Monday, April 08, 2013

THATCHER

 Margaret Thatcher has died at the age of 87.













That's for today - I said THIS in January 2012.

10 comments:

Vanilla Rose said...

Been busily trying to avoid singing, "Ding dong, the witch is dead" on the grounds it is (a) bad taste in general and (b) offensive to pagans to call Thatcher a witch.

On the other hand, such a catchy song, and once you see people posting links to it, or just that particular line ...

Twilight said...

Vanilla Rose - Quite so!
We might just sing in a whisper.....
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low Let them know....
;-)


Anonymous said...

"Within 48 hours of the former Prime Minister’s death, the song has entered the official UK chart at number 10."

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead-closer-to-number-one-spot-as-it-reaches-midweek-top-ten-following-margaret-thatchers-death-8566042.html

Twilight said...

Anonymous ~~ Goody! :-)
Wonder if it'll make Number One by the weekend? That'd be a turn up for the books!

JD said...

David Lindsay sums her up perfectly with this line-

"the middle classes were transformed from people like her father into people like her son."

http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/get-over-her.html

Twilight said...

JD ~~ Thanks for the link - it's an excellent piece.

Towards the end of it he wrote:She has died having already been out of office for twice as long as she was in. People have already voted in a General Election who were not born when she left.

That's something I hadn't quite appreciated, so deep was the feeling I held against her policies that it has remained clear and strong over all these years....Yet other PMs, good and not so good, have come and gone with hardly any memories left in my mem-bank. She left a mark for sure. :-(

Anonymous said...

What has surprised me is the injunction by her supporters to desist from criticism of her regime: both impossible and unlikely regarding any political figure IMO. Analysis of her chart by many astrologers has highlighted her ability to divide (and conquer?!) and it appears she will continue to generate extreme reactions on either end of the political spectrum. One point missing from much of the discussion is the fact that she was not a dictator and did not act alone nor was she unsupported.
The entire planet is still in the throes of the handiwork she and Reagan instigated. Personally, it was Ian Jacks' piece in Granta 25 years ago that broke this camel's back. Reprised here -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/08/northernireland

Twilight said...

Anonymous (@11.38 AM)

She didn't act alone, of course, but she certainly came over as more dictatorial than most other PM's I recall. I used to get the impression that, in her mid-years as PM, her cabinet members were afraid of her.

Thanks for the link. Those were dark times indeed. I read another Guardian link today, too

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/09/thatcher-legacy-bitterness-north-ireland

Commenters to that piece are still bitterly divided today - I had to stop reading their words. Living through it all back then (and with a companion who was born in NI was enough!)

R J Adams said...

Like you, I preferred not to comment, but found it hard. (Well, you know me!)

;-)

Twilight said...

RJ Adams ~~~ Well, at least we didn't hold a party and dance in the streets RJ - that's restraint ain't it?