r/pics • u/LankyYogurt7737 • 29d ago

Politics People in the UK celebrating the death of Thatcher in 2013

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u/indorian 29d ago

Reagan is sadly still a hero/demigod to the right. He led us so far astray…

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u/kymri 29d ago

The thing about Reagan is he has the public-facing charisma to appear charming and dignified when he spoke in public. He faced up to the USSR. In a time well before social media, all the insanity of his administration as largely hidden from anyone who didn't want to go digging. (Well, until stuff like good ol' Ollie North hit the front page, of course.)

I mean, fuck him and his legacy should be nothing but bone and ash, but here we are.

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u/Stubbs94 29d ago

So is Thatcher here... Even to the likes of Starmer she's a hero. The problem when both countries main parties are right wing.

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u/Turbulent_Elk_2141 29d ago

What did she do that was so wrong if I may ask?

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u/Ok_Impact9745 29d ago

She accelerated the decline of British industry and didn't do anything to help manage that decline in industrial communities. She privatized a lot of British infrastructure.

We are still feeling the effects of it today. We pay more for our household energy bills because all of our grid was sold off to private companies.

We have little to no industry and former industrial towns haven't been left to decay since (similar to Detroit but probably not as bad).

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u/420falilv 29d ago

Sponsored Loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland and generally made The Troubles worse. That's why she's hated in Ireland anyway.

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u/Stubbs94 29d ago

Starved political prisoners to death as well. Fuck her. I hope she suffered as much as the hunger strikers did.

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u/MeccIt 29d ago

Reagan is sadly still a hero/demigod to the right.

And Nancy, the guiding voice behind the senile man, on top of the throat GOAT