Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013

“Margaret Thatcher, the most dominant British prime minister since Winston Churchill in 1940 and a global champion of the late 20th century free market economic revival, has died.” There’s plenty of reaction here, including this, (which refers to this):

Tramp the dirt down.

— George Galloway (@georgegalloway) April 8, 2013

and this:

Margaret Thatcher has died. Whatever people thought of her the changes she made were never reversed. Very sad day. Sympathy to her family

— Alun Cairns (@AlunCairns) April 8, 2013

which is pretty much right about the changes.

And, of course, there will always be this:

I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand ‘I have a problem, it is the government’s job to cope with it!’ or ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’; ‘I am homeless, the government must house me!’ and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families, and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations.

It’s a legacy that goes on and on.