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Thread #34347   Message #463547
Posted By: Gervase
16-May-01 - 04:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mo Mowlam for Prime Minister
Subject: RE: BS: Mo Mowlam for Prime Minister
Thatcher may not have killed people directly, but her decisions and policies did. Remember the Belgrano?
And whole comunities have been destroyed as a result of her policies - think of Corby, think of the Notts, Yorkshire and Kent coalfields...
But when a politician has said "There is no such thing as society", you know what to expect, I suppose.
Sorry, getting into rant mode there.
As for Mo; yes she's intelligent, iconoclastic and gutsy, and I've got more time for her than most, but she was also capable of some naivete in Northern Ireland. On the whole though, yes - she's a good thing (as is Clare Short). A little too blunt and honest to be a PM, however.