Do You Think

[Gran67]

If Margaret Thatcher never was the PM, would Britain be better off?

[factor-fiction]

Probably not, and at the time people kept re-electing her so must have thought she was the best option available, but of course we'll never know.
You could ask the same about any Prime Minister I can remember- Wilson, Heath, Wilson again, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron. It's hard to say any of the others were any better

[Old_Geezer]

'What if' scenarios eh ?

I suspect decades later whatever any politician has done will have mainly been overtaken by more recent decisions. They are more of a problem for the public at the time. That said not all things get corrected, for example we have still sold loads of public services that ended up owned by foreign companies, which I don't see as a good thing. And we still have that lowest bid mentality.

[tiggerblue10]

No.

[ummmm]

No.

[tonyav]

Most definitely not.

[chakka35]

For a start we'd be worse off to the tune of £75,000,000,000, which is what we have saved through her insistence on our EU rebate.

[DangerUXD]

The Berlin wall would still be up and we'd be a Soviet bloc enclave. The EU would be skint, well more skint, and Arthur scargill would be Putin's puppet govenor of Britanski. However in the eyes of the left we would be better off because they'd have nationalise the bread queue. Mrs T would have been a back bencher or retired and the ironic thing is the whole lot would still be her fault!

[youngmafbog]

What, by bein totally broken by labour and the Unions? We were labeled the sick man of Europe before she got there. Had you forgotten by any chance?

Do you really think someone else would not have had to do it, just not quite so decisively so bankrupting the country in the process.

She was right preson at the time, that is why she was voted in. I dont think she would be right now though, different time, and we are in a different place.

[jake-the-peg]

Wow

Margaret Thatcher brought down the Berlin Wall

And I thought it was David Hasselhoff!

How did she do that then? - was it one of her speeches?

How come she didn't sort out Northern Ireland then? Was she too tired after single handedly defeating communism?

[mushroom25]

she didn't sort northern ireland. but she was prime minister when the anglo-irish agreement was signed and whilst it was roundly rejected by most parties in Northern Ireland, it did foster closer working between the UK and Eire, and it's possible that the good friday agreement may not have come about without the earlier agreement.

[Petergabriel]

Looking at the cyclical economics of Britain and the rest of Europe - it was time for Britain to have a natural economic resurgence as the natural economic rhythm had been balanced to re-dress the ravages of Two World Wars and their ensuing social problems. The question is whether a man would have had enough single-mindedness as a woman remains to be seen - there were no obvious candidates amongst the men, Britain needed a leader and there were none amongst the men, nor are there still. Viewed in economic terms it could be seen as long ago as 2000 that there was going to be a very sharp economic downturn within the next 5-8 years in the western world let alone Britain and no politician would have made any difference. The selling of the gold reserves, by Gordon Brown, to pay for a disastrous economic policy, was one of the main factors that served to quicken the process. Nature has always a way of fighting back and any historian,(by historian I mean an individual who is a statistician, economist, social observer and commentator for a period in time) should be able to give quite an accurate forecast of trends past and to come.

[lady-janine]

definitely not. she believed in this country and did far more for us than any pm since. please remember that wilson closed more mines than she did and it was the greed and egoism of scargill and the rest of the trade union movement that caused so much misery in this country.

her belief in britain saved us a lot of money and continues to do so.