Margaret Thatcher is dead

[Glyn and Kathy 288]

How many people think her economic policies have something to do with where the UK is today ?

Oh I've heard a fair few, on both local and national news saying that her policies, in the long run, contributed to the how bad things are here now.

[Póg mo 1,749]

Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher:

The blunt, pathetic reality today is that a little old lady has died, who in the winter of her life had to water roses alone under police supervision. If you behave like there's no such thing as society, in the end there isn't. Her death must be sad for the handful of people she was nice to and the rich people who got richer under her stewardship. It isn't sad for anyone else. There are pangs of nostalgia, yes, because for me she's all tied up with Hi-De-Hi and Speak and Spell and Blockbusters and "follow the bear". What is more troubling is my inability to ascertain where my own selfishness ends and her neo-liberal inculcation begins. All of us that grew up under Thatcher were taught that it is good to be selfish, that other people's pain is not your problem, that pain is in fact a weakness and suffering is deserved and shameful. Perhaps there is resentment because the clemency and respect that are being mawkishly displayed now by some and haughtily demanded of the rest of us at the impending, solemn ceremonial funeral, are values that her government and policies sought to annihilate.

continued on link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/09/russell-brand-margaret-thatcher

[Póg mo 1,749]

Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette

"This demand for respectful silence in the wake of a public figure's death is not just misguided but dangerous. That one should not speak ill of the dead is arguably appropriate when a private person dies, but it is wildly inappropriate for the death of a controversial public figure, particularly one who wielded significant influence and political power. "Respecting the grief" of Thatcher's family members is appropriate if one is friends with them or attends a wake they organize, but the protocols are fundamentally different when it comes to public discourse about the person's life and political acts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-etiquette

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Macka B, going off on Maggie vintage style

(my translation)

Everybody a complain bout di poll tax and Margaret Thatcher

But every time election come, dem vote her back in

Dat cyaan work !

Get rid of Maggie unno fi get rid of Margaret Thatcher...

She is a thievin' son-of-a....

'Ca every time mi see her mon mi skin start fi itch

No matter how she wrong Margaret Thatcher nah switch

No human couldn't evil so I'm sure she is a witch

Mi sure inna di night she ride 'pon a broomstick

She a thief from di poor, she a give it to the rich

Mi sure deh 'pon her forehead there's a 666

Mi seh Lucifer sister deh inna politics

And about time they get rid of dat b!tch

Get rid of Maggie, unno fi get rid of Margaret Thatcher...

Now I'm talkin to the population of England

I want a answer to my question

And di question is, when a dem have election

Why do you always bring back that woman

Mi seh look pon di state of di nation

Cuts in health and di education

High interest rates and di inflation

Soon fi buy a house you haffi have a million

Mi seh look how she is handling the ambulance man

She no want give dem nuttin fi a job well done

And everything privatization

And we all know her views pon immigration

Mi seh look pon di poll tax what a bam bam

You betta save if you live in a house or if you live in a mansion

Now mi no politician but me know sey dat wrong

It just part of the conservative plan

Mi seh

You see di poll tax, what kind a thing dat

It would be good if nobody never pay dat

All your bills and di poll tax pon top

Dem mussi take poor people fi idiot

To tell the truth, some of dem a idiot

'Ca dey complain 'bout Maggie a lot

Dem a say she a dis and dem a say she a dat

When election come, dem just a vote her back

Get rid of Maggie, unno fi get rid of Margaret Thatcher...

Now dey call Margaret Thatcher di Iron Woman

She a di most ignorant woman inna England

She no business if she right, she no business if she wrong

Cho! From she office, she don't give a damn

A she want, no want sanction

And she want out a all di nation

And she want, sey she don't want none, and a

Like she no want apartheid fi done

She did want to invite DeKlerk to London

To work out a likkle money transaction

She glad when dem release Mandela out a prison

But she never glad for di right reason

The reason why she glad Mandela is free

Got nothing to do with rights and equality

'Ca all she a think 'bout is investment money

She want boost up the English economy

She is a thiefin' son-of-a.....

Vote her out, mon

Get rid of that woman

[Sarah Elle-Même 660]

Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher:

The blunt, pathetic reality today is that a little old lady has died, who in the winter of her life had to water roses alone under police supervision. If you behave like there's no such thing as society, in the end there isn't. Her death must be sad for the handful of people she was nice to and the rich people who got richer under her stewardship. It isn't sad for anyone else. There are pangs of nostalgia, yes, because for me she's all tied up with Hi-De-Hi and Speak and Spell and Blockbusters and "follow the bear". What is more troubling is my inability to ascertain where my own selfishness ends and her neo-liberal inculcation begins. All of us that grew up under Thatcher were taught that it is good to be selfish, that other people's pain is not your problem, that pain is in fact a weakness and suffering is deserved and shameful. Perhaps there is resentment because the clemency and respect that are being mawkishly displayed now by some and haughtily demanded of the rest of us at the impending, solemn ceremonial funeral, are values that her government and policies sought to annihilate.

continued on link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/09/russell-brand-margaret-thatcher

Brand has finally come back to his senses. Must be a miracle brought on by old Maggie's death.

May she rust in hell, old iron b****. May she and Reagan and their anti-Christ goddess Ayn Rand suffer fire and brimstone for all eternity. Best thing to do now is to popularize her [and Reagan's] real legacy - that which decimated the rights of the poor and the working class and how she fought the end of apartheid tooth and nail. She on more than one occasion referred to Nelson Mandela as a terrorist. Thank GOD he outlived her.

Also - better Brand quotes from the article:

"Norman Tebbit, one of Thatcher's acolytes and fellow 'Munsters evacuee', said when the National Union of Mineworkers eventually succumbed to the military onslaught and starvation over which she presided: 'We didn't just break the strike, we broke the spell.' The spell he was referring to is the unseen bond that connects us all and prevents us from being subjugated by tyranny. The spell of community."

"Obama, interestingly, said in his statement that she had 'broken the glass ceiling for other women'. Only in the sense that all the women beneath her were blinded by falling shards. She is an icon of individualism, not of feminism."

Edited April 11, 2013 by Sarah and Adnan

[Sarah Elle-Même 660]

My personal favorite.