SIR – The Labour Party’s media machine, the BBC, are currently repeating old clips of the assassination of Democratic USA President JF Kennedy as it comes to his 50th memoriam. The anniversary falls on November 22, his death being in 1963.
However, on that same date in 1990 another significant event occurred – UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher resigned to become a legend.
She won her first General Election in 1979 with an overall majority of 43.
Her second victory, the landslide, was gained in 1983, overall majority of 144.
This was the response from the UK electors to her outstanding victory in the Falkland Islands. We were proud to be British and we felt like a proper nation following years of trade union-led decline.
She secured her third term in 1987 to become one of the longest serving Prime Ministers in our country’s history, and her majority was 102.
How we need a new Margaret Thatcher now to get this country sorted out! She would have put Europe in its place.
Alan Chapman, Beck Lane, Bingley
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