Thatcher: her crimes against the working class….

I remember my dad being on strike during the winter of discontent and it being the dying days of the sell-out Callaghan Labour government. Within a couple of months we had the advent of the Thatcherism. Again I remember my parents shocked and stunned faces when they realised the Tories had won. The memory of their expressions is forever etched in my mind.

And the memory of Thatcher on the steps of Downing Street quoting from St Francis of Assisi where the words became somewhat a distopian reality. She decimated the working class. She started to dismantle the welfare state with full throttle neo-liberalism. She caused untold misery, anger and a collective trauma on the psyche of the working class. She was a jingoistic racist and imperialist; from the Malvinas war, blood on her hands over the North of Ireland, backing vile right-wing terrorist organisations like the Contras, her support for apartheid South Africa, allowing America to use UK bases to bomb Libya in 1986….to name a few of her crimes against the international working class.

Her other crimes against the working class was smashing the trade unions….But at least the miners took her on and there was a glimmer of hope yet that was snatched away…..Though the Poll Tax was part of her downfall and the many drunken parties that happened simultaneously across the UK when Thatcher stepped down…’Stand Down Margaret’…Indeed!

So in reply to A.N. Wilson in today’s Mail ….

I am a proud Socialist…I loathed and still loathe Thatcher, loathed her ideology and her relentless attacks on the working class. She shaped my political consciousness that led me to Socialism.

Of course Wilson still swoons and Thatcher still the wet dream of the ruling class. And Mandelson may believe that we are all Thatcherites. Well, he can speak for himself and that statement betrays the labour movement.

So, A.N. Wilson, I will be dancing and drinking champagne when that woman dies. The first woman prime minister who betrayed her sex and defended her own class interests.

Tramp the dirt down, for her crimes against the working class…………..

These boots are made for walking…..

Ok, HarpyMarx does frivolous and takes a step out of the real depressing world to show off her new boots.

Like I said, it is frivolous but as someone who doesn’t own a pair of shoes (I don’t) just….boots I just felt very happy and pleased with my latest purchase.

And ok, wanted to show them off. Took a picture in sepia in honour of the style of boots….

Ok, frivolity over….back to the serious politics

John McDonnell suspended from the House of Commons

“It’s a disgrace to the democracy of this country.” (John McDonnell)

John McDonnell has been suspended from the House of Commons for 5 days. The reason being:

John McDonnell was sanctioned after he picked up the mace, the ornamental club which represents the royal authority of Parliament, in a breach of protocol. The Hayes and Harlington MP said the decision not to hold a vote on the runway was a “national disgrace”. Anyone manhandling the mace is considered in contempt of Parliament.

Well done John for taking a stand over the the planned new Heathrow runway. What was worse for the NL aparatchiks to see/hear, ‘manhandling the mace’ or John mentioning the word….’democracy’??!!

Again, well done John!