Margaret Thatcher
Five things Sir Alex Ferguson said about the Tories
With the announcement today that Sir Alex Ferguson will be retiring as manager of Manchester United at the end of the 2012/13 season after 26 years in the job, Left Foot Forward thought it fitting to look at some of Sir Alex's best political quotes.
Tory spin on coal masks fact that 80 per cent of coal jobs were lost under Thatcher
Amid the concerted attempts to reinvent the Thatcher years in recent days, an intriguing, counter-intuitive claim has been doing the rounds that rather than being the enemy of coal mining Margaret Thatcher was actually kinder to the industry than previous governments.
‘We’re all Thatcherites now’? Sorry Dave, we’re not
Going by a new poll from YouGov, the proposition that we are "all Thatcherites now" appears flawed: some of the central tenets of Thatcherism are deeply unpopular with the public.
Across the nations Thatcher’s legacy goes on dividing people
Amidst the pomp and the circumstance of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral today, across the nations the sight of her coffin, draped in the union jack, is doing little to quash the bitterness felt towards her tenure at Number 10.
Given some of the other rogues that got one, we should have given Thatcher a state funeral
Considering so many divisive and controversial figures have in the past received a state funeral, why deny Margaret Thatcher one?
Thatcherism and Ukip are the perfect match
Writing in The Times yesterday (£), Nigel Farage claimed that if Margaret Thatcher was still leader of the Conservative Party there would be no need for Ukip. More specifically he said: “Had she still been in power in 1992, there would have been a referendum on [the Maastricht] treaty, and the need for UKIP would probably never have arisen.”