Way out West (incorporating Way up North)

least we forget

In these barbarous times there seems to be a bit of a mission to rehabilitate Margaret Thatcher; tea with the prime minister and occasional moments of gut-wrenching adulation. True, it is very sad to see an old and somewhat confused lady being wheeled out to attempt to prop up flagging political careers. As someone cleverer than me has said; I hope that when they bury her she'll have a bloody big tomb, the number of people who'll want to dance on her grave.

She was that most dangerous of things a conviction politician, she genuinely believed that what she was doing was right, and wasn't prepared to consider that there might ever have been an alternative view. She didn't like trains, so now we have the most useless and outmoded rail network in Europe, didn't like Unions, so we have Murdoch and miscellaneous nazis and pornographers telling us what to think, didn't like coal (or rather the power that the miners had), so now we're dependent on imported fuel. She decimated my industry because she couldn't see the point of it, unless it was opera, in which case you could use it to impress people, even if you don't like it yourself.

As a former food scientist, she was wholly responsible for permitting the relaxation of food standards which lead to BSE and the rise of Bernard Matthews. Finally, as they say, she took us to war, a war that was entirely unneccessary, and would probably never have happened if the government at the time hadn't withdrawn the singular naval presence from the South Atlantic. A lot of people died to give her another term in office.

So, when you're looking at the dubious collection of former estate agents and used car salesmen that are clamouring for your vote, offer up a little prayer to the deity of your choice that the mollusc in a suit doesn't have any real convictions, it's safer that way.

by way of light relief, try this: http://www.fandmpublications.co.uk/pages/maggiequote.htm

not quite as good as the Julie Burchill random recycler, but with a little help from the world, it could be.

posted by Lampy @ 10/01/2007 08:44:00 pm