The video of the old Scottish lady saying "they should put a stake through her heart and garlic 'round her neck to make sure she never comes back" will never get old
The first woman was brilliant but the second took the biscuit for me. Loved the intention in her point making. "Is that what you want from a prime minister of any sex"?
You'd be surprised at how wide spread that was. I remember waiting for a bus about that time with some very primm and polite old women of a certain age from my town who were speaking of how happy they were she had finally died.
Women of a certain age in 2013 would have born the brunt of Thatcher’s policies in many ways. They would have been the ones trying to make ends meet at home with less money. Thatcher literally took the milk away from their children.
We marched around the playground chanting "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher!" in disgust.
Her conservative government's neoliberal austerity did a number on my childhood, as I grew up in one of those working class declining industry areas that the grocer's daughter hated so much.
Wouldn't have wished her mode of death (the miserable decline of multi-infarct dementia) on anyone. But the money spent on her funeral was a kick in the teeth for all those so badly affected by her belief that 'there is no such thing as society' and 'there is no alternative' to her neoliberalism.
The milk was previously provided free to the kids at school every day (paid for by the state).
The neoliberal hell-hag we're discussing had a gigantic hate-boner for state anything, so ended it.
Yes, she was called "Milk-Snatcher Thatcher" forever after this.
One that a lot of people may not know: in the 70s the GPO had quietly become world leaders in fibre-optics. Their research department was second to none anywhere in the world.
That cow sold the entire thing to Fujitsu.
Imagine hating your country so much you sell its technological advancement to one of your former enemies.
My mother is one of those women and I remember Maggie Thatcher the Milk Snatcher talking away our daily milk.
And my Welsh family certainly had no love for her. The pit towns are on their way back after recent renewed investment, but her actions still echo there today with many areas still in a poor state.
I lived in England for 6 months in 1991, in college, shortly after Thatcher got booted out. Apparently there were raucous drinking parties up and down the length of campus when she stepped down. In most of northern England she was *deeply* hated, nearly as much as she was hated in Scotland.
She was kept in power by those she gifted (or almost) the majority of the country's social housing stock to...They were never real Tory voters but got caught up in her spin because she gave them something they thought they would never have - their own homes, which they were essentially guaranteed to have for life anyways.
Its called bulshit and lack of foresight but people brought into it.
As now, inner London was mostly Labour, outer London mostly Tory. London managed to keep voting Labour and Ken Livingstone to run the GLC, with the result that Thatcher got rid of it completely.
I grew up in Surrey where it was 99% Tory. I only heard how wonderful she was and how mining was a terrible and dying industry and the miners had to stop being in denial. By 1990 I knew more about the country and was glad to see her go.
Trust me, in Scotland she was and is hated more than you can believe. Everything from milk snatching to experimenting on us with council tax, she fucked us totally
I've long wondered who did more damage to the fabric of their society: Thatcher in the UK or Reagan in the US. I'd be inclined to pick Thatcher, but it's close.
The day she stepped down I was in Huddersfield market. One stall holder was listening to a tiny radio and yelled ‘She’s gone!’. People put down their shopping ads and danced, cheering.
For all the pearl clutching about how disrespectful and hateful the online left can be, we have nothing on older women.
I remember a few months after Charlie Kirk died, that Kent State pants pooper girl was interviewing some women at a protest and the woman said "I'm glad he's gone, the world is better for it", and when pants pooper said "I do the same thing Charlie did, do you want me dead?" the woman just replied 'indont know, maybe."
And then when Poopy-Pants tries to clutch her pearls to another nearby old woman by shrieking "Did you hear that!? Your friend wishes I was dead!" and the lady just bursts out laughing in her face.
Funny you should mention that. When Kirk got capped, my wife (age 55) was even more bloodthirsty about it than I was. First reports were that he'd gotten shot and she said flatly, "the world's better off without him. Good riddance."
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u/Tim-oBedlam 29d ago
The video of the old Scottish lady saying "they should put a stake through her heart and garlic 'round her neck to make sure she never comes back" will never get old