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…………..
Yes but it’s now Labour that is taking the welfare state to bits, the post office to bits, and any chance of my kids getting a fair job.
This week Labour said they were going to relax red tape, when asked in what area they did not say taxation, they said well Health and safety. People lives are ruined by dodge firms taking risks with peoples lives and this government relax health and safety.
We have ID cards a massive data base of information on phone calls emails, with more and more stupidity with another runway at Heathrow I do not mind so long as MP’s debate it and vote on it it’s called democracy something Labour has lost.