With the sad news that Margaret Thatcher has died, I find myself unable to watch the BBC, knowing they will be struggling to hide their smirks amid endless whining. But Lord help us Sky News is a stream of miners strike, poll tax riots and morons like Derek Hatton given air time. Derek Hatton! The corrupting communist who is delighted he doesn't live in a communist country.
What seems to have been missed is the fact that Thatcher was elected because the country was fed up with yet another Labour government of incompetent and ignorant misfits, who had wrecked the economy and saw refuse piling up in the streets because Labour wouldn't confront their paymasters, the Unions.
Thatcher did take them on, as they would otherwise hold back her revolution and the communists such as Scargill realised they had to provoke a confrontation. So he set about winding up the poor miners who, already facing losing their jobs in a woefully broken industry supported by massive taxpayer input, he needed to riot. When any other business goes broke, its staff lose their jobs and though it is to be regretted, what should be, can be done? The Left claim, the State should pay. How is not explained.
So, under a proper, committed politician of stature the country prospered. The Left derided Yuppies, but who were Yuppies? The Left say they were selfish people, invented by Thatcher; the Me generation. But Yuppies were just people who had done well by working hard. Their ambition was not checked by taxes and rules and regulations, which is always the way of the Left. They were allowed to keep more of their money and spend it how they liked. Wealth redistribution based on effort not theft.
The Me generation had to wait for the vacuous Blair and his drive to become personally wealthy at our expense. He denied and derided ambition and insisted that if you want something you have to take it off someone else.
The Poll Tax was a bad idea in the way it was brought about, but it was a gift for the Left as it was particularly their supporters who had previously been able to dodge the tax man. Being accountable and being expected to contribute was such an outrageous idea to the Left apparently, that it became essential to riot and attack properties nearby. Attempting to murder police officers was also an acceptable political statement. This was how scared, how desperate the Left were to get rid of this clever, reliable, honest and committed politician heading a hated party. Hated by them, no one else.
It is a sign of how successful communist influences are within our institutions that today, people who know nothing about it, never experienced Thatcher's Britain, see her as someone who destroyed Britain and ruined lives. Schools and Universities ensured an endless stream of Left oriented propaganda was directed at the young to paint a picture that wasn't true, but a 'narrative' of the truth as the Left wanted it.
In short the Left were indignant that many of their supporters, traditional Labour voters had deserted them for the Conservatives, not as they saw it, because the Conservatives had made them and the country more successful, more wealthy, but because they were stupid and had been duped. Always the refuge of the Left when faced with their inevitable failure; to blame the people who were too stupid to realise the Utopia just around the corner, if only the Left could run everything with sky high taxes and very little private enterprise, if any. A Utopia like Albania.
What Thatcher believed was that, if someone worked hard they should be allowed to keep the vast majority of what they earned. Their efforts would make the country successful. As we have seen from the last bout of Labour government, what they offer is high taxes, reducing services, massive over-spending and growing national debt. People like Polly Toynbee who is rich and has several houses including one in Tuscany ranting about redistributing wealth through taxation, but not her wealth and companies acting immorally by not paying UK tax, without mentioning that her employer is one of those. With Thatcher you got opportunity, with Labour you get corruption and hypocrisy.
A great leader of this nation has died and we are a little diminished. It would be a fitting tribute to this conviction politician, if Tony Blair was convicted for the several crimes committed whilst lining his pockets as PM.
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