After electoral defeat, she started a new career. Lobbyist for tobacco companies.
They even paid her birthday party:
Tobacco giant pays for $1m Thatcher bash
Philip Morris’s chief executive, Geoffrey Bible, will chair the dinner. A spokesman for the company said: “Philip Morris is writing the Thatcher Foundation a cheque to cover the cost of the party”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tobacco-giant-pays-for-1m-thatcher-bash-1576517.html
Thatcher?! I hardly knew her!
my biggest question around her is how many margarets did she actually end up thatching?
Derek Riggs and Iron Maiden had the right idea.
Yeah, but later they let her get revenge.
Thanks but I already knew she was a piece of shit.
Following in the footsteps of her idol Milton Friedman.
But after that she died. Not a total wash, but it was the best thing she ever did.
Ding, dong…
Well she and Kissinger had a competition going…
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She was always a cunt
Why are you posting this in YSK? How does this information improve anyone’s life in any way?
There is literally no-one here who doesn’t already think Thatcher was a piece of shit.
I have no idea who Thatcher is nor do i care, so i technically didnt know and will proceed to not know after i inevitably forget that name by the next post
Now I know she was an even bigger piece of shit than I thought.
Yeah, okay. But anger doesn’t make my life better. If I’m browsing this community I expect tips that can potentially improve the quality of my life, not just finding out about more mud on a dead 20th century dirt bag politician to be angry about.
It’s not anger, I know people who praise Thatcher and it is unpleasant. Having one more argument against her in the conversations is a positive improvement on my life.
Works both ways though. It was an interesting post and overreacting discourages others from posting when it is difficult to find a place where something fits.
We really need people that post cool or unique stuff far more than we need any unnecessary pedantism. Just because you imagine some specific category of a community does not make that universal by any stretch. This OP is trying to participate in posting with over twice the posts that you have made on this account. I’m an order of magnitude more than them in that regard. Posting is something to value highly from anyone here, narcissistic whining – not so much. I would post a lot more of people were more positive as would many others, remember that. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution, but you are not an exception.
You both make excellent points. I’m on the fence.
Let me put it this way. Lemmy infamously only has four topics that people post about:
- Politics
- Linux
- Star Trek
- Porn
Any community that isn’t about topics 2 to 4 will eventually become one about topic 1.
She protected politicians running a pedophile ring:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-thatchers-government-covered-up-a-vip-pedophile-ring/
https://news.sky.com/story/thatcher-turned-blind-eye-to-paedophile-mps-10368694
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/02/thatcher-peter-hayman-named-paedophile-archives
I don’t follow much politics, and I dont follow political history either. I felt that this was a quality post and I appreciated it.
You’d do yourself a favor by not thinking and speaking for all of us.
I’m not speaking for anyone but myself. I view this post as an example of a very persistent problem with Lemmy as a platform. Namely, that it seems only have four topics that people ever post about:
- Politics
- Linux
- Star Trek
- Porn
There’s nothing inherently wrong with posting about these topics but it really seems like whenever there exists a community isn’t about topics 2-4, people will make it about topic 1.
YSK Sidebar, rule 1:
This is a community to share tips and tricks that will help improve your life
Weird that this is the second post in a row I’ve seen just now like this. It’d be one thing if the comm wasn’t literally in the title as per the rules.
I’m more disappointed in the upvoters than the mods.
Everyone’s life us made better by actively trashing Thatcher. That’s just a fact.
I for one knew it and yet I enjoy, in a very tragic way, discovering that she was, actually, even worst than I thought.
I did not know but its not surprising, perfect fit for a misanthrope like her.
Becoming a lobbyist doesn’t sound like leaving politics.
Correct, it is the final stage of politics where the criminal gets paid for the crimes
Why should I know this?
Because she is still respected/admired by some folks in Britain and the US.
They think it’s just some young lefties who are throwing a taper tantrum about unions. No. This woman was a vile abomination. People need to be factually aware of everything wrong she did, in order to respond to her supporters.
I dont think that those that you’re trying to inform will care. She destroyed communities. Specifically Essex, Newcastle, Yorkshire, Liverpool, and most of Wales and Scotland…but there are still people in those places that are fans of her.
You forgot the Midlands in that list.
