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  Interesting post DT1....
  
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  Define 'true feminists' certainly the left wing 'wimmin' man haters that haunt the Labour Party would agree with your point. Mrs T believes in a meritocracy and that women should compete fairly in the market without 'all women shortlists' and other so called 'positive' discrimination that the feminist extremists want. It is these feminists who are selling women short and Mrs T who had taken on and beaten men in a mens world who showed the way it should be done, breaking once and for all that glass ceiling.
  
  As for Friendman (and Hayak, who preceeded him) they set the economic model that saved the British economy from its post war terminal decline. Brown has done his best to resume that decline and once again the economy needs to be saved. The foolish economic errors of Brown/Blair owe nothing to her legacy or Friedman or Hayak. She would never have brought in the tri-partied system of banking regulation and 'light touch'. She would never have ignored the levels of debt in the economy while setting interest rates. She would never have let public spending to soar irresponsibly ahead of tax receipts. She was truly a fiscal Conservative and did not believe in living on credit. To try to associate her with the causes of todays woes is to totally misunderstand her and is a criminal misrepesentation. In her 10 years plus as PM she rejected to Blair/Brown approach consistently, what has been done over the last 12/13 years is not 'new'. I have copies of both great works, Free to Choose (Freidman) and The Road to Serfdom (Hayak) here in my office, both well thumbed and read more than once.
  
  As for poverty, she felt strongly about bringing people up out of poverty. She knew the truth that State Benefits are not the way to do it. Only by enterprise and thier own hard work can people lift themselves out of poverty and that is even more important than a formal education. It needs prosperous businesess to do that in a string economy and that is where Friendman come in. then of course you can also generate the tax revenues to sustain a safety net and support for those incapable of pulling themselves up, the truly sick and disabled for instance along with the elderly. Yes, thats right, prosperous businesses and a strong economy must be achieved and is the most important factor to end poverty, things Labour always fail to achieve.
  
  Once again the attitudes you refer to of people happy to live on debt with a big tv has been answered already. A middle class shopkeepers daughter like Mrs T of her generation would not approve of spending money you dont have and that sensible idea was transferred to Governing.
  
  I will say that education reform was her big failure. She did not even attempt to wrest education away from the destructive infleunces of the left wing educational establishment. Her successes are so much greater though than her failures.

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