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Thatcher Continues To Divide.
Disgraceful that this sum of money should be spent on unveiling her statue in the midst of a pandemic and economic crisis.
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from Naomi post
From the BBC.
//The Conservative-led authority agreed to fund the event but "fully expected" the money to be recouped in donations.//
So this is not being paid for from the public purse.
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From the BBC.
//The Conservative-led authority agreed to fund the event but "fully expected" the money to be recouped in donations.//
So this is not being paid for from the public purse.
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I'd be happy to contribute. She not only defeated the odious Scargill, the ghastly dictatorship in Argentina and played a critical role in ending the Cold War. The British people put their faith in her at three general elections so is anyone really saying that the British electors were in some way stupid. And she was the first female PM. That is, alone, worthy of respect.
"Thatcher continues to divide"...as has every PM.
For some she's anathema, for me she was, without a single shadow of a doubt, easily the best PM in my lifetime.
In the mid to late 70s, the UK was utterly fubarred due to Labour Government and the stranglehold of militant unions and, like it or not, she turned the country around. She just did.
People always whine about what she did to the miners, whilst very conveniently forgetting that Labour closed more pits than she did, and that it is the economy of the madhouse to flog a dead horse when it was costing more to mine coal than it could be sold for.
I couldn't really give a toss whether there is or isn't a statue in Grantham, but I can all but guarantee there'll be ongoing mindless vandalism of it, most likely by mouthbreathers who weren't even born when she left office.
For some she's anathema, for me she was, without a single shadow of a doubt, easily the best PM in my lifetime.
In the mid to late 70s, the UK was utterly fubarred due to Labour Government and the stranglehold of militant unions and, like it or not, she turned the country around. She just did.
People always whine about what she did to the miners, whilst very conveniently forgetting that Labour closed more pits than she did, and that it is the economy of the madhouse to flog a dead horse when it was costing more to mine coal than it could be sold for.
I couldn't really give a toss whether there is or isn't a statue in Grantham, but I can all but guarantee there'll be ongoing mindless vandalism of it, most likely by mouthbreathers who weren't even born when she left office.
One thinks (at least, I do) of such classics as "Miss Maggie" by Renaud, and "Tramp the Dirt Down" by Elvis Costello (in fairness the latter only as a track on an album).
At the time, such satire (bitter in the case of Costello, more lighthearted in the former)
"Et quand viendra l'heure dernière ....
Moi je me changerai en chien
Si je peux rester sur terre
Et comme réverbère quotidien
Je m'offrirai Madame Thatcher"
was probably fair game, when she was at the height of her powers.
The witch thing, by 2013, seemed in very poor taste.
At the time, such satire (bitter in the case of Costello, more lighthearted in the former)
"Et quand viendra l'heure dernière ....
Moi je me changerai en chien
Si je peux rester sur terre
Et comme réverbère quotidien
Je m'offrirai Madame Thatcher"
was probably fair game, when she was at the height of her powers.
The witch thing, by 2013, seemed in very poor taste.
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