The horror that was Thatcher as depicted by Steve Bell.
‘You should not speak ill of the dead’ is what every good boy is taught but today I will make an exception.
Tributes will be made and a funeral pageant will follow but we should not forget that Margaret Thatcher was one of the most hateful politicians of modern times.
Her destructive, divisive policies left a mark on Britain that is still there now – praising greed and selfishness with contempt rather than compassion for the weak in society.
“Don’t be too nasty”, said my wife when she knew I was writing this post.
Ok – I’ll just let the following two quotes and a song from 1989 speak for themselves.
“Whatever side of the political debate you stand on, no one can deny that as prime minister she left a unique and lasting imprint on the country she served” – Nick Cleggg, on hearing of the Iron Lady”s demise.
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever” – George Orwell’s prophetic words from 1984
The Iron Lady is a film about one of the most significant (and hated) political figures of the 20th century but is practically devoid on any political content. It tells you more about the state of dementia than it does about the state of Britain in the 1990s.
