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Honestly?Boro Boy wrote:Who better that Britain's first female PM: https://www.change.org/p/bank-of-englan ... ew-50-note
I don't knock what you said but Thatcher was a PM at a time of great change, at a time when instigating change would always cause conflict; she was a war leader not there to put more women in Parliament but to put the best representatives (male or female) there. Although I recognise your offering as a very just option then so too are nearly 1400 VC winners and why should any one of them who gave their lifes (in many cases) be honoured more than another.... A nation's notes should have nations leaders on them.macliam wrote:I wouldn't put Thatcher on a doormat, she was a divisive, arrogant woman who did nothing to improve the number of women in Parliament.
Certainly a better candidate
https://www.change.org/p/zehra-zaidi-pu ... ew-50-note
Someone who sacrificed herself for the cause of freedom and had the courage to face her oppressors.
macliam wrote:Does Cameron count? He certainly wasn't a man.......
Thatcher doesn't deserve any recognition. Perhaps those citing Blair as a war criminal should take another look at the Belgrano, which never entered the Falklands exclusion zone and was actually sailing away from the British task force when sunk with the loss of 321 members of the crew and two civilians who were on board at the time.
Thatcher personally authorised the attack:
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her War Cabinet, meeting at Chequers the following day, agreed to a request from Admiral Terence Lewin, the Chief of the Defence Staff, to alter the rules of engagement and allow an attack on General Belgrano outside the exclusion zone. Although the group was outside the British-declared total exclusion zone of 370 km (200 nautical miles) radius from the islands, the British decided that it was a threat. After consultation at Cabinet level, Thatcher agreed that Commander Chris Wreford-Brown should attack General Belgrano.
We'll not start on the use of the police to enforce political doctrine - I went to the Rhondda during the miner's strike and saw police vans "guarding" the pitheads to prevent demonstrations. Then there was Orgreave.....
Yeah, what a suitable candidate for putting on a banknote.....
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