It was 20 years ago today

Published by Tom

November 22, 2010

Margaret Thatcher: My tears for the iron lady – Telegraph.

The mess we are in began 20 years ago today. Margaret Thatcher had fired a large enough group of "wets" that – clinging together in their mediocrity – even they felt brave enough to take her on. I was at a City dinner in the Guildhall when the news came through and Francis Pym was the speaker. He had been the first she fired. I shall never forget the look of delight on his face.

It was her own fault. She was such a strong person that she could not conceive the petty malice that constituted the political thought of most around her. She had done nothing to prepare her exit from political life. She had not sought to train a successor, probably because – as a possessor of great natural talents – she could not conceive that one would not simply emerge. In the end she was deposed for refusing to set a timetable for Britain to join EMU (the project that led to the Euro). She has lived to see a single currency fail as she predicted it must.

There was a shocking misogyny to the celebrations of her enemies, as there has been to her treatment throughout her life. Feeble John Major is seen as a statesman, for all that – in abolishing the right to silence – he was a Conservative pioneer of Labour's assault on civil liberties, but she remains "that bloody woman."

No-one else will say it so let me. Thanks, Margaret. You did your best, but we didn't deserve you.

3 responses to “It was 20 years ago today”

Andy H

November 22, 2010

Amen.

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Just Woke Up

December 10, 2010

I heard that one of her first moves was to pay off Napoleonic war debt! I haven’t been able to verify this personally but it came from a good source. If true this alone shows that in over 150 years we have only had one PM who actually understands economics and the cancer of interest payments. Doesn’t bode well for our economic future either.
Politics is a mixed bag (pun intended). MT made some mistakes but these were few – and she was obstructed at every turn by the media, her own people, the baying mob of lefties angry that the sky is blue, and ultimately by the voter. New Labour (spits) never ever suffered the scale of the vicious, prolonged media attack that MT and her Tory party suffered. We never got to see the bloody awful Spitting Image doing New Labour. The fact that MT stood her ground and held office for so long despite the misinformation and media propaganda campaign speaks volumes.
She offered REAL hope for a bright future. Not just lefty/Common Purpose/Communitarian empty promises of a Utopia for everyone. I must be one of the few Scotsmen who liked The Iron Lady and wish we had MPs today who were have as intelligent and committed to the ideas of personal freedom and liberty. Sadly all we have now are salesmen, lawyers and shysters running the show. They can’t even stand in her shadow!
The problem is that there are more misinformed morons with the vote than people with some intelligence and knowledge. Therein lies our downfall.
The sad truth is that we’ll never see her like again. They wouldn’t be allowed near politics or a microphone. Small businesses and those of us who work in the private sector will never again have a strong voice to speak out for us. We’re fucked!

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Just Woke Up

December 10, 2010

I am a time served precision machine operator. Back in the days when actually made stuff for export I was forced into bloody awful unions as I earned my crust. This is when I turned from socialist to adopt a more Libertarian view of life. The scale of the nastiness, short-sightedness, and utter contempt these bullies had for everyone else around them (including union members) was mind-boggling for me. You see, every union in every factory was stocked with non-skilled or semi-skilled cretins who had a huge chip on their shoulders. Instead of promoting the idea of excellence and endeavour they had visions of a soviet utopia and did everything possible to sabotage us skilled men and drag us down to the level of non-skilled workers. To them we were all just workers you see. Skilled and non-skilled were the same to them. The writing was on the wall for British industry due to the power these gangsters held to wreck things. I personally experienced two small factories, run by very nice families who paid well and were fair employers, close down because the Unions wrecked every manufacturing contract they had. Hundreds of jobs lost. Tories and Mrs Thatcher were blamed and the cretins around me didn’t once ask whether going out on strike every month over nothing was even part of the problem. Where is the victory for the working man there? Unions? I fucking spit on them! And with the dwindling membership I am obviously not alone. The unions spent 30 years doing their damnedest sabotaging and wrecking this country much like they did with every factory where they got a foothold.
And dare I mention the word UNION is in the EU? Most, if not all, public sector workers are unionised.
My MP is a red and still a member of Unite Union. I can’t think of anything scarier – but people keep falling for the bull and keep blaming the wrong people for their hardships. We are well and truly fucked!
Incidentally. I haven’t worked for a company with a union presence for 18 years now and its a much more pleasant and productive atmosphere. See, my bosses knew that to keep the best people they needed to pay well and look after us. The minute the bosses tried playing silly buggers, the good workers moved on as there was always another place looking for quality people. That’s how a free market works. Manufacturing and private industry is now faced with the triple whammy of having the EUSSR, our own soviet Govt (and their undemocratic quangos), and the unions all taking turns to kick us in the nuts and deter us from creating jobs and hiring people and creating wealth for the country. And people wonder why there are no jobs, the country is in crisis for any number of reasons, and the future looks extremely bleak? Ha!
Unfortunately unionism is a disease of the mind. Knuckle-dragging biffos who don’t seem to be able to understand that without excellence and achievement and freedom and liberty we are heading back to live in caves – or internment camps.

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