“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and would achieve nothing.” Margaret Thatcher.
Margaret Thatcher Hilda was truly a woman who entailed these words and their interpretation to the true extent of their essence. Some considered or viewed her as an overbearing and imposing old individual, while some found her to be tremendously forceful, dedicated and confident.
There has been no other prime minister in the history of Britain who has been adored and detested simultaneously in such a measure, but that is what Margaret Thatcher was in reality. If you are simply judging her on the grounds of her political and economic performance, then it would be a great injustice indeed. It would mean that one is overlooking the great fervor, passion, adoration that she had for her country. Besides that, she was also incredibly dedicated and committed towards the efforts of rebuilding, strengthening and improving the structure and functional efficiency of her country. Perhaps this was one of the many perks that peeved and put off her many cynics and critics.
Our country and her leaders can learn much by taking a leaf out of Mrs. Thatcher’s book. The following are mentioned some lessons that our government can integrate into their own policies:
1) Never Shirk from Making Decisions that are deemed Detested:
Margaret Thatcher never avoided the endeavor of executing decisions that others deemed unpopular and hated. She did what was necessary for the good of the people, regardless of how her decisions were frowned upon by critics and skeptics. From complacent and sluggishly lazy applications of bureaucracy or shutting down the excessive authority that unions sported, Margaret Thatcher stood firm and steadfast in her decisions despite the onslaught of negative views, opinions and skepticism. By the time she was ousted from the office, she had brought Britain out of a proximate collapse of the economic sort to a stage of the prosperous market economy.
Many among our leaders could have made such decisions that would have displeased us in the short run or initially. However, they would have been beneficial in the long run, but these politicians didn’t so as their love of authority and power hold them back from doing so.
2) More Authority of the People and Less Emphasis on the Government:
In Margaret Thatcher’s time, she laid more emphasis on the basic needs and amenities of life in regards to her people by lowering the scope of civil services. She also made the citizens shareholders in policies and also established strict and clear cut objectives for government agencies to accomplish within a given and specified time frame.
Here in our Government, there is no regulative check or balance of the funds being utilized for public services and the number of cabinet members and ministers is escalated without bars.
3) Abandon Our National Illusions and Misconceptions;
Instead of clinging to the scintillating and glorious memories of a long dwindled empire, Margaret Thatcher introduced impressive and efficiently effective new reforms that swept Britain into the new and improved era of today, far from the sorrow and shambles induced state that it was initially.
Here in Pakistan, we consider the rest of the world to harbor adversarial and detrimental interests toward Pakistan. We see the world as a conniving serpent, intent on destroying our country and this delusion has severely obstructed and hampered the country’s progress and evolution. If Pakistan is to succeed, then it is of absolute necessity that such delusions be eliminated from the context altogether and entirely.
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