British people are not thrilled with Jeb Bush's idea to put Margaret Thatcher on the $10 bill
Somewhere near the end of Wednesday night's brutally long debate, most of the top-tier Republican presidential candidates managed to prove they are incapable of identifying prominent women in U.S. history. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush offered up a particularly perplexing suggestion for replacing Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill: former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
In addition to confusing U.S. voters, Bush's idea didn't sit too well with Thatcher's own nation, as Mashable notes. There was cynical political commentary.
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