noticed that former prime minister Margaret Thatcher has died.

Please share your favourite video / text / other (satire or real) :)

I can imagine a lot of the members here are too young to remember her as prime minister. Well, I was only a child myself at the time. Despair not! All you need to know about her is beautifully visualised in the below video!

 
This one comes from when Thatcher had to act swiftly to prevent an Argentian warship robbing her of some fun by retreating to even further outside of the Falklands exclusion zone than it had already been.


Some people say Thatcher did good things too.

I have no probem with the idea that thouroughly evil people do good things as well as bad.

Hitler, for instance, gave the world the VW Beetle and gave Germany trains that ran on time.
 
A friend of mine had this awesome board game where you could play one of Thatcher, Ayatollah Khomeini, Reagen, and probably whoever was in charge in the USSR and China at the time, etc, and the aim was to blow up your opponents with nuclear bombs. Unfortunately I can't seem to remember what the game was called.
 
Indian Summer said:
A friend of mine had this awesome board game where you could play one of Thatcher, Ayatollah Khomeini, Reagen, and probably whoever was in charge in the USSR and China at the time, etc, and the aim was to blow up your opponents with nuclear bombs. Unfortunately I can't seem to remember what the game was called.
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The government probably wiped it from your mind because the game gave away too many of their classified military strategies.
 
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Snowcone said:
The government probably wiped it from your mind because the game gave away too many of their classified military strategies.
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Well, their efforts were to no avail! It was in fact a computer game, not a board game. Here we go:
Each player - one human, four computer-controlled - is represented by a caricature of a national leader (the MS-DOS version allowed more than one human player). If there is a computer-controlled winner at the end of the game, that leader is depicted jumping for joy in the middle of a blasted wasteland, crowing "I won! I won!". If the player wins only the high score board is shown. Once a player (computer or human) loses, all of their stockpiled weapons are automatically launched. It's possible for a game to have no winner because of this. If this happens, a cut scene of the earth shattering and exploding is shown, and the high score table appears (though without any new entries).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(video_game)
 
Yes, I guess my favourite Thatcher moment would also be from “Spitting Image”.
I remember one sketch with Ronald Reagan and his faithful dog Nancy…
 
Actually, I think my favourite Thatcher moment would be her speech to the UN General Assembly on global climate change.

BBC News - Margaret Thatcher: How PM legitimised green concerns

Thatcher was actually a chemistry scientist (working with crystallography) before she became a politician, so she would presumably have a better understanding of the issues than most other politicians at the time.
 
My favourite Thatcher moment was Black Wednesday.

When I left for work that morning I had a house with about £15k equity and a mortgage of about £550 per month.

By teatime that same day my equity was minus £10k and my monthly mortgage just shy of nine hundred pounds.

I got my revenge on the system by telling the bailiffs that I'd make them a cup of tea when they arrived but if they wanted biscuits they'd have to bring their own.
 
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