Statue of Britain's Greatest ever Prime Minister to be unveiled in Grantham next year

A larger-than-life statue of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is courting controversy ahead of its planned installation in the former Conservative Party leader’s hometown of Grantham, reports Alex Marshall for the New York Times.

Why a Planned Statue of Britain's 'Iron Lady,' Margaret Thatcher, Is So Polarizing | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

 

Do we use hammer and chisels to destroy it the slow way, or do we use a very quick method - Cemtex ???

 

There was a good rapport between Britain's first female prime minister Margaret Thatcher ( 1979-1990) and India's first female prime minister Indira Gandhi ( 1966-1977, 1980-1984) .

What Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher shared

Thatcher’s biographer Hugo Young says the first meeting between them in the year 1976 in Indira Gandhi's home in Delhi, marked an important step in her journey towards belief in herself as a rising international stateswoman. This was prior to Thatcher becoming the British prime minister in 1979.

Thatcher called Gandhi the "distinguished leader" of a great country and prime minister of the "greatest democracy" during a luncheon speech while welcoming her in London on March 22, 1982, for the opening of the Festival of India, a cultural programme.

Both of them were also known by the sobriquet of 'The Iron Lady'.

 

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And she sure was the greatest Prime Minister who ever lived!


She came along and turned the country around after it was brought to it’s knees by the wasteful useless Labour Government.
I am very pleased about the statue, but I worry about the useless and brainless stupid moron idiots who might try and vandalise it.

 

I am guessing that this will be dividing opinion .

 

You can flippingwell say THAT again Mysteron!

I can safely say this though.
She had more Balls than most of the Clown Men Prime Ministers who followed her.
And this includes Boris Johnson!

It’s the so called Covid 19 scientists who have HIM by the Balls!

 

Over 2,300 people pledge to take part in egg-throwing contest at Margaret Thatcher statue unveiling

 

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In Domestic policy, Thatcher implemented sweeping reforms concerning the affairs of the economy, eventually including the privatisation of most nationalised industries,
= "MONEY FOR THE RICH"
AND - "In 1981, as unemployment soared (exceeding 2.5 million by the summer and heading towards 3 million before Christmas) and the Government's popularity plunged,"
In 1982, Thatcher promised that the NHS was "safe in our hands" and in 1987 that the NHS was "only safe with us".
- "CLEARLY WASN'T THE CASE"
By the late 1980s, however, she had alienated several senior members of her Cabinet with her opposition to greater economic integration into the European Economic Community.
AND - alienated many Conservative voters and parliamentarians with the imposition of a local poll tax.
= "INCREASED WIDENING OF THE RICH/POOR GAP"
As her support ebbed away, she was challenged for her leadership and persuaded by Cabinet to withdraw from the second round of voting – ending her eleven-year premiership.
= "DRINK'S ALL ROUND"

 

A better image for a statue would be one of these:=
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She is one of the worst prime ministers this country gas ever had and we should not have a statue of her anywhere.
Could not imagine us having a statue of Tony Blair (i don't want one of him either ). So why should have a statue of a woman that brought the country to its knees.

 

My only doubt in calling her our greatest prime minister may be doing an injustice to Winston Churchill.
You can forget the rest of them.

 

I don't have any doubts in calling her one of the worst prime ministers.

 

He wasn't any good either - an unconvicted war criminal.

 

Her son was a credit to the Nation, can we have a statue of him as well?

 

Only if you plant it in the middle of the Sahara where he got 'lost' !!!

 

I know nothing about this. curious

 

Following the use of Mustard and other gases as weapons during WW1, the League of Nations banned the use of chemical weapons. The uk was a signatory to that treaty. In 1923 Winston Churchill advocated the use of chemical weapons in Iraq against the so called 'rebels' who were fighting the British troops trying to impose a new Iraqi leader, more favourable to British interests.