mikey mikey wrote:
During the early eighties, I grew up in Jarrow, Tyneside. My father worked in the shipyards as did most of his family. That is until they were closed and my town was hit with 50% unemployment. After four years in and out of work, he got a job in the docks in Felixstowe and we had to move. Like most northern families looking for work in the South, we received a lot of abuse. Thanks to the rhetoric of Mrs. Thatcher and her government, we were viewed as parasites and second-class citizens. I struggled to get a place at University and at 18, having got my place despite a lot of prejudice from my teachers, I left the town and never came back.
All these years I have felt anger and bitterness towards Mrs. Thatcher, her government and her supporters. Yesterday's long anticipated news, however, left me somewhat numb initially. I cannot say I celebrated. After years of bloodthirsty wingnuts relishing the deaths of their enemies, I just couldn't. What I felt was relief. A release from the bitterness, anger and hate. Of something being finally over.
I do not condemn the people celebrating her death either. I think I can understand that they are taking this last opportunity to vent for all of these years of rage and frustration that have built up and never been truly allowed to be expressed. I can also understand that this appears as a small piece of justice or revenge after decades of injustice and defeat. With the prospect laid out only a week ago of further injustice and defeat to come, then it is unsuprising that they wish to take this fleeting opportunity. Moreover, in the face of what appears to be a massive revisionist campaign by much of the media to have her remembered as a saviour and heroine, I can see why the population who remember what she did and what she set in motion are eager to set the record straight.
RIP
May God have mercy on her soul
I'm disappointed there is no god or hell or that, sure she'd have got a good talking to if there was
