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Originally Posted by trackaghost
Are you serious? I hope I'm reading this the wrong way but are you saying that the reason Thatcher was a bad Prime Minister was because she's a woman? And that the political parties here are wise not to have another woman as party leader because of her?
I never liked Thatcher but the reasons why she wasn't a good PM have nothing to do with her gender. In fact Palin reminds me a lot of Thatcher, because Thatcher hardly did anything positive for women while she was in power.
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Oh, god, that came across the wrong way didn't it? I meant they are wise in Britain. Not America. If a female polictician here became leader it would be a disaster - not because she's a woman, but because they're all so detatched from reality.
I meant Thatcher was terrible, and not because she was a woman, but because she had no clue. We had such high hopes for her when she came in, believing she could make the country a fairer, more equal place. We were left in such a state after she went. When I said many women haven't become leader's of their party, they are very wise. Not because they are women, but because they aren't actually good enough - that and they would, inevitably be compared to Thatcher. She was single handedly the worst PM we ever had. And you won't find anyone in Britain who'll disagree with me.
Many female politicians in Britain are no better than the men. Some are worse. And I'm a woman. I have no problem saying that. I'm not about to vote for a woman just because she's a woman. If the man is the stronger, better candidate I'll vote for him. Visa versa. We have have one female polictician called Jackie Smith, she's the Home Secretary, she lives in the same area that two kids have been stabbed to death in in London - two of 26 stabbings of children this year. She still says that knife crime in London is at it's all time lowest. Yet when she did a photocall and was pictured at her local Kebab shop (trying to look 'ordinary') she failed to mention the mention police who escorted her there - and she only lives yards away from the shop.
Sorry, I didn't mean it to come out that way. I merely meant, our female politicians are crap in Britain, and people are comparing Palin, who could be your first female President, to Thatcher, who was ours. In Britain we all know how bad Thatcher was - and people voted for her in on the same principles that Palin is getting voted on.