A mighty tyrant passed from this world recently. No, I am not writing about Hugo Chavez, though the person I have in mind has much in common with that bombastic and verbose dictator of resource-rich Venezuela. Both he and my subject have a meticulously-built cult of personality surrounding them, dappled generously with strong hints of messianic grandeur. In the case of Chavez, however, this false glory does not extend very far out of certain political strongholds in South America. In the case of my subject, the whole of the western world is potential prey to a similarly ludicrous notion.
I speak, of course, of the Baroness Margaret Thatcher.
No one has been more responsible for the degradation of modern British society than Thatcher. From her humble beginnings endorsing the re-legalization of beating children with birch sticks, Thatcher’s sadism turned to policies of privatization and destruction of union power. Her reforms are the reason for the rampant joblessness and poverty found in Britain today. She gutted state-run businesses and turned them over to cronies in the private sector, all at the expense of the downtrodden. The Baroness obliterated whole industries (and the communities that supported them) out of an apparently urgent need to steal power from working-class unionists, men and women who simply wanted a little more than the tiny sliver of the massive pie their bosses were greedily wolfing down.
In short, Margaret Thatcher made the rich richer and the poor poorer. There is no respectable ethical standard anywhere that could consider this a success. The only reason Great Britain even had a chance to survive was the dumb luck discovery of massive North Sea oil reserves. The 90 percent tax rate on this energy source (The Baroness seems to have had no problem piling on the taxes here, eh?) is probably the sole reason her leadership lasted as long as it did.
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WOW! I think the most important part of your op-ed piece Ms. Raed is in the final paragraph when you say ” It is our responsibility as citizens of the free world to not tolerate the elevation of the Iron Lady to sainthood by the yellow press” Obviously you don’t feel any responsibility to honesty when you put your poison pen to paper. Responsibility of yellow press goes both ways Ms. Raed.
Was Ms Thatcher without her faults? Of course she wasn’t, who among us is. But she was hardly the tyrant you describe her as. To her credit ( and I suspect you would agree had her political background been aligned with the Labour party ) she was a self made individual. Starting out as a housewife running for local office and rising on her own to leader of Great Britain. A tremendous accomplishment wouldn’t you say?When she became Prime Minister strikes by Unions (and I’m NOT anti union having been a member of one for over 30 yrs) were widespread and frequent occurrence disrupting peoples daily life. Inflation was sky high as were taxes. She also played a very important part, as did Reagan, in the melt down of what was the Soviet Union ( Former Soviet leader Gorbachev admitted this in interviews )
People can argue back and forth endlessly, agreeing or disagreeing on her policies, and as I admitted earlier she was certainly not without faults. But Margret Thatcher was certainly not anything like you describe in this piece of fiction you wrote Ms. Raed.
What a despicable attack against a moral leader who rose from humble roots, and who just died! As Tony said here, she wasn’t without fault, but she wasn’t a tyrant as described here by a seemingly “crazy lady”.
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Another screed from Lucy Raed. She can’t find enough hateful things to say about our own people so she has to cross the Atlantic and spread the hate to the best prime minister of the UK since Winston Churchill (of course she would probably prefer the ultra left-wing fraudster Ward Churchill to Winston). She has no credibility and has as much love for facts as Dracula does for holy water. It’s a waste of time to challenge her on anything since the extreme left is a religion for her just as the followers of commie preacher Jim Jones followed him to the point of suicide. Just pray for her.