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Thatcher's Heart Of Iron

THE PROPAGANDA

Margaret Thatcher saved Britain. She was a great and fearless warrior. She was a visionary and a giant among world leaders.

THE TRUTH

Against the flood of propaganda, lies, distortions and Orwellian changing of the past, the space for the truth is remarkably small. But there is space. So let’s start filling it and remind ourselves of the true legacy of the most pitiless, inhumane, greedy, venal and megalomaniacal creature ever to cross the threshold of 10 Downing Street:

1. The institutionalised corruption of privatising the nation’s utilities so her mates in the City could get ever richer.

2. The complete dismantling of entire industries and the communities that relied on them.

3. Engineering the biggest transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest ever seen in the UK up to that point.

4. The cynical and immoral war-mongering in the Falklands for the sole purpose of conning a politically backward electorate in securing for her a further term in office.

5. The Poll Tax, riots, poverty, record unemployment, the most draconian and repressive employment legislation anywhere in the developed world, more small businesses going to the wall than at any period prior to her rule

6. Her defence of and friendship with Chilean mass-murdering dictator General Pinochet

7. The ruination of the National Health Service (NHS) to name but a few of her achievements.

Much more can be added to this partial list. We are, today, as she made us. A paranoid, divided, mean-spirited nation, full of resentment, envy, greed and distrust. Racist, selfish, inhumane and tragically too stupid to see we are now nothing but turkeys lining up to continually vote for Christmas.

HEART OF IRON

The end of the 80s saw Thatcher's economic chickens come home to roost, when the boom built on rising house prices and junk bonds crashed. Thatcher was out of power when PM's John Major and Gordon Brown de-regulated the banks to the point that they could sell each other bags of air and spit with our money and keep the profits.

Thatcher did a whole shitload of harm, but she isn't responsible for all the ills in the world. Look more closely at the communities she allowed to fail, the utilities we rely on that she sold to profiteers and the union movement she destroyed. Those public sector workers marching to defend their contracted pensions have no hope because they are so few and others are able to strike in support. That's her true legacy - the workers are powerless and the balance of power is with those she served - the filthy rich.