Margaret Thatcher

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"How the Falklands experience transformed Thatcher •  It gave her new, transcendent self-confidence. The Falklands crisis was the time of her life, said Robert Armstrong, when ‘she lived most intensely’.37 She was sure that only she could have done it. It was the defining moment, the greatest triumph of her whole career. •  She thought it proved that Britain could regain its greatness. After her Falklands triumph, she went back to Downing Street, mingling with the people, young and old, singing Rule Britannia. ‘It was their triumph,’ she said. ‘We have ceased to be a nation in retreat.’38 •  As Charles Moore said, her mindset was ‘both conservative and revolutionary. She saw herself as restoring an inherent British greatness … At the same time, she saw herself as bringing about enormous change.’39 •  She went from being on probation with her Tory colleagues to complete dominance over them.40 •  The full Thatcherite agenda to save Britain from socialism was now able to emerge. •  Finally, the Falklands experience made Thatcher dangerously over-confident, intransigent and unwilling to listen to close colleagues. Her success in war made her increasingly intolerant, autocratic and unable to compromise."

"So the family remained in Stellenbosch and in 1963 the Rembrandt Group bought Fleur du Cap estate as a guesthouse. Over the years the visitors’ book of Rupert’s guests who were hosted there came to resemble an international who’s who: Dutch, British and Basotho royalty; heads of government like Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair; cabinet ministers like Caspar Weinberger and Henry Kissinger; business people like David Rockefeller and Edmund de Rothschild; politicians like Sen. Edward Kennedy, and"

"The combination of Roger Douglas and the Treasury at that moment was brilliant. He wouldn’t have been purist if left to his own devices, and they wouldn’t have had much influence on their own. Then he reached out to serious businessmen to help sort out the problems like the state-owned enterprises; the sorts of roles that had traditionally been given to party hacks. It was a very exciting time for people interested in New Zealand and Roger executed many far-reaching and important reforms. The man deserves a bloody great statue; aside from Ruth Richardson, no other figure in recent New Zealand politics comes within a bull’s roar of him. Margaret Thatcher dragged England out of its socialist impasse and is now voted the most important British leader since the war. It is very slack that Roger and Ruth are not given the same regard in New Zealand."

"Property ownership, he argued, was one of mankind’s most fundamental and important satisfactions, along with fundamental instincts such as love of family. People care about things they own. The state, by contrast, hardly knew what it owned. Back in 1986 Gibbs had argued that the best thing that could be done would be to give the public shares in Forest Corporation, Electricorp and the other state-owned enterprises. This would restore private motivations to these activities and keep the public engaged. He now thinks giving all citizens the right to buy at a discounted price, as Margaret Thatcher had done in the United Kingdom, would be better, since people value what they pay for."