The Thatcher Legacy
By - On apartheid, she was, for all intents and purposes, for it: “The Conservative prime minister had dismissed the ANC as “a typical terrorist organisation” and refused to back sanctions against the apartheid government, pursuing instead a policy of “constructive engagement”. South Africa was then seen as a vital ally in stemming communist expansion.”
- She was a pioneer of disastrous pension privatization schemes.
- Her economic record was not terribly impressive. Her record on poverty and inequality, in particular, is as horrible as you would expect.
- To show you what an outlier American conservatism is, though, her AIDS policy was humane and effective.