Posted on 04/07/2008 11:10:33 AM PDT by mdittmar
A new opinion poll indicates the British people are still in awe of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 18 years after she left office.
A YouGov survey conducted for the Daily Telegraph found that when people were asked who they would pick to lead the country at the height of his or her powers, Baroness Thatcher surpassed Tony Blair, the newspaper reported Monday.
Trailing behind both Thatcher and Blair in the poll was Conservative leader David Cameron followed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Almost two thirds of Tory voters said they would prefer Lady Thatcher to Brown.
Thatcher, 82, is also considered to be Britain's greatest post-war prime minister, ahead of even Winston Churchill during his second term in office, the newspaper said.
One third of those questioned for the survey said none of the current crop of conservatives could fill her shoes.
Great post and fabulous picture. I am reminded daily of the duo because I named my new puppies Reagan and Maggie.
They can have Hillary.
Oh, wait, they said a ‘leader like Ms. Thatcher’.
nevermind.
We too are still in awe of her.
Our country would do well with a leader like Iron Maggie too.
It's amazing her image has help up. The BBC never passes up an opportunity to trash Thatcher these days.
I’d trade any of the upcoming “chosen” for her, too.
Sigh, wouldn’t we all.
Personally, as an American, I'd love a leader like Thatcher too.
Britain: 3% Muslim
America: 3% Muslim
If this is true, why do they elect politicians with opposite values and beliefs of Thatcher?
She was the “Iron Lady” with timeless style. Old Hitlery could take a lesson from her.
By the way things are going in the UK, the day will come when the Brits will pray for someone like Thatcher. But by then, it will probably be too late. The moral fiber of the government will be so weaken that it would be nearly impossible to return it to the days of high ethics and morals. And that is if Sharia law hasn’t already replaced English Law.
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Great post and picture.
How is her health? I read somewhere she isn’t doing so well. She is one heck of a great lady.
MUHAHAHA
Ah well my friend, there are more of us than you.
That old 3% canard again? Forlorn Hope? Anglo Saxon negative population growth , thats not going to leave a lot of you to “westernize” the natives is it?A lot of our muslims our born to it jail. Not openly rejoiced upon arrival from ahem’”ASIA”.
Open borders will be our demise, not so much as speech thought born and polished to gleaming edifice out of London.We can still get away with a lot of speech , we don’t have to mumble in the back corners of olde pubs. Nor do have to contend with yet, the so called”leaders “ of our top churches disavowing the the Divinity of Christ or making way for Sharia law.
And, we still have our guns, for now,..you have . uh...Eurabia?
Back then they were calling her Ronald Reagan's poodle.
Regards
Gordon Brown’s problem is that he is at “the height of his or her powers.” As they used to say in California, “if it’s Brown, flush it.”
Personally, as an American, I'd love a leader like Enoch Powell.
My opinion of her took a serious hit when I learned that she began the whole man-made global warming hoax.
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