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Liberty Clip: January 5, 2013

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Written by Sinclair Davidson

January 5th, 2013 at 12:00 am

Posted in Liberty Clip

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  1. Excellent. Graceful and polite but forceful, full of simple language and exampling. What a communicator, and what a woman of ideas.

    That, Julia, is real female leadership, and not a trace anywhere of faux victim’s misogyny.

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

    5 Jan 13 at 9:12 am

  2. I have been wondering lately, after what followed in the UK, how is the world a better place because of Margaret Thatcher. Her time seems to have been a bit of a ‘Prague Spring’.

    Biota

    5 Jan 13 at 9:25 am

  3. Great woman, everything she says is relevant today.

    MattR

    5 Jan 13 at 9:52 am

  4. Biota, she showed how one clear-sighted woman and some good ideas could actually make a difference.

    Those times may come again. Perhaps not soon though.

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

    5 Jan 13 at 11:51 am

  5. That, Julia, is real female leadership

    Sigh … The Brits got Maggie and we got Julia.

    Ellen of Tasmania

    5 Jan 13 at 11:59 am

  6. Her daughter Carol writes in 2008 about the relation between her mother and the feminist movement in the early 1970s, when Margaret was Minister of Education in the Heath Cabinet.

    Feminists didn’t think she was doing enough for their cause. This was the era of “Women’s Lib” but my mother was a stratosphere away from the bra-burning demonstrations of the time. On the contrary, she felt the movement had done very little for her. She was a hard-working example of female success from relatively lowly beginnings who had achieved cabinet rank by pragmatically getting on with the task in hand rather than by manning barricades and wasting precious time protesting. (Carol Thatcher 2008, 47,48)

    Gab

    5 Jan 13 at 12:11 pm

  7. The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

    – Margaret Thatcher

    Gab

    5 Jan 13 at 12:18 pm

  8. Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them.

    also Margaret Thatcher.

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

    5 Jan 13 at 12:26 pm

  9. Two observations:

    Thatcher notes that compromising convictions usually results in the left making further advances.

    In today’s Australian Tom Switzer and Nicole Hemmer praise Nixon who, unlike today’s tea partiers was not rigidly ideological. They state that “following his example would help Republicans in “a more liberal post electoral environment” in the US.

    Thatcher further decries the need of many for “a quiet life” which she believes can lead to a loss of freedom and human progress. Yet didn’t Howard call for an Australia that is “relaxed and comfortable”?

    Comments anyone?

    Viva

    5 Jan 13 at 2:00 pm

  10. Sigh … The Brits got Maggie and we got Julia.

    We nearly got Bronwyn Bishop… *shudders*

    Andrew

    5 Jan 13 at 4:04 pm

  11. Thatcher rejected idea of feminism because like many other successful women, feminism is based on the idea of being a victim.

    Andrew

    5 Jan 13 at 4:14 pm

  12. “Conviction” there is a word i haven’t heard for ages.

    Obio

    5 Jan 13 at 5:44 pm

  13. Thatcher rejected idea of feminism because like many other successful women, feminism is based on the idea of being a victim.

    Maggie was the true feminist of modern times.

    JC

    5 Jan 13 at 5:49 pm

  14. Listening to the later part of the video I didn’t think Thatcher was really across the minimum wage question. However then I remembered that the UK had no such thing in 1977. The minimum wage law in the UK was enacted in 1999. She had no real need to be familiar with the issue.

    I happened to watch “The Iron Lady” for the first time today. The movie missed such a lot of what she was about as a political figure. Instead it seemed overly preoccupied with her decline in old age.

    TerjeP

    6 Jan 13 at 1:39 am

  15. Who in the Coalition today is able and willing to argue the case for liberalism in the Great Lady’s forthright style?

    johno

    6 Jan 13 at 6:43 am

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