Posted September 16, 200717 yr The row surrounding Margaret Thatcher's Downing Street meeting with Gordon Brown has intensified after it was revealed she has accepted his offer to commission a painting of her and for it to go on permanent display in No10. The latest evidence of the extraordinary harmony between the two is likely to cause further controversy on both the Labour and Tory benches. A bitter rift is said to exist between Lady Thatcher and David Cameron. Are Labour now more right wing than the Tories? Why be dressed in red when she has a perfectly good blue dress at home? Throughout the 1980’s Labour despised everything Thatcher did, but now apparently does Brown want to be seen as carrying on her work. There is an irony that no one who was caught in the housing bubble of the late 1980s can have missed last week: Margaret Thatcher was sipping tea with Gordon Brown in Downing Street at the same time as the Bank of England, the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority were frantically working out an emergency loan to bail out the country's fifth largest mortgage lender. Source: Mail on Sunday
September 16, 200717 yr Good on Brown ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ he has seen what the most popular PM ever (3 successive election wins and was around for the first 2 years of a successful 4th term) achieved and wants to carry on her legacy
September 16, 200717 yr Good on Brown ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ he has seen what the most popular PM ever (3 successive election wins and was around for the first 2 years of a successful 4th term) achieved and wants to carry on her legacy most popular ever?.... :lol: shes also the most HATED ever....
September 16, 200717 yr most popular ever?.... :lol: shes also the most HATED ever.... Still won in 79. 83, 87 and ruled for the first 3 years of the administration that Major took over and won election in 91 so she is easily the most successful PM ever in this country
September 16, 200717 yr But noone else has run the country for so long. At least when she ran the country she did not go back on her word! I'm not saying she is not without flaws but still!
September 16, 200717 yr But noone else has run the country for so long. WRONG! blair was pm for longer...
September 16, 200717 yr Still won in 79. 83, 87 and ruled for the first 3 years of the administration that Major took over and won election in 91 so she is easily the most successful PM ever in this country statistics.... you can interpret them to prove anything... she also had one of the largest votes against her as the oposition was split.
September 16, 200717 yr Blair 87-97 Maggie 79-90 i presume you mean '97-'07 ! lol.. but ok... dunno where that came from, i shouldnt have made that fundemental error...
September 16, 200717 yr Surely portraits of all previous PMs hang in Downing Street? Whatever your political beliefs surely the position they rose to should be respected?
September 16, 200717 yr Author Surely portraits of all previous PMs hang in Downing Street? Whatever your political beliefs surely the position they rose to should be respected? Although photographs of all modern Prime Ministers line the main staircase in No10, only two 20th Century premiers have paintings on display: David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, who respectively led Britain in the two World Wars
September 16, 200717 yr Although photographs of all modern Prime Ministers line the main staircase in No10, only two 20th Century premiers have paintings on display: David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, who respectively led Britain in the two World Wars I stand corrected -_- (I must be thinking of Dumbledore's office :rofl: )
September 16, 200717 yr Are you sure the Prime Minister did not say: I want Lady Thatcher to hang in No 10??? In all seriousness, I'm no fan of Lady Thatcher, but even I'm not that churlish to deny that she is on a par with Lloyd George & Churchill in terms of 20th Century British historical significance. Therefore she DOES deserve her painting to be on display.
September 17, 200717 yr maybe he wants it over the fireplace to keep his bairns from the fire? Or for darts practice? Brown's seriously losing his mind as well as thousand upon thousand of Labour voters.....
September 17, 200717 yr This is surely entirely political. Brown believes that he can pull a fast one on Cameron by siding with Thatcher. There are many disillusioned Tories who don't like Cameron's policies. Brown wants them to vote for him at the next General Election, and he doesn't care how far to the right he has to go to stay in power. The political parties used to be arranged from left to right: Labour > Liberal > Conservative Now it seems to be: Liberal Democrat > Conservative > New Labour Bizarre!
September 17, 200717 yr The old "Brown-noser" is just following on from what his mate Tony said when he expressed "admiration" for Thatch.. Frankly, I'm disgusted at the man (just setting aside the fact that he is betraying the voters in Scotland who voted for him for a moment..), he sat in opposition of everything Thatcher ever did as an Opposition MP, and now he's praising her, and we call this a "Labour" Govt.. How ironic that the likes of Malcolm Rifkind (and the Tories in general under David Cameron's regime...) now appear to want to distance themselves from Thatch.... Nu Labor = Old Tory.....
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