After electoral defeat, she started a new career. Lobbyist for tobacco companies.
They even paid her birthday party:
Tobacco giant pays for $1m Thatcher bash
Philip Morris’s chief executive, Geoffrey Bible, will chair the dinner. A spokesman for the company said: “Philip Morris is writing the Thatcher Foundation a cheque to cover the cost of the party”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tobacco-giant-pays-for-1m-thatcher-bash-1576517.html
Why are you posting this in YSK? How does this information improve anyone’s life in any way?
There is literally no-one here who doesn’t already think Thatcher was a piece of shit.
Now I know she was an even bigger piece of shit than I thought.
Yeah, okay. But anger doesn’t make my life better. If I’m browsing this community I expect tips that can potentially improve the quality of my life, not just finding out about more mud on a dead 20th century dirt bag politician to be angry about.
Works both ways though. It was an interesting post and overreacting discourages others from posting when it is difficult to find a place where something fits.
We really need people that post cool or unique stuff far more than we need any unnecessary pedantism. Just because you imagine some specific category of a community does not make that universal by any stretch. This OP is trying to participate in posting with over twice the posts that you have made on this account. I’m an order of magnitude more than them in that regard. Posting is something to value highly from anyone here, narcissistic whining – not so much. I would post a lot more if people were more positive, as would many others, remember that. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution, but you are not an exception.
You both make excellent points. I’m on the fence.
I don’t follow much politics, and I dont follow political history either. I felt that this was a quality post and I appreciated it.
You’d do yourself a favor by not thinking and speaking for all of us.
But after that she died. Not a total wash, but it was the best thing she ever did.
Ding, dong…
Derek Riggs and Iron Maiden had the right idea.
Yeah, but later they let her get revenge.
She was always a cunt
Why should I know this?
Becoming a lobbyist doesn’t sound like leaving politics.
Correct, it is the final stage of politics where the criminal gets paid for the crimes
Thanks but I already knew she was a piece of shit.
my biggest question around her is how many margarets did she actually end up thatching?
I did not know but its not surprising, perfect fit for a misanthrope like her.
Well she and Kissinger had a competition going…
Following in the footsteps of her idol Milton Friedman.
