Hawke/Keating = stuff the workers?
Bwa?
Hawkie?
RIP, Lady Thatcher. 
Rather unsurprised at the usual hate-on here and even at first glance it clearly exceeds that for Hugo Chavez.
Not exactly a huge amount of Venezuelan dopers.
Damn, post 60:
For Blair, read Major.
Bur it was an easy mistake to make.
I know Blair wasn’t the most left wing PM we have ever had, but conservative?
John Major a Conservative PM turned down a peerage.
ETA well while I was typing you corrected it so never mind
But only after the palace received assurances that he would turn it down.
Denis Thatcher would have been given a peerage years before he was created a Baronet, if his wife had not been PM.
Yeah, I didn’t get that either. Aren’t the Labor Party general pro-working class? I’m a bit young to have been politically aware at the time, but Howard is the one I remember introducing Work Choices and cracking down on the unions.
A bit of a cock-up at a Taiwanese TV station, which illustrated the story with footage of Queen Elizabeth II.
Well, those westerners all look alike 
Yeah. Hawke and the pilots strike. The airforce was used and overseas pilots hired.
Hatred from the SDMB Far Left is the best possible tribute she could receive.
My hubby and I had considered going to see Bill Bragg on Friday night, and the odd thing about Margaret Thatcher’s death was it made me wish I had tickets to wherever Billy was playing Monday night.
He was in Calgary. Article on his show here.
No, peers can sit in the Commons now.
Why didn’t he take it?
No, better is hatred from the British left – and center – and moderate right – which she seems to getting in plenty, now.
He didn’t want to kill his son’s political career, although by 1955 it was pretty much over. He also wanted to keep his own seat in the Commons (he didn’t retire until 1964) and wanted to die as Winston Churchill.
He said afterwards that the Queen (who only asked because she knew he would say no) had been so nice to offer it to him that he almost accepted purely out of respect for her.
It looks like somebody’s not getting an invite to the funeral. 
Grant I don’t understand why la Señora Fernandez De Kirchner would want to attend in the first place.
Well, he sure as shit wasn’t Labour.