Margaret Thatcher- the "daughter of the grocery store", as she had called her for her humble ancestry or "Iron Lady", a nickname that the Soviets had successfully accounted for for her incompatible policy and the style of her leadership- was the first female prime minister.
She won a prominent position in the Delt of History with the economic and political ideology that took her name. Thaceism was applied in the 11 years of its omnipotence (1979-1990), to the Great Glory of the Free Market, and was unanimously recorded in the dictionaries as a synonym for the harshest liberalism, also known as neo-liberalism.
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on October 13, 1925, above her father's grocery store in Granthham, Central England. "I was born in a house that was practical, serious and intensely religious," she wrote in her autobiography. He studied chemistry with a scholarship at the University of Oxford and worked as a chemist for four years. He later studied legally specializing in tax law. On December 13, 1951, he married businessman Denis Thatcher (1915-2003) with whom he had two children, Mark and Carroll twins.
Her husband supported her political ambitions from the outset. In the 1950s and 1951 elections she was nominated with the Conservative Party in the Dartford constituency - one of the strongholds of the Labor Party - and although not elected, she managed to increase votes to her party and significantly reduce the distance she separated from her.
In the 1959 elections, he was a candidate for the Conservatives in the "sure" elementary region of Findsley in North London. He won the majority comfortably and at the beginning of 1960 he spoke the first reason in the House of Commons. A local newspaper was released the following day with the insightful title "A Star Born".
In 1973, as Minister of Education of the HITT government, he abolished free milk distribution to schools, provoking strong reactions and giving her compatriots a first taste of the incomprehensible determination that characterized it. In 1975 he was elected leader of the Conservative Party, which was in the opposition last year. In the next elections, on March 3, 1979, he was elected Prime Minister of Great Britain with almost 45% and remained at the wheel of the country until 1990.
The first period of her prime minister was marked by the Northern Irish issue and the Falklands war. On June 5, 1981, after more than two months of hunger strike, Bobby Sands, the Irish Liberation Army (IRA) leader in the Northern Ireland prison, died. The demand for hunger strikers was to be considered political prisoners all its imprisoned members who brought to the terrorist stamp by the British authorities. Thatcher kept a harsh stance and refused to negotiate with them. In April 1982, the War of Falks, islands in the southern Atlantic, which was temporarily occupied and temporarily occupied by Argentina. Britain prevailed in the battlefields and recaptured the islands.
In June 1983, he was elected to the Prime Minister of Great Britain for a second term, securing a large majority of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons. Her second sweeping victory in her elections has released her hands to implement a strict privatization program, ignoring the major strikes and "bending" unions irreparably. The strike that marked her prime minister was that of the miners who lasted a year (1984-185). In the end, the strikers were defeated and many of the state -owned coal mines were closed.
On the night of October 11, 1984, a bomb exploded at a Brighton hotel where Thatcher and her government had been abolished for the Conservative Congress, killing five people. The British prime minister did not do the slightest, but IRA took his revenge as he took responsibility.
In June 1987, she led her party to a third historical victory. Three years later, the Conservatives challenged it on the occasion of its anti -European positions (it was opposed to Britain's entry into the European Monetary System and since then Brexit) and its fiscal policy, which was sufficiently neoliberal. On November 22, 1990, he fell victim to an intra -party coup and was forced to resign. John Major was succeeded by prime minister.
In the following years she redeemed her glory by lectures in the US and in Asian countries where she is very popular. In the fall of 2001, she suffered the first stroke while celebrating her 50th anniversary in Madeira. The strokes continued and, on the advice of her doctors, she decided to retire from the forefront.
Margaret Thatcher died on April 8, 2013 in London, at the age of 87.
The "Iron Lady" still has fanatical fans and sworn enemies, who cannot yet agree whether the period of her prime minister was good or bad for Britain. The former argue that Thatcher liberated the economy from suffocating state control and the "hat" of the unions.
In others, even reference to her name causes creepy. For them, it will always be the prime minister who sacrificed three million unemployed on the altar of uncontrolled market, who abolished social spending, which destroyed the national health system, which hated the poor and who dared to say: "Society? There is no such thing. Only family and individuals. "
Whatever the opinion of one, the fact is that Margaret Thatcher changed the appearance of Great Britain forever. Together with Ronald Reagan's like -minded and ally, she won the Cold War. He also won the Falklands War, the war against trade unions and three elections in the series. This feat has made it a "icon" in the eyes of conservative voters.
