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I’m no supporter of Margaret Thatcher or her ideology or her methods.
The reforms she wrought that were beneficial were done in a way that was deliberately divisive and harmful. The reforms she wrought that were harmful she did gleefully, reckless of the lack of national unity. I refuse to support an ideology that is founded on increasing inequality.
I find I can still remember all the words to “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Out! Out! Out!”
The death of an old, rich woman in an expensive hotel at the age of 87 long after she has done what she wanted to do with and to our country, long after she had won three General Elections mainly as a result of the Left being too pig-headedly stupid and arrogant to do a power sharing deal between themselves, long after she ceased to be even a figurehead for her own party, being publically mourned by the second Conservative Prime Minister since she left office is nothing to celebrate.
It’s a victory lap.
For her.
The reforms she wrought that were beneficial were done in a way that was deliberately divisive and harmful. The reforms she wrought that were harmful she did gleefully, reckless of the lack of national unity. I refuse to support an ideology that is founded on increasing inequality.
I find I can still remember all the words to “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Out! Out! Out!”
The death of an old, rich woman in an expensive hotel at the age of 87 long after she has done what she wanted to do with and to our country, long after she had won three General Elections mainly as a result of the Left being too pig-headedly stupid and arrogant to do a power sharing deal between themselves, long after she ceased to be even a figurehead for her own party, being publically mourned by the second Conservative Prime Minister since she left office is nothing to celebrate.
It’s a victory lap.
For her.
