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Anthony Clare on Thatcher's 1985 interview with Donald MacCormick for BBC's Newsnight, quoted in Michael Cockerell, Live from Number 10: The Inside Story of Prime Ministers and Television (1989), p. 299
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Given half the chance she would have led poor MacCormick and the camera crew in a chorus of "Rule Britannia" before the credits rolled. She is the most outrageous female performer since Edna Everage, she positively exults in getting whatever Buggins is unfortunate enough to have his turn in the ring and clouting him round the head, and kneeing him in the groin and all the time she smiles that damnable smile.

— Anthony Clare

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Given half the chance she would have led poor MacCormick and the camera crew in a chorus of "Rule Britannia" before the credits rolled. She is the most outrageous female performer since Edna Everage, she positively exults in getting whatever Buggins is unfortunate enough to have his turn in the ring and clouting him round the head, and kneeing him in the groin and all the time she smiles that damnable smile." in the context of "Anthony Clare on Thatcher's 1985 interview with Donald MacCormick for BBC's Newsnight, quoted in Michael Cockerell, Live from Number 10: The Inside Story of Prime Ministers and Television (1989), p. 299" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Margaret Thatcher

About Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British politician and stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime minister and the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century. As prime minister, she implemented neoliberal economic policies of deregulation and privatization that became known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.