Ding dong the witch is dead

[peterjca]

Love or hatred of Thatcher appears to follow the North/South divide pretty well....

I'm 19, I'm not going to pretend I understand the suffering many families went through at the hands of her policies. But I'll say this: what about those who would have suffered without them? Had the miners got their way, the economy would have collapsed overnight, and the country would have been deeper in the shit that it was. Thatcher was no saint, but neither were the Union leaders.

[quote author=Daily Telegraph]
Blythe said her dislike for the former prime minister came from being told she might never find work on leaving school in 1984.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics...named.html

Hell, my generation has been completely fucked over by the current shower of politicians. I, and many of my friends will leave University with nigh-on useless degrees, be unable to get jobs, and hardly able to support ourselves on the pittance they call the dole. All you who curse Thatcher's name, you're old enough to be past the misery that awaits me, and you should count your lucky stars for that!!

If I am to behave like this Romany Blythe character, the list is long for people for me to despise and hate. Blair, Brown, Cameron, Clegg, Merkel, Van Rompuy... the list goes on and on. But frankly, that takes up too much time, and I'll have to do the best with what I get anyway. You chaps did, you're able to look back on it now. I have it all to look forward to.


So yeah. Count your lucky stars, and spare a though for the poor bastards like me.
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Do you also wank at the alter of the bankers?