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have been working on historic Thatcher speeches and so forth. We've been adding them to the template in the Premiership section but it's starting to look a bit crowded. I had a play around and think it looks better if this is split by her terms in office. I've shown an example below (note I've set
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Margaret Thatcher was many things, but the main thing she was was a politician, the first female prime minister of the UK. I've twice removed a section from this template which seemed to be an indiscriminate listing of films where she was portrayed. This is not appropriate. It might be ok to decide a
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adaptation, the first in the trilogy, also be included as it starts with a photograph of Thatcher and Urquhart commenting on her premiership coming to an end and going to elect her successor (and ironically this had greater significance than the production team could have known as a few days after
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I have started a section for some articles that are of relevance to the template, but would not easily fit in any of its existing sections. I am not sure this is an ideal approach, so if anyone can think of a better way of handling this, then I am happy to discuss further.
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have cut off with series 3 in 1991 as she did not appear after this (even her series 3 appearances, not portrayed by Nallon, are very fleeting). I think they are important enough to be included, but am happy to discuss further.
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I have also added 2020 to the Spitting Image dates as Nallon returned as Thatcher's spirit possessing the current Prime Minister in its Halloween episode and her portrait (based on her 1980s puppet) features prominently in it.
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being about to break her "record" as longest serving Prime Minister. The novel by Dobbs includes the statue as a plot point, but not the funeral. However is this enough for it to be included? If so should the 1990
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and continued to appear in the series thereafter. Her puppet was one of the best known and arguably influenced other depictions of her and various Thatcher sketches became well known in popular cultrue. In
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to the end of the Member of Parliament section, as it as she effectively led the vote that brought down the Callaghan government and paved the way for the 1979 general election that brought her to power.
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to this section. Although both were comedies, they represent important satirical depictions of Margaret Thatcher. During her premiership she was one of the most featured people in
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article, but Margaret Thatcher does not appear, rather it opens with her funeral (which caused some controversy at the time given she was still very much alive and led to
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episode 1 was broadcast Mrs Thatcher did resign as Prime Minister - giving it added cultural significance). I would appreciate others' views on this.
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somewhat disowning the production), and later includes a scene with a statue of her being unveiled. There is a also a plot point about
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small number of truly significant depictions and put them in here. It must not be allowed to dominate the template. Make sense? --
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I am not acting as an admin in this matter. Do you have anything substantive to add to the discussion? --
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portrayal of her as more masculine than many of her Party. For dates I have gone with the entire run of
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on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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Twice removed? Within 11 hours? I thought admins were meant to discourage edit wars. I guess
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this to auto-expand for this purpose). Are there any objections to making this change? -
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should be included in the "Cultural depictions" section of the template. It is in the
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as the puppet appeared in the first and last episodes of the original run, but for
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Steve Nallon appeared in a few episodes as Mrs Thatcher, and continued his
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1979 vote of no confidence in the Callaghan ministry
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