![]() ![]() She defied conventional wisdom about the “glass ceiling” women in British politics faced. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom. ![]() Marxists get up early in the morning to further their cause. Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty from her handbag, slammed it down on the table and declared, “This is what we believe!” On another occasion, she observed that She was more interested in doing what she thought was right than what was politically palatable, as evidenced in this well-known remark: “To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.”Īt a policy meeting once, she famously pulled out a copy of F. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.Ī woman of convictions, she thought the unprincipled in government deserved to take a fall because they were too afraid to take a stand. I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society-from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. She reminded the nation of these objectives during her second of three terms when she declared, She set about, in her words, to “ roll back the frontiers of the state.” She wanted to reinvigorate the country by restoring a culture of entrepreneurship and respect for private property. For the most part, Thatcher didn’t propose to fix big problems through small tweaks as other cowardly or unprincipled politicians were suggesting. Britain struggled on all fronts as the sick man of Europe. In 1979, the Iron Lady assumed the premiership of a country riven with labor strife, racked by stagflation and run down by decades of nanny government. What an amazing tenure it was! A "Do-It-Yourself" Vision This autumn will mark 30 years since Margaret Thatcher departed 10 Downing Street as the first woman and longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th Century. ![]()
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