The day has arrived.
Margaret Thatcher was a hideous, loathsome Prime Minister who had no compassion for the poor, for the unemployed who she made redundant through de-industrialisation and saw the collapse of British manufacturing. My God, Britain was once the workshop of the world. She reduced that workshop to rubble.
You know why we have all these unregulated banks, and these fatcat bankers who gambled on the stock market, you know why the housing market bubble was unregulated (and we have a housing crisis now as money from Right-To-Buy never went towards rebuilding social housing) and you know why we have the biggest recession since October 1929 ? Because of Thatcher and her partner in crime Ronald Reagan, who was also a war criminal for what he did in Latin America.
The Poll Tax - oh not even you Maggie could get away with that - a duke or an earl would pay the same as someone on the minimum wage - the entire country was in revolt. Remember General Pinochet, the cruel Chilean dictator, that neo-fascist tyrant ? Thatcher was an ardent supporter of him.
All those celebrities who now are pouring out with their sickening tributes - you weren't around when London rioted in 1981, when Liverpool rioted, when Manchester and all those poor urban cities that Thatcher drove into destitution and hopeless. That prat Norman Tebbit said wickedly, and callously to the unemployed 'get on your bike'. Get on your bike to what ? There were NO JOBS.
The mines in South Wales and the North East, the steelworks of Sheffield, textile mills of Lancashire, the docks of Liverpool and the industries this country was built on - all destroyed.
Of course, she didn't understand that it was HER policies driving family after family to alcohol, to drugs, to mental breakdowns, to family separations. She assisted the disgusting coverup of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster which I'll come to and the smearjob of Orgreave. She was hand-in-hand with Rupert Murdoch, (remember Wapping ?), that megalomaniac, and of course The Sun newspaper - that revolting excuse of a newspaper - they were Thatcher's biggest supporters. She believed in the politics of 'ME AND NOW', whereas hard-working British people would rather believe in the politics of 'us and always' - she said there was NO such thing as society - that we should believe in the individual and not the collective community.
And finally, I feel sorry for those who have gone through agony every day, every waking morning because their loved one who attended a football match is no longer with us today, and I feel sorry for those parents, whose children were smeared in the press and were disgustingly lied about by Bernard Ingham, Thatcher's most ardent acolyte and THAT newspaper.
I feel sorry for those in Liverpool who experienced crippling mass unemployment - those families who suffered breakdowns, mental breakdowns, who were driven to drink and drugs because of her nasty brand of politics.
RIP Margaret Thatcher ? No - RIP Thatcherism. The ideology that keeps the poor, poorer.
