Margaret: The Death of a Revolutionary
I've just watched Channel Four's documentary of the above title and at last feel that I now know something about The Iron Lady.
I have to admit that I was angered by the vitriolic sentiment shown by some members of this incredible writing community in a very well posted thread entitled 'Thatcher: Dead', and it's only now that the facts of this extraordinary woman's lifeworks have been made clear in 'Margaret: The Death of a Revolutionary'.
As a reactionary liberal under the guidance of her hardworking, working-class father, this fearless woman infiltrated the party that she abhorred most (because it was run by the establishment), although she also knew only too well that Labour were just as bad in their own hierarchically moronic way, and revolutionised the country through the empowerment of the working-classes to decide their future for the very first time in our history.
Yes, there were losers (I was one because I was hooked on self-pity, drugs, parties and hangovers, which was no fault of my own) but there were also many winners, almost entirely made up of those who would have remained pitifully poor had she never risen to power.
Yes, greed took over, but that's what happens when wealth is redistributed (for the first time ever) and those who have never had it before receive a slice. They want to keep hold of it and damn right too! I couldn't even keep hold of my rent before the month was up.
This may seem an untimely post for all those who are misguided in celebrating Margaret Thatcher's death, but the truth will catch up with you one day so I see no harm in it.
In her eleven year reign, she singlehandedly halved the national deficit and took Britain from being the poor man of Europe to being the enlightened one, and it was the wets (the establishment elite) who ousted her from her rightful place and not the working classes, who had mostly turned to her after finally seeing the tyrannical, shameful performance of past Labour and Tory governments for what it was; man as slave to the state.
I have only just started to take life seriously without stimulants to blank out my fears and guilt, and I fully intend to celebrate this woman's life for what it was.
I don't expect anyone to respect my views. I am not right wing at all but I am a realist.
I will definitely argue my case so long as posts are respectful and honest.
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