The Iron Lady R.I.P.

[Tiberius Onklevaart]

Wilson closed more pits than she did.

Yeah but shipyards, steelworks and timber mills among others were left alone.



I have no respect nor disrespect and have no opinion whether she's alive or dead and really don't think about it. For all it matters to me she was dead all along. The steely eyed determination, the botox face before botox was harnessed for cosmetic uses, the skirt suits and moulded hair.
Thatcher only came alive to me in spitting image.

She ruined a lot of people and destroyed many lives,  and many died. Thankfully I was shielded from it. Partly through age, partly through family. I was born in '79. I only felt part of it. Good and bad. I saw enough from others to see what went and still goes on  from others,  both then and later.

As a small aside, Scotland hasn't voted tory since the fifties. Since then they were lucky to have any candidates above the border. Joke as much you like about the shire and blah blah blah. But the fact is she was not represented in any way up here and she allowed it to be subject to unbelievable nonsense in spite of it. Was it because no one voted for her up here that she used the whole shire as a testbed for the poll tax? Maybe she just couldn't stand sweaty socks. Who knows?!
But the fact remains she was never voted in up here and she still managed to facilitate a massive rape of the people without any remorse or regret. When people get all high and mighty about disrespect, please remember she allowed an enormous amount of poverty and social disorder to breed due to her policies and actions that has never fully been recovered from. We didn't vote her in. We got lumped with it anyway.

Thems the breaks. And now in death they (we) continue to pay. I'm not saying dance on her grave, but I'm not gonna stop them having a (often justified) moan.