In the top picture, she looks like Brian Clough in a wig.
It’s the expression that does it. Meryl Streep, a brilliant actress, has pinpointed Margaret Thatcher’s “mother knows best” look. The one she used with interviewers, ministers, royalty, Reagan.
The one that reduced almost every man she met into a pant-moistening little boy, thrilled and scared and oops-I-need-the-toilet all at once.
She was mummy, nanny and matron all rolled into one exciting package: exciting, that is, if you had once been a sad little 12-year- old, sent away to an all-male boarding school.
Ripped from the bosom of their real mother as children, as adults such public schoolboys were attracted to the bust substitute – the bustitute – of Margaret Thatcher.
They knew she might take their eye out with her pointy bra, mind, but then she was the Iron Lady.
Just as some women can’t resist bad boys, some men can’t resist bully-birds. Maggie was a quintessential bully-bird, a force of nature without sympathy for anyone weaker, or less advantaged, or not as sure of themselves.
A woman who would grab a bull by the horns, make it cry and then force it to blow its nose properly into a hanky.
Weak little Tory boys, married to quiet mice from the Shires, found her masculine femininity utterly irresistible.
Thatcher reduced incorrigible flirts like Alan Clark to jelly, made Willy Whitelaw quake in his soft shoes. No doubt she made a young David Cameron want to cry, in a funny way that he couldn’t tell his mum about.
Even Jon Snow, that most formidable of interviewers, confessed last week he could “never quite forget that she was a woman”.
He told how she would tap him imperiously on the knee as she informed him what a stupid question he had asked. “She was very early into Lycra tights,” he remembered. “They screamed as she crossed and uncrossed her legs.”
They were right to.
In the top picture, she looks like Brian Clough in a wig.
You're going to live forever then!......Only the good die young.
Doesn't matter what you think of her, it's never nice to see someone deteriorating that badly.
I could never actually wish someone dead.
Did you not meet Bill Archer?
Doesn't matter what you think of her, it's never nice to see someone deteriorating that badly.
Doesn't matter what you think of her, it's never nice to see someone deteriorating that badly.
ExactlyOld now she may be, but she probably still has more intelligence today that the bulk if not all of the members of the Government's cabinet. A remarkable lady in my view.
She destroyed this country and I for one would happily spit on her grave when she finally carcs it. I tell you one indisputable thing, if the Unions still had power yo uwouldn't have the divide of earnings that exists now. There is no way the unions would have allowed a cleaner in a company to be on 12,000 while a CEO is on Milliions.
Tell me what you think would have happened had labour won the election in the winter of discontent and the unions were allowed to continue unfettered ?