Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?

[Pat Mustard]

Who's your favourite historical figure, or at least one of your favourites?

I already named a few, previously.

As far as Thatcher goes, she was all of what you mentioned. But, and that's a big but, since you always tend to only look at what you want to see. She was a lot of things you probably wouldn't agree with. I was old enough to watch her age. Back then I didn't get half of what she was all about. I totally agreed with her on taking a hard stance in the Falkland crisis and I didn't give a shit over what she did to the british working class. Now, looking back, my image of her has changed. Quite a lot actually. She more or less destroyed the unions, which is the major reason why so many british people have to cope with whatever the government dishes out. Not the EU, not some big conspiracy, but the absence of any real force fighting their corner.

Thatcher was a useful idiot for the free market ideologues who were having a lot of trouble getting their foot in the door of a major economy before her (not helped by the utter economic basket case their experiment in Chile was. What few people get is that the Chilean economy only started rising again when Pinochet reintroduced some of Allendes policies in the mid eighties, and the country never regained the lost ground fully), who, contrary to the image fostered for her, was easily lead and indecisive during most of her permiership.