Morrissey: ‘Thatcher Was a Terror Without an Atom of Humanity’
Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others.
Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the ivory trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own cabinet booted her out. She gave the order to blow up The Belgrano even though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone—and was sailing AWAY from the islands! When the young Argentinean boys aboard The Belgrano had suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs-up sign for the British press.
Iron? No. Barbaric? Yes. She hated feminists even though it was largely due to the progression of the women's movement that the British people allowed themselves to accept that a prime minister could actually be female. But because of Thatcher, there will never again be another woman in power in British politics, and rather than opening that particular door for other women, she closed it.
Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death. As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity.
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I am a Scot myself, and lots of us went lotsa places, but probably the Scots-Irish even more so (that's what you call descendants of people who moved from Scotland to Ireland (mostly Northern Ireland), stayed for some generations and later moved on). Mostly they went to North America and the British Commonwealth. My family went from Scotland to Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia in the Canadian Maritimes and later to Boston...(the old cemeteries on PEI were kinda trippy: all MacLeod, MacDonald, MacPhee, MacKenzie etc etc etc).
So, Hi, Coz! 
My direct ancestors (and a lot of their cousins apparently) emigrated to the Maritimes in the 1840s, and my grandparents went to Boston in between 1895 and 1910.
Pronounced their name McLeod instead of MacLeod ("mic" instead of "mac"
because there were far more Irish around than Scots...those danged English have a lot to answer for, driving a wedge between the Scots and the Irish!
"She gave the order to blow up The Belgrano even though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone—and was sailing AWAY from the islands! When the young Argentinean boys aboard The Belgrano had suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs-up sign for the British press."
Now Argentina has two reasons to celebrate, the election of the Pope and the death of dear old Maggie.
Screw Thatcher and her friend Ronnie.
Though I don't think Thatcher did anything any other British PM wouldn't have done at the time. All 5 voting members of the UN security council were against the colonial thrust of the Argentinian military junta.
... I thought I was the only one that danced and spit on graves. Hey, and I am of Irish decent too. Something tells me that dancing and spitting on graves might be an Irish trait. No? Welcome to DU!
Know, however, that Funky has informed me I'm not Irish enough to pass her Brit litmus test. So be careful of the company you keep. 
