Margaret Helen Roberts (born 1925 in Grantham in the English East Midlands) had a good scholastic career. After the local Grammar School, she went to Oxford University (with the aid of a grant from her County Council) and got a good degree in Chemistry. In 1950, she first stood as a candidate for election to Parliament, but failed, and in the following year she became the second wife of a divorced businessman heavily involved in arms dealing, Denis Thatcher. She then went on to read for the English Bar and thus became a Barrister in 1954.

She finally became a Member of Parliament in 1959, and following an internal plot within the Conservative Party she managed to oust the leader, Edward Heath, in 1975. In 1979, her Party had a resounding electoral victory and she remained Prime Minister through successive elections until in November 1990 she realised that she no longer had the support of her Party and resigned. Her period of rule was characterised by her ruthless manner of overruling the members of her Cabinet, and represented a change in the traditional system of government in the United Kingdom. Her style was described as being "presidential".

She also presided over the selling off and destruction of much of British industry, and an increasing reliance on what had become known as the "service industries". She drew enormous electoral benefit from the liberation of the Falkland Islands from the Argentinian Junta in 1982, which can (in retrospect) be considered her one great worthy act. One has to remember that when the British settlors first occupied this territory, it was unoccupied, and Argentina (whose forces had invaded the Islands) was only founded some years later. Internally, apart from her extreme monetarist policies, she acted to fragilise the family as a unit, and is famous for having stated that "society does not exist". Also, applying the principle of "pulling up the ladder behind one", she set the scene for the ending of student grants such as that from which she had herself benefitted.

On the other hand, she became very friendly with Ronald Wilson Reagan, when he was first elected as President of the U.S.A., probably because they were both extreme monetarists with equally extreme right-wing views. It was also clear that neither of them had the slightest understanding of the reality of economics. She kept quiet when he ordered the invasion of Grenada, and in 1986 allowed him to use British bases to breach international law when the forces of the U.S.A bombed Libya. Her obsequiousness towards Mr Reagan earned her the title of "Reagan's Poodle", and she was the first British Prime Minister to enter into what became known as "Poodledom".

When in 1990 she found that she had lost all serious support within her Party, she resigned, and after a brief battle, she was replaced as Prime Minister by John Major (born in London in 1943). After mediocre schoolling he had become a Bank Clerk, but he then decided to go into politics. He was first elected to Parliament in 1979, in the election in which his predecessor had come to power. As a politician who seems to have avoided making any serious enemies, he rose rapidly through the ranks of Members of Parliament and became Chancellor of the Exchequer before taking over as Prime Minister. His lack of any clear personal style led to his being known as the "grey man", and as such the but of many comics. He managed against all expectations to win a crucial election in 1992 but he had too thin a majority to do much, and he put off the next election as long as possible.

In 1997 his Party lost to the Labour Party which had a substantial majority in Parliament. It has to be pointed out that the (highly undemocratic) British electoral system gives huge advantages to the large parties and disenfranchises those who vote for the smaller parties, which can only have a serious impact when the government has a small majority over the largest opposition party.

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was born in Edinburgh, the Capital of Scotland, in 1953, and after spending his school days at the exclusive and expensive Fettes College, he emigrated southwards to become an undergraduate at Saint John's College,Oxford, following which he read for the English Bar and became an English Barrister.

He became interested in politics while at Oxford, and despite his wealthy origins, joined the Labour Party. He managed to be adopted as candidate in Sedgefield, a safe Labour seat in north-eastern England, and at the 1987 he became a Member of Parliament. He became a rising star in his Party, and after becoming Leader on the sudden death of John Smith, his fellow Scotsman, in 1994, he went on to win the General Election in 1997, thus becoming Prime Minister. As a comparatively young Prime Minister, he seemed to become extremely close to William Jefferson Clinton, then in his second term as President of the U.S.A. Almost inevitably, he became known a "Clinton's Poodle", and nobody knew how he would react when, following a most curious electoral saga, Mr George W. Bush was finally declared President-elect.

To the surprise of many, he seems almost immediately to have struck up a very odd, completely servile, relationship with the new President, and his title thus changed to become "Bush's Poodle", which he has justified ever since. If one examines carefully his statements and declarations, it becomes clear that he believes in a mythical "special relationship" between the U.S.A. and the United Kingdom, whereby he seems to expect to have some continuing powerful influence in Washington D.C. under whichever administration happens to be in power. This led him to join in his Master's illegal invasion of Iraq, against the wishes of the vast majority of the population, and his stated grounds for so doing have since been shown to have had no foundation whatsoever. Mr Bush has heaped the most lavish praise on him, and one must therefore suppose that this has made him a pathetically happy little Poodle. For anyone who is willing to look upon these two men, it is clear that neither appears to have any sense of conscience whe deciding on matters of policy, and, in any case, Mr Blair's over-riding policy can easily be summed up as doing precisely whatever the current administration in the U.S.A. might decide. This has been described in the often used remark that when the President tells him to jump, Mr Blair's only query is to ask "how high".

Lady Thatcher, as she now is, and Mr Blair well deserve their title of "Poodle", if one uses this as a pejorative term, meaning a totally subjugated being. One has, however, to admit that this seems unfair on these small dogs which can be very attractive - we had a delightful little poodle bitch for some years. Mr Major never managed to impinge as a person sufficiently to gain any such title, but it is interesting that he should (since the end of his Prime Ministership) have been appointed as Director for Europe of the sinister Carlyle Group, in which the Bush and bin Laden families have leading roles. The sickening recent press conference in the White House accorded by Mr Bush, with Mr Blair beside him, has shown that the latter has every intention of continuing his "Poodledom". It is a sad history for Britain, for the U.S.A. and for the whole world.