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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies [View all]
Source: BBC
Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.
Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."
Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22067155
Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died from a stroke
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Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I truly am sorry for the ones she hurt.
In_The_Wind
Apr 2013
#43
Look, I understand the need to find some good in a person who has passed away
CreekDog
Apr 2013
#121
If she was alive today, I wonder whether she would be advocating "chained CPI" (nt)
Nye Bevan
Apr 2013
#56
The Falklands have been British since 1833. Argentina did not exist as a country until 1853. (nt)
Nye Bevan
Apr 2013
#81
A miner? Do you mean a minor? A miner is the last person who could support Maggie!
LeftishBrit
Apr 2013
#125
Now do we have to wait for white smoke from Parliament to see who will be the new Baroness?
Botany
Apr 2013
#14
These days Mr Lydon is worth $10 million+ and advertises butter in Country Life magazine. nt
Nye Bevan
Apr 2013
#19
If you're in the mood today for a slow dance to a fine ballad, here's the tune . . .
leveymg
Apr 2013
#27
I'm quite positive her family has never heard of an American Democratic website such as DU.
HughBeaumont
Apr 2013
#33
Why should I show respect in death for someone I disrespected in life? n/t
backscatter712
Apr 2013
#48
I guess the Scots are getting to work on the hole straight to Hell then...
Yukari Yakumo
Apr 2013
#69
She was a pioneer in the art of waging stupid, pointless little wars for fun and profit.
alarimer
Apr 2013
#98
margaret thatcher proved that women can be equally agressive, sociopathic and cruel as men.
La Lioness Priyanka
Apr 2013
#103