| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:When in your life did you cheer the most? | |
| Posted by: | Robert Fish | |
| Date/Time: | 20/04/24 13:52:00 |
| We did as well, Vanessa (see my post at 19.21 yesterday). I disliked her intensely for her hard-faced policies and the livelihoods she destroyed. But there was a softer, more sympathetic side to her, even at the height of her reputation as the iron lady - witness her intervention when Clive Ponting was suspended without pay after he was found to be Tam Dalyell's source for the leak about the General Belgrano. I can also add that I met her after Dennis had died, but before the press had picked up on her Alzheimer's. She was utterly charming, but obviously lost. I never thought I would feel so sorry for Margaret Hilda Thatcher. But, whether you thought her right or wrong, pragmatic or heartless, she was at least a person of integrity. Could you say that of any of the current shower? |