Margaret Thatcher dies of stroke aged 87

[T90TankGuy]

Baroness Thatcher, Britain's greatest post-war prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced.
Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning.
Lord Bell, her spokesman, said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.A further statement will be made later."
Known as the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher governed Britain from 1979 to 1990.
She will go down in history not only as Britain's first female prime minister, but as the woman who transformed Britain's economy in addition to being a formidable rival on the international stage.
Lady Thatcher was the only British prime minister to leave behind a set of ideas about the role of the state which other leaders and nations strove to copy and apply.


Margaret Thatcher dies of stroke aged 87 - Telegraph

RIP to the Iron lady .

 

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Margaret Thatcher dies of stroke aged 87
Baroness Thatcher, Britain's greatest post-war prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced.

By Gordon Rayner and Steven Swinford12:57PM BST 08 Apr 2013
Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning.
Lord Bell, her spokesman, said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.A further statement will be made later."
Known as the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher governed Britain from 1979 to 1990.
She will go down in history not only as Britain's first female prime minister, but as the woman who transformed Britain's economy in addition to being a formidable rival on the international stage.
Lady Thatcher was the only British prime minister to leave behind a set of ideas about the role of the state which other leaders and nations strove to copy and apply.

Many features of the modern globalised economy - monetarism, privatisation, deregulation, small government, lower taxes and free trade - were all promoted as a result of policies she employed to reverse Britain’s economic decline.
Above all, in America and in Eastern Europe she was regarded, alongside her friend Ronald Reagan, as one of the two great architects of the West’s victory in the Cold War.
Of modern British prime ministers, only Lady Thatcher’s girlhood hero, Winston Churchill, acquired a higher international reputation.
Lady Thatcher had become increasingly frail in recent years following a series of small strokes in 2001 and 2002.
Her daughter Carol also revealed in 2008 that she had been diagnosed with dementia, which had increasingly affected her memory for the last decade.
Ill-health had prevented her attending an 85th birthday party in Downing Street arranged by David Cameron in October 2010.
It also prevented her attending the Royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29, 2011 at Westminster Abbey.
Lady Thatcher published two volumes of memoirs. The first, The Downing Street Years (1993), covered her time as Prime Minister, while the second volume, The Path to Power (1995), concerned her early life. She also published a magisterial volume on international affairs, Statecraft (2002).
She is survived by her two children. Her husband Sir Denis died in 2003.

 

[Spring Onion]

RIP.

why rust?

 

[third eye]

There is a thread already on this.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/244600-margaret-thatcher-dies-stroke-aged-87-a.html

 

[PITA]

Come on guys, put two and two together, here.
@third eye

Sorry and thanks I didn't realize.

 

[third eye]

She was a part of the Toika of ' Iron Ladies ' of that era Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi & Margret Thatcher ...ladies whose firm decision making during times of national stress helped pulled their nations out of trouble.

A Fine lady.

 

[third eye]

Not sure if this sort of Tongue-in-the cheek humor is appreciated.

 

[PITA]

Not sure if this sort of Tongue-in-the cheek humor is appreciated.

Oh, lighten up, Francis. If the mods have a problem with it, I'll cheerfully withdrawal.

 

[sindhibrah]

Good riddance. She sold Hong Kong away in 1984 without any consideration of what we as a collective community wanted for our future.

 

[xuxu1457]

Great honor to her, a great woman, she has been a part of history

 

[Audio]

Oh, lighten up, Francis. If the mods have a problem with it, I'll cheerfully withdrawal.

Not an issue of lightening up at all. You're pathetic. And completely disrespectful towards someone who died and who was probably a bigger person then you would be able to accomplish in three lifetimes. Retard.

 

[Huda]

Rust

RIP...,

 

[walwal]

Not an issue of lightening up at all. You're pathetic. And completely disrespectful towards someone who died and who was probably a bigger person then you would be able to accomplish in three lifetimes. Retard.

Yeah, changes the whole context!

 

[kurup]

RIP

RIP.

why rust?

May be because she was the iron lady.

 

[PITA]

Not an issue of lightening up at all. You're pathetic. And completely disrespectful towards someone who died and who was probably a bigger person then you would be able to accomplish in three lifetimes. Retard.

LMAO, keep crying