>first female prime-minister of Great Britain
>first woman to lead a major British political party
>longest serving British prime minister of the last century
>literally defeats an army led by old, fascist angry men
>helps to end Cold War
>gets famous out of her own merit: irrelevant family and Literally Who husband
>starts career in a STEM field
>helped create the modern ice cream
Tell me again why don't Feminists consider her a Feminist icon?
because she's not a disabled, polyromantic, trans, PoC, with 7 different mental illnesses
because she is conservative racist and sexist and didn't beg for the state's help
All I know is that she was a famous cum catcher
Feminists care about their agenda, not women.
Because she hated communism.
Conservatives are truly the radical party.
First ever FEMALE PM was a Tory, albeit a terrible woman but still.
>Defeats a fascist
Wow I guess I love her now, defeat racism and all! Down with the nazis! XD
She privatised everything making us momentarily richer but fucking off large swathes of the country. She allowed commie blocks to spring up and her stupidity pushed us into a liberal age and current migrant mess.
Because she was fashy as fuck.
Probably because she's not a feminist or if she is, she's not their kind of feminist.
Because i live in the north of the UK and we still havent recovered after she shut down the whole industrial sector over night without making alternative jobs, the north east is still the unemployment blackspot of the uk even though before she did all of that we were the most productive part of the uk
Because she was forced out of office due to incompetence and photographed crying after it happened
>Thatcher the jungle canyon rope bridge snatcher
>a possible feminist icon
Choose one.
Yeah,this wasn't supposed to be about you
Sorry you sub spanish cunt
The British economy grew by 2.07 per cent annually in the 1970s and 3.09 per cent in the 1980s. It expanded by 2.77 per cent annually in the 1990s (when Thatcher’s legacy remained largely intact) and by 1.77 per cent in the 2000s, when it was wrecked by Gordon Brown. Manufacturing production rose 7.5 per cent during her time in office (demolishing the myth that she destroyed British industry), while services boomed.
If you're talking about mines, Labour's Harold Wilson closed more mines than Mrs Thatcher ever did and that is an irrefutable fact.
Labour in the 1960s = 406 mines closed, 315,000 job losses.
Tories in the 1980s = 146 mines closed, 173,000 job losses.
Going back further, in the early 1950s the National Coal Board (Labour's new nationalised coal industry) employed 700,000 people. By the time Margaret Thatcher took office in 1979 465,000 (or two thirds of the entire workforce) had already lost their jobs due to Labour mine closures.
Additionally, the northeast of England was *never* "the most productive part of the uk". It was the part of the UK that received the largest number of subsidies due to the region's lack of productivity.
Trying to argue yet you use a meme flag, go away panjeet
There is always a lot of shit going around when talking about Thatcher, lots of youngsters and fanatic socialists hate her because she was tough on these idiots trying to ruin the country. She cleaned up the country. Probably the best British PM in modern times.
This better, you ignorant piece of shit? Show me one place where I'm wrong. Go on. I'll wait. Want me to tell you about how Scargill's illegal strikes were the actual reason for the mine closure?
I'm on holiday so ignore the flag, but why is she hated in the UK? Especially Scotland?
Nope it was the fat cats in london who shut it down nothing we done
>Scots can't take a piss without a check from the government
>Thatcher didn't want to give them a check to piss
She isn't hated in the UK. She's hated by the media and the left. Thatcher won 43.9 per cent of the vote in 1979, 42.4 per cent in 1983 and 42.2 per cent in 1987 – landslide results that contemporary politicians can only dream of.
Even in Scotland, she took 31.4% of the vote when she was elected in 1979, a 6.7% increase on the Conservative vote in 1974.
It was not Thatcher who caused the closure of the coal mining industry, it was Arthur Scargill. Thatcher wanted to close down 12 loss-making mines, so Scargill called an illegal strike and did not even ballot NUM members. Over the year of the strike, industrial and domestic consumers of coal converted to other fuels, because coal was now in short supply. When the strike ended more mines had to close because the demand for coal had fallen drastically. The striking miners, Scargil and the NUM were to blame for killing off their industry. Blaming Thatcher was left-wing propaganda born of the Left's inability to admit its mistakes and failings.
When a ballot was finally held, more than 70% of NUM members opposed a strike. Scargill responded by using brute force against miners who did not agree with him and issuing threats against their families, including murdering on one occasion a taxi driver who carried anti-Scargill miners to work and, on another, having a mob of 15 union thugs break into the home of a miner who had spoken out against violence and beat him almost to death.
Only leftist women can be feminist icons.
The exceptions are historical figures not still in living memory and non-white foreigners, since women don't know enough about them to find their views or action problematic.
Not going to lie i knew this i just wanted a good shit post, but i didnt know about scargills sneaky shit so thanks for teaching me
She also blew up Argies which, in my mind, is a pretty awesome thing.
Tranny monster. Hopefully burning in Hell forever.
Let me guess. You're an Argie.
>Ruined the UK with drastic economic "reforms" still felt today.
>Moved the UK closer to their US "allies" (e.g. masters)
A true icon.
Fellow northerner here, I've learned to forgive Thatcher but every thing that they tell you about her how she closed down the mines or was a milk snatcher all happened under Labour.
all I know is that your nation will become two very soon.
>implying we will let competition in the Making Spanish Butthurt Department
Because she hated feminists
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Northern commies brought it on themselves by constantly striking in the 70s over the smallest of matters. You deserved it. Unions crippled Britain until the late 80s.
Tbh British coal mines were headed for automation anyway. The jobs would have dissapeated in the 90s no matter what.
She made sensible but tough and therefore brave long term decisions that benefited the country and turned it from decline to growth. She got where she was on determination and hard work. She stood up for this country against aggressors. She acted selflessly, doing what needed to be done and not caring about the impact it had on her reputation. She didn't give in to short term emotion driven policies. She believed in sovereignty, free speech, democracy, and affordable public spending.
Point out which of these statements applies to feminists or socialists for that matter