I must confess it is a little funny reading the comments from outraged, I say outraged Tories, all fiery and angry spluttering how appalled they are into cyberspace because of John McDonnell’s comment about assassinating Thatcher.
Some say that his comment was ‘despicable’ etc. etc. But the Tories don’t half protest too much. Does it really shock them that Thatcher is still loathed and despised?
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’…
I too am still angry at the legacy left by her party and maybe the Tories should realise the contempt many still hold for Thatcher.
I see that Cameron has had her back in No 10 today. It’s like she never went away. In reality she didn’t.
You have it right though, what is really shocking is the violence she unleashed on the working class, the poor, the sick, the unemployed.
Nothing was more nauseating and revealing as when Brown had Thatcher round at Number 10 and praised her reforms.
What Thatcher started Blair and Brown completed with alittle help and encouragement from Murdoch.
Wasn’t Mrs T familiar with the art, if a certain altercation in Gibralter is anything to go by?
@ Chris H
Gordon Brown also invited Thatcher back to No 10 when he became Prime Minister.
I well remember seeing Brown grasping Thatcher’s hand on the doorstep of Downing Street, grinning in his false lopsided way, embarrassingly eager to secure a “photo-opportunity” for himself insinuating that he, a supposedly Labour Prime Minister, was Thatcher’s spiritual and economic son – the veritable heir to her fiefdom and estates.
Dire, upsetting and diabolically awful.
A deed as black and stinking as the soul of Lady Thatcher herself.