The fact
that Margaret Thatcher died yesterday dominates many media channels and has split opinion. People have been phoning in to radio channels on both sides of
the argument.
Personally I
loathed the woman and what she stood for and side with those holding street
parties. After entering Downing Street offering to
bring harmony out of discord, truth from error, faith from doubt and hope from
despair, she blatantly failed on all four counts. Someone on the radio this morning pointed out
that, after the closure of 97 British mines, many miners used their redundancy
money to buy their own homes under the new Right to Buy Scheme and then had no
income with which to live in the said houses as they were jobless and there
were no jobs in the area. Asking people
for money to buy shares in institutions that they own already is not just sharp
practice but actually amounts to fraud.
I am at a loss to understand Thatcher’s
attraction. It’s fairly easy to up the
bank balance if you flog off all the family silver and don’t bother spending
money on feeding the children. Is it
just that there is a section of the British public that loves dictators? She may have been steadfast in her views and actions, but many of us prefer democracy. And of
course there was an alternative. We could have tried behaving like decent human
beings.
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