Margaret Thatcher - the Iron Lady 玛格丽特撒切尔 - 铁娘子

Why Margaret Thatcher Became The Most Controversial Figure Of The 80s? | The Iron Lady | Timeline https://youtu.be/3A6l60knEzI. Margaret Thatcher was born in the year 1925 and served as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. She studied Chemistry at Oxford University and worked for a brief period as research chemist. She later studied law and became a barrister before being elected to Parliament.

为什么玛格丽特·撒切尔 (Margaret Thatcher) 成为 80 年代最具争议的人物？ |铁娘子|时间线 https://youtu.be/3A6l60knEzI。玛格丽特·撒切尔 (Margaret Thatcher) 出生于 1925 年，1979 年至 1990 年担任英国首相。她在牛津大学学习化学，并曾短暂担任研究化学家。她后来学习法律并成为一名大律师，然后被选入议会。

Below is the transcript of a video on her, entitled “Our Maggie”. 面是一段关于她的视频的文字记录，名为“我们的玛吉”。

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader, a great Prime Minister, a great Britain, and a great conservative. She gave the conservative party intelligence and committed leadership. One of her famous quotes read as follows: “Where there is discord, may we bring harmony; where there is error, may we bring truth; where there is doubt, may we bring faith and where there is despair, may we bring hope.”

玛格丽特·撒切尔 (Margaret Thatcher) 是一位伟大的领袖、一位伟大的首相、一位伟大的英国人和一位伟大的保守派。她给了保守党情报和坚定的领导。她的名言之一是这样的：“哪里有不和，哪里就有和谐；哪里有错误，哪里就有真理；哪里有怀疑，哪里就有信心；哪里有绝望，哪里就有希望。”

She had some very simple, very heartfelt convictions. “You can’t spend what you haven’t earned. It’s not government that creates jobs, it’s businesses.” “Sound money, strong defence, stand up for your country.”

Those things informed her life.  They informed her politics, they informed what her government did and they changed Britain for the better.

She and Clement Attlee were the two great formative prime ministers, one set out to create a socialist country and she set out to unravel a socialist country.

她有一些非常简单、非常发自内心的信念。 “你不能花掉你没有赚到的钱。创造就业机会的不是政府，而是企业。” “稳健的资金，强大的防御，为你的国家挺身而出。”
这些事情影响了她的生活。他们告知她的政治，他们告知她的政府做了什么，他们让英国变得更好。她和克莱门特·艾德礼是两位伟大的形成性总理，一位着手创建社会主义国家，而她则着手瓦解社会主义国家。所做的一切都是为了将​​权力从官僚机构和政治家转移到人民身上。

Almost everything was done to transfer power from the bureaucracy and the politicians to the people.   

“I offer the certainty of liberty and the chance of property ownership. and more than just a chance, that people should be able to own their own homes is deep at the heart of conservative philosophy.”

She knew in a way that only a shopkeeper’s daughter could know.  The pride that people would get in owning their own home.  It was her policy of selling Council homes that allowed millions of people to become homeowners.   “We offer them a place that belongs to them, their own home in which to start life together and later to bring up their children.   She brought to us all the whole concept of a property owning, a share owning democracy and it is in the natural instinct in her view of every person that they want to do better for themselves.   They want to do better for their families.  “A man’s right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the status as servant and not as master  - these are the British inheritance.  They are the essence of a free economy.”

It’s very difficult unless you lived through the sixties and seventies to realise what came of this country. We were seen to be the sick man of Europe.

“我提供自由的确定性和财产所有权的机会。而且不仅仅是机会，人们应该能够拥有自己的房屋是保守哲学的核心。” 她知道的方式只有店主的女儿才能知道。人们会因为拥有自己的家而感到自豪。她出售议会房屋的政策使数百万人成为房主。 “我们为他们提供了一个属于他们的地方，他们自己的家，在那里开始共同生活，然后抚养他们的孩子。她给我们带来了拥有财产、拥有股份的民主的整个概念，它在在她看来，每个人都想为自己做得更好。他们想为家人做得更好，这是她的本能。“一个人有权随心所欲地工作，花他所赚的钱，拥有财产，拥有地位作为仆人而不是主人——这是英国的遗产。它们是自由经济的本质。” 除非你经历了六七十年代，否则很难意识到这个国家发生了什么。我们被视为欧洲的病夫。

Unfortunately it was true and that had to change.

“We were carrying out the largest program of de-nationalisation in our history.  Just a few years ago in Britain, privatisation was thought to be a pipe dream, now it is a reality and a popular one.” 

These industries she said must be in real effective public ownership.   In other words the people themselves must be the owners, not the state.  She unleashed an entrepreneurial revolution that empowered millions and millions of people to own their own home, to set up their own businesses, to own shares in companies.   This was a transformation in the way our economy operated. 

“We have been ruled by men who live by illusions, the illusion that you can spend money that you have not earned without eventually going bankrupt or falling into the hands of your creditors, the illusion that real jobs can be conjured into existence by government decree, like rabbits out of a hat, the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than by hard work and satisfying your customers, the illusion that you can have freedom and enterprise without believing in free enterprise.

“我们正在实施我们历史上最大的去国有化计划。就在几年前，在英国，私有化还被认为是一个白日梦，现在它已成为现实并且很受欢迎。”   她说这些行业必须是真正有效的公有制。换句话说，人民本身必须是所有者，而不是国家。她发动了一场创业革命，使数以百万计的人拥有自己的房屋、创办自己的企业、拥有公司股份。这是我们经济运作方式的转变。 “   我们一直被那些生活在幻想中的人统治，幻想你可以花钱，而不是最终破产或落入债权人手中，幻想可以通过政府法令创造真正的工作就像戴帽子的兔子一样，幻想除了努力工作和满足客户之外还有其他创造财富的方式，幻想你可以拥有自由和企业而不相信自由企业。

The new jobs - they come from people starting businesses and growing businesses, taking risks, seizing the opportunity. She understood that when she realised the importance of the need to encourage people to do that.

People would come up to her receptions and say I just want to thank you. You gave me the chance to set up my own business with the Enterprise Allowance scheme and Margaret always said to them - “No, I should be thanking you.  Without people like you Thatcherism would just be a theory.”

“Freedom is the birthright of every citizen.  To preserve and defend that freedom, to defend it from within and from without is the first duty of any Prime Minister.”  

Margaret Thatcher felt very strongly about freedom, about the liberty of people to go about their businesses without constraint. Margaret Thatcher always said that freedom was worth defending at home. It was also worth exporting aboard and that is why she and Ronald Reagan stood up to the Soviet Union. She wore that badge of the insult “the Iron Lady” and treat this as a great compliment. It was such a gift to her because it embodied who she really was.

新工作——他们来自创业和发展业务、承担风险、抓住机遇的人。当她意识到鼓励人们这样做的重要性时，她就明白了。 
人们会来参加她的招待会并说我只是想感谢你。你给了我通过企业津贴计划创办自己的企业的机会，玛格丽特总是对他们说——“不，我应该感谢你。没有像你这样的人，撒切尔主义只是一种理论。  
“自由是每个公民与生俱来的权利。维护和捍卫这种自由，从内部和外部捍卫它是任何总理的首要职责。”  玛格丽特·撒切尔 (Margaret Thatcher) 对自由、人们不受约束地开展业务的自由感到非常强烈。玛格丽特·撒切尔 (Margaret Thatcher) 总是说，自由在国内值得捍卫。它也值得出口，这就是她和罗纳德·里根 (Ronald Reagan) 站出来对抗苏联的原因。她戴着那枚侮辱“铁娘子”的徽章，并把这当成一种莫大的恭维。这对她来说是一份礼物，因为它体现了她的真实身份。 

“I stand before you tonight in my red star chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up and my fair hair gently waved - the iron lady of the Western world.” 

She was really the first post-war British prime minister who said Britain does have a strong role in the western world and we were going to assert it. Margaret Thatcher had a huge belief in her own country and the rights of the people to decide their own future. 

“We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimpose at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.”

Right through Margaret thatcher’s premiership you can see an absolutely lion-hearted love for her country, for Great Britain.

她真的是战后第一位说英国确实在西方世界发挥着重要作用的英国首相，我们将坚持这一点。玛格丽特·撒切尔 (Margaret Thatcher) 坚信自己的国家和人民有权决定自己的未来。
“我们还没有成功地收回英国的国家边界，只是看到它们在欧洲层面重新实施，一个欧洲超级国家从布鲁塞尔行使新的主导地位。”  在玛格丽特·撒切尔 (Margaret Thatcher) 担任首相期间，您可以看到对她的国家、对英国的绝对狮子般的爱。

“Our first duty to freedom is to defend our own.”  The Falklands conflict and the way in which she handled the conflicts with her steely determination to put Britain back on the map.  What Fauklands showed was that Britain could do it. When we had the will we found the way.

Those weeks of Falklands War were some of the most lonely of her life. Although you were supported by your cabinet and your colleagues, in the end only a Prime Minister can take that decision and all the lives of all those going down to the South Atlantic were laid at her feet.

“The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best.”  That was some iron lady.

Mrs. Thatcher was a conviction politician. She did not believe in just accepting the consensus.   “No, no, no!”  She showed that by effort, by belief, by hard work, you could change Britain and turn things around.  

It is a matter of continuing pride to me that it is the Conservative Party that had the first woman leader and the only party so far that has had a woman Prime Minister.

She was an optimists. She was the politician who said I refused to accept that Britain’s best days are behind us. Britain’s best days are ahead of us. It was her absolute determination and conviction that made the difference. Britain today is very much Thatcher’s Britain. She was a Titan of British politics, of world politics. She was a great conservative because she put conservative principles into action. She knew it was not enough to debate, to think, to talk. You need to act. That is what she did. She reshaped Britain in a more conservative model. She saved our country - that is her truth.

“我们对自由的首要责任是捍卫我们自己的自由。”福克兰群岛冲突以及她处理冲突的方式，她坚定地决心让英国重新回到地图上。 Fauklands 表明英国可以做到。当我们有了遗嘱时，我们找到了方法。  福克兰群岛战争的那几周是她一生中最孤独的几个星期。虽然你得到了你的内阁和你的同事的支持，但最终只有首相才能做出这个决定，所有下到南大西洋的人的生命都被放在了她的脚下。    “南大西洋的精神是英国最好的精神。”那是个铁娘子。     撒切尔夫人是一位坚定的政治家。她不相信只是接受共识。 “不不不！”她表明，通过努力、信念和努力，你可以改变英国，扭转局面。     保守党是第一位女性领导人，也是迄今为止唯一一位女性总理的政党，这让我一直感到自豪。 她是一个乐观主义者。她是那个说我拒绝接受英国最好的日子已经过去的政治家。英国最好的日子就在眼前。正是她的绝对决心和信念让一切变得不同。今天的英国在很大程度上是撒切尔的英国。她是英国政治和世界政治的巨人。她是一位伟大的保守主义者，因为她将保守的原则付诸行动。她知道仅仅辩论、思考和谈话是不够的。你需要行动。这就是她所做的。她以更保守的模式重塑了英国。她拯救了我们的国家——这是她的真理。