Margaret Thatcher In A Tank
Thatcher sat in a fucking tank.
Margaret thatcher in a tank. The big picture is by jockel fink ap although somewhat out of character the tank and the scarf re cemented her reputation as the iron lady. Margaret thatcher driving a tank while visiting british troops in west germany duration. Challenger 2 main battle tank raw engine sounds duration.
Peter jordantime life picturesgetty images. Thatcher scored a photographic coup when she had been photographed in a challenger tank. 13 october 1925 8 april 2013 was a british stateswoman who served as prime minister of the united kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the conservative party from 1975 to 1990.
Ap thatcher waves from the cockpit of the sr 3 aircraft while campaigning for re election in 1987. So a few minutes later thatcher and her sheepish bodyguard were huddled into a room sat at a table flanked by cardboard targets and were then left there in total darkness. By 1986 thatcher looked pretty comfortable riding in the turret of a tank.
Their belief in hayeks vision of the free market chimed with thatchers own ideological inclinations heavily based on her upbringing as a shopkeepers daughter which she believed mirrored how capitalism. Margaret hilda thatcher baroness thatcher lg om dstj pc frs honfrsc nee roberts. She was the longest serving british prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office.
On that day at nato training camp at fallingbostel south of hamburg mrs. Thatcher was particularly receptive to free market ideas coming from the institute of economic affairs who had loaned iea trustee nigel vinson to margaret thatcher and keith joseph as they set about establishing their own free market think tank the centre for policy studies. Margaret thatcher out for spin in union jack flying challenger tank during manoeuvres at the nato training ground near falling bostel photograph.