The Iron Lady strikes again!

British MPs Vote Margaret Thatcher 'Best Prime Minister in Modern History' 

Just more proof the “Iron Lady” was a force to be reckoned with. In a recent survey of British members of parliament as to who was the most successful and decisive prime minister in modern times, Margaret Thatcher came out on top. 

Politics and international relations undergraduates at Royal Holloway University in London polled 158 members of parliament to rate prime ministers from Clement Attlee in 1945 to Gordon Brown in 2007 on a 10-point scale based on 12 traits. Thatcher earned the highest score with 7.4, just beating Attlee’s 7.3, as well as Tony Blair’s 6.8 and Winston Churchill’s 6.5. Her high scores were largely thanks to her bold decisiveness as a leader. 

 “As well as being judged the most successful prime minister, she also elicited the widest range of responses. In death as in life the Iron Lady remains a divisive figure, idolised by some, condemned by others.”  

Baroness Thatcher was a champion of the free market and individualism, once declaring, “There’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.”...

For the 20th Century, I put her a close second to Churchill.  But without question, she is the best PM of the second half of the 20th Century.  Now I really found this interesting.

...Thatcher’s message of self-reliance contrasted strongly with the prime minister she narrowly beat in the MP survey. Clement Attlee was a Democratic Socialist whose administrationintroduced the National Health Service and nationalised one fifth of the British economy. Yet, despite Attlee’s successful reforms, the polled MPs still chose Thatcher and her conservative method as most effective. 

It appears even our British friends recognize that conservatives are the most qualified to get the job done.

 Gee, you mean seizing a fifth of the economy and introducing socialized medicine may not be the best way to go?  Who would have thunk it!

RIP Lady Thatcher.  I know you and Ronnie and smiling at this.