TheGame said:
Thatcher was very much a supporter of Apartheid. The ANC were a terrorist organisation, when the rest of the world was putting sanctions against RSA in the 80's Thatcher refused, working with the minority white government instead.
She only publicly softened her stance when public opinion started to build momentum, culminating in a fairly huge concert at Wembley Stadium in 1988. The tide had turned, and certainly in Britain there was no way she could any longer publicly support the minority government.
What was interesting is even prior to the concert a motion was filed in the commons by 24 Tory MP's slamming the BBC (Who broadcast the concert) for giving "publicity to a movement that encourages the African National Congress in its terrorist activities" - Yes, that was Thatchers government, a government that when the world is crying out for the release of Nelson Mandela, actively criticizes the BBC for broadcasting such a concert.
Flash forward 20 years after the end of apartheid and what is happening in South Africa? Country is a basket case. Black on black racial crime everywhere.
You need to look up moral relativism. It is applicable here. Majority were wrong and ALL South Africans are now paying for it. Will the nation ever recover? Not likely. Oh but we get to say we're not racist!
Yippee!
Another group of people messing about in the affairs of others. Meddling has done almost no good in 20th Century politics. It's caused more trouble than it has helped. If Thatcher's stance was popular, the Saffer's wouldn't be imigrating to the land Down Under all the time and a rapist wouldn't be the president in their nation. But hey, that's what you get when you elect terrorists. Ask the Irish commenting here. Their Sinn Fein leader is lucky he never had a bullet put in his skull by Thatcher because it was more than warranted.
So yeah, think about that. Murderers and those who would use terror are now running the show in corners of the so called civilised world. But damn Thatcher to hell for some unpleasantries but an economy that is the second strongest in Europe.
I also read about a housing crisis in the UK? STOP THE IMMIGRANTS. Duh. Sydney has the SAME PROBLEM. It's simple supply versus demand only in the UK and USA the national mortgage repayment equates to 16 and 17% of total income. Come to Australia. Our economy is still strong, idiot govt, but our mortgage repayments are 32-33% of the average income. Add in UK govt subsidies are extravagent and exorbitant...yeah, the UK really suck to live in. Tell that to all the Romanians heading there soon.
Supply vs demand. If new land is not released and thus new properties hitting the market do not match raising population figures, the demand increases. Thus cost goes up. Most housing is over inflated and the market needs to take a dive. Fact. BTW housing in the UK is better than it is here. But I do digress. A generation will be unable to afford a home in many nations. Thatcher is not to blame for that. Small cog in a much larger mechanism that bears the brunt of the blame.