Industrious, hard-working, independent, gritty, courageous, fierce, these words seem to be rarely used in women, but it is most appropriate to put them on Margaret Hilda Thatcher.
She was the first politician in the United Kingdom to be elected as a female Prime Minister, the first female leader of the British Conservative Party, and the british Prime Minister for three consecutive terms, serving as british prime minister for 11 years. You know, Churchill, who led the LinkedIn countries to win World War II, was only elected british prime minister twice.
So some people are born with the temperament of a leader, and Thatcher is such a person.
Born into a family of grocers in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, Margaret Thatcher has been a gifted talent since childhood, in Internet buzzwords.
Damn, she also has a strong political talent! While studying at Oxford University, Margaret Thatcher joined the British Conservative Party and became president of the Oxford University Conservative Party Association with excellent political skills within a year.
In 1951, Margaret Thatcher married Dennis Thatcher, and after marriage, she began to change her husband's surname, which is the origin of Thatcher's name.
At this time, although Thatcher was young, he had a high reputation within the Conservative Party. She has a strong personality, does things vigorously, and her political skills are not worse than her predecessors.
In 1953, Margaret Thatcher obtained a lawyer's license, and during her tenure as a lawyer, she accumulated a large amount of political resources, laying the foundation for her later entry into politics.
In 1959, Margaret Thatcher was elected by the Conservative Party as a member of the British House of Commons. Let's put it this way, Thatcher's starting point is the end point for many politicians.
ps: The British government is divided into 650 constituencies according to population density and administrative regions, each with several political parties, and each political party has several candidates participating in the general election. Residents of constituencies can elect a representative from among them, and the candidate with the most votes becomes a senator in the Lower House of Parliament of the United Kingdom, which has only 650 members of the House of Commons.
It is not easy for a woman, a young woman, to survive in the House of Commons and to gain the confidence and respect of politicians. But Margaret Thatcher did, because her rationality, her persistence, her political beliefs were like iron, and no matter how terrible it was after I died, she only wanted to do what she thought was right.
In February 1975, in the chaotic party elections, the calm and calm Margaret Thatcher was successfully elected as the head of the Conservative Party, becoming the first female party leader in britain at that time.
Can you believe that? This woman from the countryside would become Britain's first female Prime Minister.
In May 1979, during the British general election, Margaret Thatcher, the leader of the Conservative Party, won the general election with her outstanding political charm, becoming the first female prime minister in British history.
Margaret Thatcher, the stateswoman who changed Britain, influenced the world and impressed everyone, was a remarkable politician during her 11-year tenure as Prime Minister. She made all-out efforts to reform, so that Britain, an increasingly depressed empire, once again gave new vitality and became the top four capitalist countries in the world.
When Margaret Thatcher came to power, she embarked on sweeping reforms, implementing monetarist policies in the fiscal field, reducing public spending and lowering taxes. Implement large-scale privatization policies in the economy, reduce social spheres, control and reform the social welfare system, etc. At a time when Britain was in the midst of its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, Thatcher's initiatives were frustrated and government measures were poorly implemented. Her approval rating fell to its lowest level of 23 percent on record at the end of 1981. Even so, Margaret Thatcher was uncompromising, and it was only after her strong intervention that the British economy began to gradually improve.
In addition to the internal political chaos, the external relations in Britain at that time were not very good. In 1982, britain and Argentina fought a 74-day war over sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, and Margaret Thatcher fully demonstrated her "Iron Lady" style. Under her command, the increasingly lonely British Empire once again showed the nations of the world that the British were still strong in force. On Argentina's doorstep, the British not only retook the Falklands, but also defeated Argentina, the second most powerful country in South America, by an absolute margin.
A brief War in the Falklands made the world realize that although the British Empire began to walk down the altar after World War II. But the skinny camel still has world-class military strength.
In addition to war, Thatcher's diplomatic skills were equally superb. Her insistence on a special relationship with the United States cemented Britain's strong position in world politics.
During Margaret Thatcher's visit to China in December 1984, the Chinese and British governments signed a joint declaration on Hong Kong. Commenting on China's creative proposal of "one country, two systems", she once commented: "There is no precedent for the concept of 'one country, two systems', that is, to retain two different political, social and economic systems in one country. It provides imaginative answers to Hong Kong's special historical environment. This vision sets an example of how and how problems that seem insoluble can be solved and how they should be solved. ”
It is such a fierce female prime minister, but the evaluation in the United Kingdom tends to be polarized, some people think that she saved the British economy, but others think that she is responsible for the weakening of the traditional industries in the United Kingdom and the rapidly deteriorating gap between the rich and the poor, and so on.
The reason why Margaret Thatcher became the "Iron Lady" in the political arena is inseparable from her strong character, exuberant energy, and vision of the world. Without the courage to revive Britain, which was plagued by the economic crisis, it would have been difficult, but Margaret Thatcher did.
If from a political point of view, Margaret Thatcher ascended to the prime ministerhood as a woman of civilian origin, if she did not have a tough wrist, a strong character and an indomitable spirit, she would not have had a chance to become prime minister. So throughout Thatcher's political career, she is clearly a qualified politician and a qualified prime minister.
Margaret Thatcher used her own personal experience to show the world how civilian girls stand out under the shadow of no prominent door, relying on their own continuous efforts and tenacious struggles. And in Britain, a traditional and conservative country, in the whirlpool and torrent of the Conservative Party's political struggle, step by step along the ladder of success, and finally entered 10 Downing Street, ascending to the top of power.