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~~~~~~~~~~ <strong>NYT</strong>-1208: OP-ED Bring the Iron Lady Back ... By RICHARD VINEN Margaret Thatcher was tough, decisive and widely d isliked. At a moment of crisis, Britain needs her type of adversarial politics, not consensus. ===== notyet London MARGARET THATCHER has long been reviled by the Bri tish left, so much so that the singer Elvis Costel lo once fantasized about stomping on her grave in his 1989 song “Tramp the Dirt Down.” But Mrs. That cher achieved more than any other British peacetim e prime minister of the 20th century. It is rumore d that, when she dies, she will receive a state fu neral — an honor rarely accorded to anyone except monarchs. There are also plans for a public celebr ation. Her life is the inspiration for a new movie that o pens later this month, starring Meryl Streep as “T he Iron Lady.” It chronicles Mrs. Thatcher’s divis ive policies as prime minister as she led Britain through the economic doldrums of the 1980s. It was a time when the country faced financial ruin and politicians were compelled to make hard choices. Mrs. Thatcher was a tough, adversarial leader. She was never liked, even by those who supported her policies, and she was hated by those who opposed h er. Yet her political style may be just what Britain n eeds right now. The country is in the midst of an economic crisis that will force the government to make difficult, unpopular decisions. And that is w hat Mrs. Thatcher did so well. Facing long-term ec onomic decline and the brooding menace of the Sovi et Union, she broke the trade unions, sold off nat ionalized industries and helped imbue British capi
talists with a confidence that they had not felt s ince the death of Queen Victoria. She was at her best when the odds seemed against h er or when she had clear enemies. In 1982, she sen t an armada to fight the Argentines in the Falklan d Islands. And in 1984-85, she held out against a strike by the National Union of Mineworkers, which had been powerful enough to bring down a governme nt 10 years before. Although Mrs. Thatcher has become a respected symb ol of statesmanship outside Britain, she remains a reminder of social division within it. In 2008, t he future foreign secretary, William Hague, sought to reassure American officials that he and David Cameron, soon-to-be prime minister, were “Thatcher ’s children.” When his comment leaked, the Labour opposition seized upon it, keen to circulate the q uote in the hopes that it would stir up old anti-T hatcher feelings. And despite being in power today , Conservative leaders still worry that they are a ssociated with the bitterness of the Thatcher year s. They speak of changing their image as “the nast y party” and the need to “detoxify the brand.” One reason British politicians feel uncomfortable with Thatcherism is that Britain has been relative ly prosperous in the last two decades, at least in part because of things the Thatcher government di d: tax cuts, financial-sector deregulation and wea ker unions all made Britain a more attractive plac e to do business. A new generation of politicians who grew up in an age of prosperity has ceased to think of politics in terms of hard choices and scarce resources; Mr. Cameron belongs to that generation. He was just 1 2 years old when Mrs. Thatcher came to power in 19 79 and he became leader of the Conservative Party in 2005, when the current economic storms seemed a lmost unimaginable. Even when Mr. Cameron became p
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