tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post1926375146973255912..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: Maid of Grantham, Made of IronAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-406797844214282872012-02-28T15:42:11.376-08:002012-02-28T15:42:11.376-08:00Yes, Triton, I do. Welcome. :-)Yes, Triton, I do. Welcome. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-4850084348482385192012-02-27T21:56:17.846-08:002012-02-27T21:56:17.846-08:00Your blog cool...I'm Triton from Blogcatalog. ...Your blog cool...I'm Triton from Blogcatalog. Remember?Triton Limhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05148133364663546565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-24541000766490243672012-02-22T15:28:03.809-08:002012-02-22T15:28:03.809-08:00Yes, Rehan, I agree; the movie was a second rate v...Yes, Rehan, I agree; the movie was a second rate vehicle for a first rate performance.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-79609868881298639822012-02-21T16:41:57.349-08:002012-02-21T16:41:57.349-08:00I thought The Iron Lady was a really badly made fi...I thought <i>The Iron Lady</i> was a really badly made film though Meryl Streep's acting the part was superb I got bored very soon into the film and was hoping the story-line would improve a little, a hope that remained unfulfilled. The flashback technique was also very badly managed and confusing - I much preferred the brilliant earlier film <i>Long Walk to Finchley</i>.Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-50082293503765116272012-02-19T15:14:18.786-08:002012-02-19T15:14:18.786-08:00Yes, Michael, she was.Yes, Michael, she was.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77214874717600535222012-02-19T15:13:21.473-08:002012-02-19T15:13:21.473-08:00Calvin, British cabinet government, even under Tha...Calvin, British cabinet government, even under Thatcher,is a bit like the Roman Empire before Diocletian. In other words the PM is first among equals rather than dominant.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-87871848750429581832012-02-19T15:09:47.624-08:002012-02-19T15:09:47.624-08:00Chris, it was slightly distasteful but not wholly ...Chris, it was slightly distasteful but not wholly unsympathetic.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-12821932943683170312012-02-17T01:32:33.916-08:002012-02-17T01:32:33.916-08:00I quite agree with your characterisation of the pr...I quite agree with your characterisation of the prime ministers who followed Margaret Thatcher. What about the ones before her? They were just as pathetic. She was truly an aberration. What I particularly enjoyed was the reaction of foreigners. Americans, Canadians, Germans, Italians, Dutch - all were united in wishing they had someone like her in charge of their countries.Michael J McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15420031175369432868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-27155320523492875542012-02-16T18:25:08.560-08:002012-02-16T18:25:08.560-08:00Well, I am rather naive in the details of politick...Well, I am rather naive in the details of politicking, but I could never understand how she failed to recognize the traitors in her cabinet and destroy them. There may have been unseen influences at work of which I know nothing, and she remains the only postwar PM worth a damn.Calvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640148105202971907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-81694393380156355312012-02-16T18:23:03.942-08:002012-02-16T18:23:03.942-08:00Hindsight is always 20/20 vision.Hindsight is always 20/20 vision.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-31657822046618075682012-02-16T18:09:02.411-08:002012-02-16T18:09:02.411-08:00Ok, well perhaps it's a case of "de gusti...Ok, well perhaps it's a case of "de gustibus non disputandum est" . . . but would you agree that the decision to depict Thatcher as she is in THE IRON LADY would seem to carry a whiff of Schadenfreude?Chris Coffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16599801901347194290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-73182127741878906182012-02-16T17:55:58.065-08:002012-02-16T17:55:58.065-08:00Great quote, Chris! I don't agree with your a...Great quote, Chris! I don't agree with your assessment of <i>The Iron Lady</i>. As a portrait I thought it quite sympathetic.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-38533269602919235242012-02-16T17:06:32.392-08:002012-02-16T17:06:32.392-08:00Hi Ana, I agree with you, contra the always-insigh...Hi Ana, I agree with you, contra the always-insightful Calvin, that Thatcher wasn't strong enough to affect the changes he proposes. She was a kind of miracle, a late but authentic bloom of a now-vanishing England, and it was remarkable that she achieved the extraordinary changes that she was able to do . . . the poll tax was, in my view, in essence a tragic case of Thatcher forgetting how much cleverer she was than almost everybody else.<br /><br />I don't think there was a conspiracy, per se, but by the time of the poll tax she had so many enemies that they succeeded in distorting the issue from her attempt to create transparency around the recklessly irresponsible Labour councils. She was shouted down with the Big Lie that she was forcing poor people to pay more than rich people.<br /><br />I'm a passionate admirer of hers, and I was a bit concerned by your tepid response to the slanderous and revoltingly mean-spirited Meryl Streep vehicle--and I am very glad to see you wielding your sparkling rapier on her behalf . . .!<br /><br />I've quoted this dictum by Nietzsche before, but rarely has there been such a great example of his insight that "A nation is nature's way of producing two or three great people--yes, and then circumventing them!Chris Coffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16599801901347194290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-46886468124220560822012-02-16T16:40:20.032-08:002012-02-16T16:40:20.032-08:00The thing is, Calvin, she was strong but not stron...The thing is, Calvin, she was strong but not strong enough. Thatcherism was in many ways an aberration, a mirage for a season. She was atypical in a party still dominated by the Heathites, still dominated by those like Howe and Clarke who had swallowed the European lie whole. I'm going to say more on this but I think there was a deliberate conspiracy, perhaps emanating from Brussels, to have her removed. We have seen more recently how the prime ministers of Greece and Italy have been deposed without the consent of the national electorate. I do agree, though, that the ill-conceived poll tax was her biggest tactical error.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-17989386936663269922012-02-16T16:32:11.386-08:002012-02-16T16:32:11.386-08:00David, I had high hopes. It's not his face bu...David, I had high hopes. It's not his face but his apparent absence of backbone that worries me. He is indeed the heir to Blair, not Thatcher.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-89536995426655322642012-02-16T16:30:16.781-08:002012-02-16T16:30:16.781-08:00Thank you, Chris. Yes, of course you shall. :-)Thank you, Chris. Yes, of course you shall. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-55181485006910789302012-02-16T16:29:26.252-08:002012-02-16T16:29:26.252-08:00Deino, you flatter me. :-)Deino, you flatter me. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-55899960811127912622012-02-16T16:28:54.331-08:002012-02-16T16:28:54.331-08:00That's the big thing, Anthony. I tweeted this...That's the big thing, Anthony. I tweeted this and rather surprisingly I got an approving comment from a someone in Argentina, who said that Kirchner was inflaming the issue because of her declining popularity.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-41954601044736459412012-02-16T16:09:30.695-08:002012-02-16T16:09:30.695-08:00Although I am a qualified admirer of Mrs. T., I fe...Although I am a qualified admirer of Mrs. T., I feel she missed the opportunity to effect the most vital changes necessary to ensure the future security of Britain: exit the EU, reverse the destruction of selective schools, abolish the race relations industry, and abolish the BBC. I also believe she made a severe tactical mistake in her handling of the poll tax. Instead of attempting to impose a standard funding method for all local councils, she ought to have simply ended central funding, and allowed local authorities to impose local funding measures however they wished. This would have exposed the socialist leeches in all their awful splendour, and given taxpayers the incentive for change needed to end their profligacy for good.<br /><br />But Mrs. T. demonstrated clearly that descent into the socialist abyss can be reversed with sufficient courage to resist. Imagine a tory government - or a libertarian one - without the europhile and socialist moles who betrayed their leader and their country. Britain might become livable again in less than a generation.Calvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640148105202971907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-6532508645414706442012-02-16T12:07:37.395-08:002012-02-16T12:07:37.395-08:00I'm sorry you don't like the current PM. P...I'm sorry you don't like the current PM. Perhaps it is his smooth unlined face that makes him look phony, but that is hardly his fault.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12833152757060762914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-36894871076939571272012-02-16T07:41:43.750-08:002012-02-16T07:41:43.750-08:00Maybe one day you'll be Thatcher 2.0 :-)Maybe one day you'll be Thatcher 2.0 :-)Deinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02150562072736479808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-48757014544776419902012-02-15T18:07:21.112-08:002012-02-15T18:07:21.112-08:00The Argentines are making a bit of a fuss again ov...The Argentines are making a bit of a fuss again over "The Last Refuge of a Declining Empire", the Falklands issue involves substantial off shore oil reserves.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-44787170986041662262012-02-15T17:53:34.253-08:002012-02-15T17:53:34.253-08:00Margaret Thatcher was indeed a great leader who ha...Margaret Thatcher was indeed a great leader who had a firm grasp on her nations affairs through turbulent times. Perhaps through necessity another Titan will rise, nay, must rise, to meet the present challenges? perhaps Ana Von Bismarck!anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.com