It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.
My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
One of the most important things that a Thatcher government did was change the mood of the nation to give it back its confidence.
Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.
We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.