Spot On Lady Thatcher
by Ed Moy Nearly 25 years after Margaret Thatcher’s keep-Great-Britain-free-from-one-government-one-currency-one-Europe sentiment helped force her resignation, the Iron Lady has been proved right yet again. Most prime ministers are generally forced out of office over failure, like failure to win an election or failure to effectively lead their government. But Mrs. Thatcher won all three of her elections and effectively led the governments she formed. It was not failure that helped do her in, but the fear of her peers that she might win another election and effectively keep England out of the experiment to unify Europe governments. One of her convictions that got her in trouble was that she believed in the superiority of decentralization over centralization. Nowhere was that more evident than her approach to the European unification movement. While most countries saw an opportunity to create a socialist utopia of centralized government and benevolent decision-making, Mrs. Thatcher sa...