Not, it should be noted, to the fact of holding a debate on Thatcherism.
She was genuinely puzzled that Thatcherism did not find more fertile ground north of the border.
That all went, or seemed to go, about the time that Thatcherism came in.
All the same sorry to spoil the party might this also have been the week when Thatcherism died?
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So was it, as it were, tourism and not Thatcherism that Mr Hague wanted to renounce?
Thatcherism was about privatising nationalised industries and curbing the unions not about short-changing patients and pupils.
And many voters have concluded that Thatcherism was motivated by ideology, not common sense.
For many in the Labour Party this is proof positive that Thatcherism was an unmitigated disaster.
Council house sales, financial deregulation, privatisation and recapturing the Falklands: They epitomise what we now call Thatcherism.
He called for workers' control of industry, backed the miners' strike and both mocked and attacked Thatcherism.
But even during the heyday of Thatcherism, practical politics made it impossible for the government to attempt this.
So is that how one should think of Mr Lilley's New Toryism not so much Thatcherism denied as Thatcherism repackaged?
ROBOT, in some ways an early exercise in Thatcherism, which Mr Hennessy describes as the economic equivalent of Suez.
And, again as with Thatcherism, there is a hint of a big idea.
Mr Green says that the success of Thatcherism was bought at a price.
But it has come a long way since the 1980s when it, and Thatcherism, let half its manufacturing base die.
But "to this day, 'Thatcherism' is used all over the world to describe a brisk, unsentimental, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps approach, " he writes.
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So perhaps it is true, as the party's present leaders now insist, that no offence against Thatcherism was ever intended.
"It is not about about the demise of an old lady, it is about the end of Thatcherism hopefully, " she said.
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They feared Thatcherism was too big a shock to the British system and trusted in the wisdom of Westminster and Whitehall.
If Mr Hague wants to soften Thatcherism he will have to pick a proper fight with Baroness Thatcher and win it.
Thatcherism will always remain, and the world is better for it.
On Europe, on environmental policy, on international aid and debt relief, on attempts to regulate international financial markets, the Government is reversing the legacy of Thatcherism.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said although it was fair to "shun the tenets of Thatcherism" it was possible to still respect Lady Thatcher's personal achievements.
While Mr Blair does not want to continue Thatcherism's crusade against the state, nor does he seek to reverse it (which means it is likely to grow).
You can indeed scan the text of Mr Lilley's speech, and then of Mr Hague's, and find no direct contradiction between their ideas and Thatcherism's ideological inheritance.
What, for example, would Thatcherism have been without the forcefulness of the woman who relished upsetting the crockery in the grand dining room of her Tory rivals?
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But I think that there is a growing appetite out there, for what I might describe, or what has been described as, Thatcherism with a social conscience.
Thatcherism was not a fully worked out theory when Mrs Thatcher entered office in 1979 (and critics of the Third Way may want to bear that in mind).
It grew out of the Institute of Economic Affairs, the godfather of Thatcherism, responsible for thinking up many of the free-market policies that transformed Britain in the 1980s.
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