She was flawed but she wasn’t a monster. Britain under the Callaghan administration was rapidly becoming ungovernable. I remember picket lines preventing ambulances getting emergency patients to hospitals. We couldn’t bury our dead. Read up on the Winter of Discontent. Our economy was trashed – we had to take out a loan from the IMF. The unions needed their influence trimmed, and she was the one elected to do it
Yeah, don’t erect statues to monsters.
She was flawed but she wasn’t a monster. Britain under the Callaghan administration was rapidly becoming ungovernable. I remember picket lines preventing ambulances getting emergency patients to hospitals. We couldn’t bury our dead. Read up on the Winter of Discontent. Our economy was trashed – we had to take out a loan from the IMF. The unions needed their influence trimmed, and she was the one elected to do it