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Margaret Thatcher

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The Resume

    (October 13, 1925-April 8, 2013)
    Birth name is Margaret Roberts
    First Female British Prime Minister (1979-90)
    Was a Conservative and never lost an election

Why she might be annoying:

    Her own party (The Conservatives) rejected her (1990).
    The Conservatives rejected her tax plans and her reluctance to join the European single economy.
    While minister of Education, she abolished free milk in schools.
    During her tenure, unemployment rose.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She won the war against Argentina, preserving Britain's interest in the Falkland Islands (1982).
    She graduated Oxford University with a degree in chemistry.
    She was in favor of shrinking the government and was able to privatize a number of bureaucracies.
    She tended to sleep only four hours a night.
    She was married for 50 years (1951).
    She survived an assassination bombing by Irish protestors (1984).
    Concerning the end of the cold war, she said: 'There is a euphoria after the end which makes you say, 'Let's disarm.'
    After World War I, we disarmed too quickly.
    The Americans left Europe.
    Had they stayed in Europe there would never have been World War II.
    We mustn't make that mistake this time.'

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 61 Votes: 68.85% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 52 Votes: 59.62% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 361 Votes: 58.73% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 115 Votes: 48.70% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 103 Votes: 54.37% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 630 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 269 Votes: 55.39% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 122 Votes: 58.20% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 75 Votes: 70.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 285 Votes: 58.95% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 179 Votes: 56.98% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 585 Votes: 50.60% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 213 Votes: 60.09% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 883 Votes: 47.79% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 302 Votes: 49.67% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 103 Votes: 48.54% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 200 Votes: 65.50% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 227 Votes: 46.70% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 199 Votes: 54.27% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 345 Votes: 57.68% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 631 Votes: 55.78% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 787 Votes: 58.32% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 46092 Votes: 78.19% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 4179 Votes: 41.04% Annoying