You can feel it in the north, you can feel it the south. Mary Lou McDonald said that while she would always hate Margaret Thatcher's politics, comments made on social media after her death were "most unfair". Image source, PA. Mrs Thatcher refused to grant hunger-striking prisoners like Bobby Sands, whose funeral on 7 May is pictured here. Childish self. There was nothing like her before, and there has been nothing like her since. Thank God. Never can there have been such a divisive figure in British public life.
She created the banking crisis. And she created the benefits crisis. It was her government that started putting people on incapacity benefit rather than register them as unemployed because the Britain she inherited was broadly full employment. She decided when she wrote off our manufacturing industry that she could live with two or three million unemployed, and the benefits bill, the legacy of that, we are struggling with today.
In actual fact, every real problem we face today is the legacy of the fact that she was fundamentally wrong. Kevin Maguire at the Mirror adds:. So I send my condolences to two children who have lost a mother but I shed no crocodile tears for Thatcherism.
Critics of the Falklands War are also speaking out. We did not hold her in high regard. So we will not allow a tear for this woman. The damage projected over the last 30 years of humanity cannot be measured in words. For Argentines, it was Thatcher who murdered hundreds of Argentines. English protest singer Billy Bragg writes on Facebook :. The phone rang a couple of times in the night, but I ignored it, assuming it was a wrong number.
Got up late to find that breakfast had finished and heavy snow had fallen overnight. Headed out onto the streets of Calgary to find coffee. Power up my wifi and what do I find? Not content with destroying the ability of working people to organise in the workplace for decent wages, that damn woman has seriously messed up my day off. She left as many poor and bitter as she did wealthy and self-satisfied, and neither group would forget it.
Although she insisted there was " no such thing as society, " Thatcher's rule thoroughly dredged the tributaries of Britain's class system. That's why the Iron Lady will be mourned and lauded in equal, competing measures — and why we'll be arguing about her real legacy for decades to come.
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