Meryl Streep has to be one of my all time favourite actresses. How thrilled was I to hear, via The Australian, that she may play the role of Maggie Thatcher in a movie about the lead up to the Falklands War.

Women who stand their ground and defy convention are really inspirational. Maggie Thatcher would have to rate as one of those great women.

The English always produce fine, strong female leaders. The women in English history always outshine the men.

Elizabeth the First refused to marry and wed her nation instead. Another contemporary redhead, who is also a Brit but now runs our nation, comes to mind, although Liz the First believed in God.

Unlike other British women Julia Gillard will go down in history as a Prime Minister just like every other plodder. She is poll driven, calm and measured.

When the Socialist Left of the Labor Party found their first ever factional hack in control of the Prime Ministership, it would have been reasonable for them to have expected Julia to deliver on core socialist beliefs. Why else would one be a member of the Socialist Left if not for a belief in implementing socialist ideology?

No one was surprised when the first thing Gillard did was give the miners a big discount off their tax and the second thing was move further to the right then John Howard on the asylum seeker issue. Good on her I say from the right, but oh how her comrades would have choked on their berries and San Pellegrino.

Julia Gillard is a modern Prime Minister. She plods, watching polls and shifts shapes according to where focus groups say ‘jump’.

The Courier Mail said today that Julia has character, but her problem comes when she is scripted (apparently Rudd was the other way). She doesn’t allow her true character to shine, and that’s what people want to see.

Scripting is the problem with modern politics. There is no conviction and no sticking your ground. We can never understand what most modern politicians think or believe, because many modern politicians are too worried about what we want to hear and shape their thoughts accordingly.

Maggie Thatcher stuck her ground. My all time favourite quote, “the Lady is not for turning” sums Maggie’s attitude up 100%.

Maggie’s era may be over for some of us. She swept England clean of socialism, reformed her country and modernised its economy. She asserted national independence and won a war in 74 days.

Even in the face of losing her Prime Ministership, Maggie maintained that the United Kingdom must rule its own territory and never cede sovereignty to the European Union. That is gumption, that is leadership, and that is a woman we can be inspired by.

I will never watch the movie they eventually make about Gillard. I am not inspired by her. She ‘fixes issues’ through back flips, just like her predecessor.

Women can be forgiven for being tough. When women are tough or hardnosed they are excused as being passionate. When men are tough, they are viewed as arrogant. That’s why men don’t like women succeeding in politics; women will always be able to outshine their male counterparts.

Britons forgave Maggie and they loved her for being true to herself.
However, Gillard is a very modern model of a very modern Prime Minister. Yuk. She stands for nothing, believes in nothing and can’t even use her charm to convince us that we should stick with her while she implements unpopular policy.

Let me make this prediction. If Australians elect Julia Gillard, by the end of her first term I will bet Ms Gillard may even believe in God. Why? Because the polls told her she had to.