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Thatcher
is dead and I say good riddance. It is not surprising that the Tory
establishment has rushed to extoll her virtues. Yes she was strong
willed ( didn't listen to any one else ) and she was an individual (
not a team player). She professed to care about these lands but
wanted a nice little Daily Mail lead culture ( it was all about those
who can and have) and she didn't give a toss for the common people.
She took school milk off the kids and she tried to smash the trade
unions. I remember some of the union excesses but the treatment of
the miners was a disgrace and will always be regarded as an atrocity
by reasonable people.
With the
aid of the Met in London and some of them could justifiably be
ascribed the term pigs, she attacked the miners and their
communities because they were on the opposite side of the political
fence.
Later
when struggling to maintain her personal power position she decided
to sink the Argentinian Belgrano. The ship was running away from the
Malvinas at full steam but she knew that this would make all out war
unavoidable. She won but did we? Her old friend Pinochet, who apparently helped out with intelligence about the Argentinian situation, was a nice piece of work wasn't he? She did seem to have a soft spot for the odd fascist and fascist principle.
Our
troops killed many very young Argentinians in some of the worst hand
to hand fighting seen since the first world war. Our troops paid
dearly for that little rock in the South Antarctic seas. Was it worth
it? Yes if you are a Thatcherite style imperialist but there seems no doubt
that if that little rock we call The Falklands has no material value
to us in the future we will hand it over to the highest bidder. In
other words it was kept under the Jack because of it's material worth rather than some high ethical foundation around sovereignty. It is a staging post for oil exploration and yet more eco
disaster down there and, in theory, has some strategic value. If the
islanders are still grateful perhaps it is time to begin to consider the possibility that they may have been used by Thatcher and that their security may be time limited.
Some of you might remember
a post I wrote, some time ago, about the Life boat principle. It
requires one to make an imaginary list of the people you think most
acceptable to be part of your survival crew. I would have let her in
my boat so that we would be guaranteed some thing to eat. How ever
unpalatable that idea might seem it seems a far more viable option
than voting for her.
She had
a son and a daughter who must be among the least impressive progeny
in the history of tory politics. Her old man Dennis was a complete
arse who played with and invested with some of the worst regimes in
the world. Maggie's claim to the moral high ground did not extend to
Dennis and they both benefitted massively from income derived from
the exploitation and repression of people far from these shores. I
won't bore you with the details. It is all out there on the net.
If you
ever voted for her then shame on you. I feel shame enough for voting
for Liar Blair so if you voted for Hag Thatcher you should drag out the sack cloth and ashes on
Wednesday and dress for the occasion. I
will join the protest over the money being spent on her over blown
funeral rituals. I say just hand her over to the ex miners of South
Yorkshire to chuck on the pyre. By way of memorial I
suggest vinyl images of her could be stuck on every urinal in the
land.
Thatcher said there is no such thing as society while Cameron speaks of the Big society. Thatcher spawned a generation containing a large group of self serving individuals who still put their own interests above all else. With out them there could be not be the current Condem pogram on the disabled and vulnerable.
DING
DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD.
peace