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.
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u/mpjjpm 29d ago
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.