Reality Check From The UK: Now She's Dead, The Inquest Must Begin On Thatcher's Life & Influence

[Turborama]

Excellent reality check from The Mirror...

If anyone is inclined to remind me one should not speak ill of the dead, let me remind them she had nothing good to say about us while she was alive

By Paul Routledge

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Now that she’s gone, it’s fashionable to say that “whatever you think of Maggie, at least you have to admire her for sticking to her guns”.

I repudiate this modish claptrap. Look where she pointed those guns – at those who couldn’t defend themselves, their jobs and their way of life.

The pitmen, the steel workers, the rail employees, the hundreds of thousands of employees in state sector business thrown on the scrapheap in the name of privatised profits.

Businesses now – like water and electricity – largely in the hands of foreign owners ripping off the British consumer.

I lived through the Thatcher years as a London-based journalist for The Times and The Observer, when I reported on all the major industrial, political and social upheavals of her rule.

I do not look back on those times through the rose-tinted spectacles of her admirers. I remember instead the young lads throwing themselves off the Tyne bridges in Newcastle because they had no work.

I remember instead the despair in the inner cities that triggered riots, the hopelessness of the industrial communities devastated by her policies, and the social alienation caused by her “me first” selfish individualism.

Much more here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-dead---now-1818150

[truebrit71]

1. Brilliant article!

[Turborama]

3. This quote describes perfectly how heartless she was...

Any man over 25 who travelled by bus was a failure, she once remarked, dismissing at a stroke working people who have to use her privatised public transport today.

And Cameron/Osborne/Duncan Smith/May et al are trying their damndest to out-nasty her.

[Spartacus Maximus XL]

2. Ding dong, the witch is dead ...

She and Reagan are now where they belong, a-moulderin' in the ground ...