Seems that she was responsible for yet another evil, the beginning of the political career of The Lought. However, I do have to admit that she was also the main reason that I became politically active, if it weren't for Thatcher, I'd have been able to get a job after leaving school instead of lining the pockets of opportunist Thatcherite yuppies, exploiting school leavers under the YTS for a fiver a week.
This claim that she supported the "little man or woman", is again a complete bunch of arse. What she really did was to encourage people to get balls deep in debt in order to live the self employed dream, and when it all went wonderbra, hey presto instant homeless family, and a nice cheap repossessed property for her rich mates to snap up for a fraction of it's value, using their profits from the ex public utilities that they bought for a song when she privatised them. The only people that truly succeeded under Thatcher were the people who were already rolling in it. Seems like little has changed, and the idiots in charge now are just as oblivious to the needs of the people and only believe that people are living a higher standard of life than they were before Thatcher, as the people at the bottom of the pile are ignored and treated like shit, in order to uphold their belief that these people are only poor because they are lazy or evil or both. If the Tories pulled their heads out of their (or each others) arses and interacted with real people rather than the tiny percentage of society that they choose to accept as existing they may well learn that they are talking complete crap, but that's never going to happen, Loughton himself ignores anyone who isn't middle classed, rich or willing to be exploited for his own self-promotion. You can see that he did indeed learn a lot from Thatcher, like short term personal financial gain at all costs, blind self promotion, destruction of communities for profit, and screwing over anyone who dares to attempt to undermine his agenda, using as many underhanded and immoral tricks as possible.
Funny how he didn't mention anything about Thatcher's close personal friendship with Jimmy Savile, and the heavily redacted correspondence between them that has been released, you'd think that as someone who claims to be strongly against protecting child abusers that he'd have a problem with this, but I guess that he hasn't distanced himself from the recent Diocese of Chichester arrests either, I guess that his father (employee of the DoC, under the Bishop of Lewes) has the same untouchable status as Thatcher. I guess that he assumes that these connections, like all those horrible poor people, will go away if he ignores them long enough.
I have to say that I have really enjoyed the social media freedom regarding the Thatcher "farm purchase" today, and the suggestions that it is completely unacceptable to say bad things about dead people. I remember when Pinochet died, there was no such restriction, and it was totally acceptable to say what a murderous bastard he was, maybe we should have been vilified for saying such hurtful things when he became an ex-dictator, after all, he did have friends and supporters who would have been upset by such comments, friends and supporters like Thatcher herself.
That said, there was one post that disturbed even me, this one:
Although I wasn't actually disturbed enough to not enjoy a good chuckle at it.
At least Satan won't be eating alone tonight.
K
