Thatcher Continues To Divide.

[diddlydo]

Disgraceful that this sum of money should be spent on unveiling her statue in the midst of a pandemic and economic crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/02/mini-brexit-margaret-thatchers-statue-divides-her-hometown

[emmie]

from Naomi post

From the BBC.

//The Conservative-led authority agreed to fund the event but "fully expected" the money to be recouped in donations.//

So this is not being paid for from the public purse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-55146068

[Paigntonian]

I'd be happy to contribute. She not only defeated the odious Scargill, the ghastly dictatorship in Argentina and played a critical role in ending the Cold War. The British people put their faith in her at three general elections so is anyone really saying that the British electors were in some way stupid. And she was the first female PM. That is, alone, worthy of respect.

[emmie]

some obviously hated her, you can tell from previous posts that there was a deal of animosity. But many who do weren't around when she was in power. First female PM, some can't handle that fact,

[diddlydo]

I was very much alive for all the long years she was in power. We celebrated her going with a bottle of champagne.

[bobbinwales]

If you mean her sacking thats fine. If your talking about her death that would be sick imo.

[emmie]

so much bitterness -

[emmie]

glorying in anyone's death is sick isn't it bobbin,

[emmie]

she's been gone as said since 2013 out of power since 1990, lots happened since then.

[diddlydo]

We celebrated when she was kicked out not when she died - I would have thought that was obvious.

[emmie]

no its not obvious. She won three terms in office, someone must have voted for her.

[bobbinwales]

thanks diddlydo, some danced around and celebrated her death and there was a campaign by Thatcher haters which got Ding Dong the Witch is Dead back in the charts to celebrate her death, so it was a reasonable question

[emmie]

i can;t understand this hatred, not at all. Bobbin if they did then shame on them

[Mozz71]

In fairless Diddles, many celebrated her death, hence Ding Dong The Witch is Dead getting to number two in the charts the week she passed. Asking for clarification wasn't out of order.

[Mozz71]

Bobbin thoroughly beat me to the punch then lol

[Deskdiary]

"Thatcher continues to divide"...as has every PM.

For some she's anathema, for me she was, without a single shadow of a doubt, easily the best PM in my lifetime.

In the mid to late 70s, the UK was utterly fubarred due to Labour Government and the stranglehold of militant unions and, like it or not, she turned the country around. She just did.

People always whine about what she did to the miners, whilst very conveniently forgetting that Labour closed more pits than she did, and that it is the economy of the madhouse to flog a dead horse when it was costing more to mine coal than it could be sold for.

I couldn't really give a toss whether there is or isn't a statue in Grantham, but I can all but guarantee there'll be ongoing mindless vandalism of it, most likely by mouthbreathers who weren't even born when she left office.

[emmie]

DD which is what i have pointed out. Besides which the OP said she hated Mrs T and resents the cost, even though she doesn't live in Grantham, or anywhere near.

[emmie]

the cost involved could well be for the police presence.

[ichkeria]

One thinks (at least, I do) of such classics as "Miss Maggie" by Renaud, and "Tramp the Dirt Down" by Elvis Costello (in fairness the latter only as a track on an album).
At the time, such satire (bitter in the case of Costello, more lighthearted in the former)
"Et quand viendra l'heure dernière ....
Moi je me changerai en chien
Si je peux rester sur terre
Et comme réverbère quotidien
Je m'offrirai Madame Thatcher"
was probably fair game, when she was at the height of her powers.
The witch thing, by 2013, seemed in very poor taste.

[emmie]

yet lots going on here still hate her, the witch thing was absurd.

[Ken4155]

^
Not quite as absurd as it's 'rival' song, I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher, which charted at 35.