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No, there will not be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

The male population is too prejudiced. This was the

response given in a 1970 interview with the Finchie Press by then member of parliament, Margaret Thatcher.

Less than a decade later, Thatcher would go on to prove her own prediction wrong, ascending,

to become the UK's first female prime minister in 1979.

Unfortunately, this glass ceiling-shattering milestone is tainted by the fact that Thatcher

was a truly massive piece of shit. Much like her American presidential contemporary,

the racist bad actor Ronald Reagan, Thatcher engineered the wholesale destruction of her country's

public sector, making the 1980s the destruction of our country's public sector,

making the 1980s the decade of emiserating the working poor and transferring wealth to

upper-class twits. Though unlike us, Yanks, at least the Brits got to keep their public health care.

But while Thatcher was busy laying waste to her nation's post-war gains in favor of a morally bankrupt ideology

of greed, University College London friends Julian Metcalf and Sinclair Beecham collaborated on a

quick-service food and coffee shop named after a French term meaning ready to eat, a playoff

the existing phrase, Ready to Wear.

Opening in 1983 in the London neighborhood of Westminster, after enduring a rocky first year,

the chain quickly became entrenched as an institution in the big smoke and then threw out

the British Isles.

And in 2000, in a food-oriented retread of its proud tradition of colonization, the chain established its first

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