"MARGARET THATCHER:A LIFE OF COMPLEX AND COMPLICATED LEGACIES"

Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister that was popularly known as the Iron-Lady of Britain died today of stroke at the age of 87. This is the final end of every mortal being that is born of a woman. She ruled Britain from 1979 to 1990 and made many major international and domestic impacts that live on till today. How will this iron-lady of Great Britain be remembered? Will historians of the 21st century be fair to her? What were the legacies that this woman left behind in all truth and in all honesty? Will time, history and posterity, the three true judges of all historical leaders put her on the best side of history?

She died today leaving behind too many complex and complicated legacies in Great Britain and around the world. Her leadership was deeply divisive and polarizing in nature. She was liked and idolized by the conservatives, and at the same time she was highly hated and opposed by the liberals. On the domestic front, she was the true champion for the British middle class. She destroyed many industries and communities in the United Kingdom through her economic policy of privatization. She implemented the laws of stop and frisk in Britain that targeted the urban minorities. The implementation of these laws in Britain saw the worst race riots to date. She lost power not because she was voted out by the British voters, but because she became a political liability for the British conservative party that then forced her out of power in an unceremonious manner.

On the international scene, she was a good friend of the America and Ronald Reagan. Margaret Thatcher allowed the United States to have missile bases in Britain, she won the Faulklan war against the invasion of the nation of Argentina. Margaret Thatcher worked with the American jointly and to bring down the iron curtain, the Berlin war and the final collapse of the communist USSR. She openly and publicly supported the white apartheid minority government of South Africa and did not support the political struggles of the Black South Africans for racial justice and equality. She called Nelson Mandela, the political figure of the ANC of South Africa a terrorist. The legacies  that this iron-lady left behind will continue to be relevant in this 21st century human universe.