To quote my dad: 'It's a shame she didn't go out screaming in pain, hopefully now she is burning in Hades'.
Yesterday in the house of commons 150 Labour MPs snubbed the Commons tribute, while those Labour MPs who did go slammed her.
She showed a brutal contempt for the unemployed, tried to bring the NHS to its knees, promoted greed and fueled homelessness.
It’s said that Thatcher was a tax-cutter. She wasn't. The overall tax burden (all taxes as a percentage of GDP) rose from 39 percent in 1979 to 43 percent in 1989. It’s true that Thatcher cut taxes massively for the rich – the top rate of tax was 83 percent when Thatcher came to power, and it was 40 percent when she left. But VAT, which hits the poor harder than the rich, was just 8 percent before Thatcher, and was put up to 15 percent as soon as she gained power.
It’s said that Thatcher made the British people richer. She didn't. In 1979 the poorest fifth of the population accounted for around 10 percent of after-tax income. By 1989 their share had fallen to 7 percent. Over the same period, the amount of income taken by the richest fifth rose from 37 percent to 43 percent. The rich got richer; the poor got poorer.
It’s said that Thatcher restructured the economy and made British capitalism competitive. SHE DIDN'T. Between 1980 and 1983, capacity in British industry fell by 24 percent. Unemployment shot up, eventually topping 3 million. Thatcher effectively shut down British manufacturing, much of it forever. In its place, she turned to the banks and the City, making their wildest dreams come true
It’s said that Thatcher’s greatest free market legacy is privatisation. It isn’t. Thatcher’s privatisations did not create competitive free markets. Instead, the government went for as much money as it could get by selling off public assets in big, monopolistic lumps. The cash came in handy for the chancellor, Nigel Lawson, who used it to claim he had balanced the budget in 1988. But the legacy is one of parasitic cartels, like in the energy sector, where a few big companies are free to bleed customers dry.
It’s said that Thatcher restored law and order. She didn’t. Crime increased by a staggering 79 percent under Thatcher. There were riots in Brixton and Toxteth at the start of her reign, and riots and civil disobedience against the poll tax at the end of it.
She once claimed 'there was no such thing as society'. She branded Nelson Mandela a terrorist.
Thatcher was the most divisive Prime Minister in modern history. In addition she literally rejected society and glorified personal greed and selfishness. There is nothing at all to celebrate besides the fact she is gone.
Glenda Jackson said in the Commons tribute last week "She inflicted the most heinous, social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country"
Veteran Labour MP David Winnick also hit out at the "immense pain and suffering" caused by Thatcherism.
He said unemployment soared, condemning men and women who had worked all their lives to never work again. "In 1979, 14% of children lived in relative poverty," he said. "In 1990/91, it was 31% living in such poverty.
Hillsborough
Liverpool Football Club and Nottingham Forrest Football Club faced each other on 15th April 1989 in a FA Cup semi-final match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield.
Liverpool fans were allocated the Leppings Lane stand within the stadium which was reached by a limited number if turnstiles. Roadworks and traffic on the M62 motorway for Liverpool fans coming over from Liverpool caused fans to build up outside the grounds and once they got to the ground, entry was slow due to the few very old turnstiles available to to the Liverpool fans. In an attempt to ease pressure outside the ground, Chief Superintendent Duckenfield ordered an exit gate to be opened. The opened exit gate led to a tunnel marked 'standing' which led directly to the two already overcrowded enclosures. In previous years the tunnel had been closed off by police when the two central pens were full, however on this occasion the tunnel was unmanned.
The continuing influx of supporters into this tunnel caused crushing and some fans climbed over side fences or were lifted by fellow supporters onto the stand above to escape the crush. Moments after kick-off, a crush barrier broke and fans began to fall on top of each other. The game was stopped after six minutes.
96 football fans lost their lives attempting to watch a game they loved. Of the fatalities, 79 were aged 30 or younger. Two sisters, three pairs of brothers and a father and son were among those who died, as were two men about to become fathers for the first time.
My dad was at this game. Fortunately for me he wasn't in the Leppings Lane stand. It so easily could have been my father who was one of the 96.
It was a terrible tragedy which could have been avoided if the police had done their jobs correctly. 44 ambulances arrived, but police prevented all but one of them from entering the stadium.
What was to follow this awful tragedy was accusations that the behavior of Liverpool fans contributed to the disaster centered around consumption of alcohol before the game and attempts to enter the ground without a ticket added to the pain for these families and to the people of Liverpool.
The reports from the police were covered up for almost 24 years due to Margret Thatcher and her government. The families of the victims had no justice down to this woman. No she wasn't there at the time, she wasn't one of the incompetent police that day, but she denied families closure, justice and caused more heartache.
Liverpool fans were allocated the Leppings Lane stand within the stadium which was reached by a limited number if turnstiles. Roadworks and traffic on the M62 motorway for Liverpool fans coming over from Liverpool caused fans to build up outside the grounds and once they got to the ground, entry was slow due to the few very old turnstiles available to to the Liverpool fans. In an attempt to ease pressure outside the ground, Chief Superintendent Duckenfield ordered an exit gate to be opened. The opened exit gate led to a tunnel marked 'standing' which led directly to the two already overcrowded enclosures. In previous years the tunnel had been closed off by police when the two central pens were full, however on this occasion the tunnel was unmanned.
The continuing influx of supporters into this tunnel caused crushing and some fans climbed over side fences or were lifted by fellow supporters onto the stand above to escape the crush. Moments after kick-off, a crush barrier broke and fans began to fall on top of each other. The game was stopped after six minutes.
96 football fans lost their lives attempting to watch a game they loved. Of the fatalities, 79 were aged 30 or younger. Two sisters, three pairs of brothers and a father and son were among those who died, as were two men about to become fathers for the first time.
My dad was at this game. Fortunately for me he wasn't in the Leppings Lane stand. It so easily could have been my father who was one of the 96.
It was a terrible tragedy which could have been avoided if the police had done their jobs correctly. 44 ambulances arrived, but police prevented all but one of them from entering the stadium.
What was to follow this awful tragedy was accusations that the behavior of Liverpool fans contributed to the disaster centered around consumption of alcohol before the game and attempts to enter the ground without a ticket added to the pain for these families and to the people of Liverpool.
The reports from the police were covered up for almost 24 years due to Margret Thatcher and her government. The families of the victims had no justice down to this woman. No she wasn't there at the time, she wasn't one of the incompetent police that day, but she denied families closure, justice and caused more heartache.
The miners
In 1984 they closed 20 coal mines, with a loss of 20,000
jobs and many communities in the north of England as well as Scotland and Wales
would lose their primary source of employment.
The strike lasted over a year. People who had worked hard their whole lives
suddenly found themselves unemployed, unable to provide for their
families. With no support from Thatcher
or her government.
Unemployment
Whilst creating mass unemployment via monetarism, Margret Thatcher also abolished 'minimum' wages and Union power, so workers would have no say in how they were being treated. Thereby making people grateful for work, therefore more unlikely to strike against them.
Unemployment was over 3 million for the first time since the
1930s under Margret Thatcher. She sold
off stat owned businesses such as BT to pay for her economic policy of having
huge dole queues.
She initiated what were politically termed as ‘right wing
monetarist’ policies.
The ‘monetarist’ policies were privatization and inward
competition, and both were initiated to create mass redundancies and sacking in
order to equally create mass unemployment to lower inflation, so profits could
be made on the backs of workers losing their jobs, which is what happened
through 18 years of ‘right wing’ Tory rule in Britain.
Whilst creating mass unemployment via monetarism, Margret Thatcher also abolished 'minimum' wages and Union power, so workers would have no say in how they were being treated. Thereby making people grateful for work, therefore more unlikely to strike against them.
I wasn't alive in the Thatcher era, but her legacy she has left us with is all around. Do I think she deserves a state funeral? No. Do I think it's right to celebrate her death? I don't deny those who she has hurt the right to do so. Do I think it's right the tax payer should fork out 10 million on her funeral? Not a chance.
Towns and cities up and down the country celebrated the news of her death by throwing parties in the streets, lined with banners which said 'the bitch is dead'.
Do these things scream give this woman a 10 million pound state funeral? No.
In the words of Frankie Boyle: ' With 10 million we could buy enough shovels and pay everyone in Scotland to dig a hole deep enough we can hand her over to Satan himself.'
Towns and cities up and down the country celebrated the news of her death by throwing parties in the streets, lined with banners which said 'the bitch is dead'.
Do these things scream give this woman a 10 million pound state funeral? No.
In the words of Frankie Boyle: ' With 10 million we could buy enough shovels and pay everyone in Scotland to dig a hole deep enough we can hand her over to Satan himself.'
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