We pay for your benefits. 

”Time to ditch the EU” said Margaret Thatcher. The reason why she so desperately wanted to leave the EU was that she didn’t want to pay the fees of being a member of the European Union. Since she thought that the rest of the EU needed Britain more than what Britain needed them. She wanted Britain to ditch the Common Agricultural Policy, EU Defence and Foreign policy and take back the control of the trade issues. She had a grudge against mid Europe and blamed them for all the evil caused in Europe. As the left would say, her date has expired and we need some new political ideas. Thatcher got in over her head and made radical decision that most did not support, for example the war in the Falklands. The British people did not need a conservative leader.  What they needed was to move forward and create opportunities for all people living in the UK, not just the upper class people. The feeling between the EU and Margaret was mutual; they did not share the same opinions or view. As Martin Schulz, the president of the EU parliament, said in an interview on Euronews; Margaret Thatcher led Europe in the wrong direction.  We live in a society where cooperation is a must, and Great Britain will not survive without the help from the European Union. In the end we give them more than what Thatcher acknowledged.    

“The north does actually exist Margaret!” Ever since the first mine got closed, 100 000 people lost their jobs. The coal industry slowly died and with it died the hopes and dreams for a bright future. The people that got hit the hardest by this tragedy was the people who worked in the industry. Without jobs they had no money to support their families and also as they got poorer, the gap between rich and poor got bigger. The north became the poor part and Margaret with her inhuman actions towards the people in the north acted as if they did not exist. To her the people in the north were not important, since she had no support from that region when it came to elections. This escalated quickly and towards the end of Margaret’s rule it was as if the north was not even a part of her England. Thatcher is the one to blame for the big gap between the classes; but you cannot say that she started the division between the north and south. Because of the action of closing the mines, the gap between rich and poor grew bigger. Since she did not care about the north she made the south her top priority and left the north to crumble down with no help or support what so ever.