Bye Bye Maggie
General Discussions ( Anything Goes )
Rent-a-mob! There are always people available for these occasions - people who have no political affiliations unless they are paid to do so. You'll notice that a great many of them were so young that they would have no knowledge of Margaret Thatcher or of the dismal dump Britain was prior to her premiership. I am certainly old enough to remember having to serve in my parents' shop by the light of an Aladdin lamp. A newspaper columnist today reminded us that having a monopoly in charge of telephone lines meant that you could wait up to 18 months for a phone line and even have to share a line! I recall that when my parents retired from the shop (my father got a job elsewhere), they were told they would have to share their telephone line with someone else! We endured that for a while.
Then there were the likes of Arthur Scargill and Derek Hatton. They certainly made a great contribution to the decline of GB.
Yes, she made mistakes but no one, even those who loathe(d) her, can deny that she was a woman of conviction and courage. And remember she was working-class herself and grew up in a home with an outside loo.
