Perhaps With A New Labour Government Looming.....

[ToraToraTora]

It's good to have a reminder that they created the conditions that made TGL necessary last time:

Fred Forsyth – Daily Express – 23/02/2007

In all the publicity surrounding the thoroughly merited unveiling of the statue of Margaret Thatcher in the Members’ Lobby of the commons, it is easy to overlook the 17 years of her systematic demonisation by the sniggering classes.

 

The point is that you have to be of a certain maturity to recall the sheer awfulness of the last years of the seventies. Not just the winter of discontent, 1978/79 but the whole tottering edifice of our country reduced to a near-bankrupt “sick man of Europe”. We were heading, literally, for national ruin.

Every politician, civil servant, banker, industrialist and merchant was convinced that the rot could not even be stopped let alone turned around. But Mrs Thatcher did it and with not much help from the defeatists around her. Most of them believed Britain was finished.

 

But she took them all on and beat almost all of them. Galtieri in the south, Scargill in the North, the union tyrants at the strike polls, the wimps wherever she met them. They, reduced to their natural pygmy status hated her for it – and still do.

But, whatever they say, she did what had to be done. In her own words “There was no alternative”.

What has always riled me is that the self-serving coterie that destroyed her were not even up to her kneecaps. Such a pity that David Cameron has restored half a dozen of them to his innermost circle of advisers.

Twenty years from now she will still be staring in bronze across the members’ lobby. But you will have to scour the archives to find out who those who brought her down ever were.

[Blubster]

Who, or what, is TGL?

[ToraToraTora]

see if you can work it out from the subject matter of this post.

[ToraToraTora]

my avatar may give you a clue...

[naomi24]

Blubster - The Great Lady - Margaret Thatcher.

[Blubster]

Thanks, Naomi, a sensible answer at last...

[naomi24]

I'm not a fan of all this faffing around with language, blubster. It's silly.

[gulliver1]

Blubster 17.55. TGL ..The Ghastly Lady.. Margaret Thatcher.

[gulliver1]

I see the Cons have had to remove statues and cover up pictures and painting of Thatcher at all of their election meetings for fear of losing even more votes

[douglas9401]

Ah, deah, deah Freddie.

[gulliver1]

At least  this lot who are being kicked out of power now have the decency to go quietly with their pockets stuffed with taxpayers cash But Thatcher started a bloody war so that she could stay in power.

[ToraToraTora]

There's one answer missing on this post, come on, you know who you are!