We need someone with Thatcher’s resolve

WHEN will people stop blaming Margaret Thatcher for all the ills of the world?

We need someone with Thatcher’s resolve

Those rioting thugs in England are the children of Blair and New Labour, most grew up, or were born, during the Blair years, and are the result of the decline in parental control, the lack of discipline and educational standards in the schools and the complete absence of moral parameters in the society that spawns them.

Thatcher is now regarded as having been one of the best post-war leaders of Britain. She cured the “sick man of Europe” and gave Britain back her pride. She took on the powerful trade unions that were holding the country to ransom and won; and side by side with Ronald Reagan, presided over the dismantling of the Iron Curtain in Europe and the ending of the Cold War.

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