Margaret Thatcher dies of stroke aged 87

[wfgodot]

Tell it Moz:

Morrissey blasts former PM as "barbaric" just hours after her death (Mirror)

 

[Gardenlady]

Tell it Moz:

Morrissey blasts former PM as "barbaric" just hours after her death (Mirror)

Brilliant! Bless him, lol. :heartluv:

Maybe we should have a Morrisey appreciation thread soon!

 

[wfgodot]

Brilliant! Bless him, lol. :heartluv:

Maybe we should have a Morrisey appreciation thread soon!

"How Soon Is Now?" as the title of the Smiths song says. (YouTube)

 

[ebonydarkness]

https://twitter.com/whoisthatcher (Warning: foul language.)

Quite a few Twitter users, even ones from the UK, express their ignorance over the existence of Margaret Thatcher. I live in a different country and I'm young. In fact I was born after she left office. But at least I'm aware of the bare basic facts such as her being the UK's first and only female Prime Minister, her terms covering the 1980s, and being a member of the Conservative Party.

 

[wfgodot]

My own Twitter feed was rather boisterous. About half of my follows (and followers) are UK, and everyone knew exactly who she was and exactly when, figuratively, they'd met her. Ah! the memories. Not one of them happy. Support for a regime practicing apartheid, the wish for the death of Nelson Mandela, that wonderful friendship with Augusto Pinochet. Northern Ireland, the coal strike, Hillsborough. Thatcher the Milk Snatcher. All this and more. Privatise her funeral! Bury her under a car park in Leicester! That sort of thing. 'Twas wondrous to behold.

 

[wfgodot]

Might be just Twitter myth, but it's said that the hashtag #nowthatchersdead was misread by some tweeters, who mistook it for Now That Cher's Dead and began to post 140-character-count mini-eulogies.

 

[Perodicticus potto]

In all the accolades for Thatcher that I've been reading today, I noticed something funny. All the social conservatives heaping praise on her never mention that she voted to decriminalize homosexuality and to legalize abortion.

I guess "pro-lifers" are willing to overlook that little detailif someone is willing to lower their taxes (at the expense of the working class and poor, I might add). :crazy:

She also went against the wishes of her own party to start a needle exchange for drug addicts.

 

[wfgodot]

Moz again, fresh this time:

A Morrissey representative confirms that the singer's strongly-worded criticisms of Margaret Thatcher, which surfaced after news of her death yesterday, came from an old interview in an issue of Loaded magazine. (The fan website Morrissey-Solo first noticed this). But the old quotes fall pretty much in line with a new statement Morrissey has released.
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and that statement at pitchfork.com link below:

Morrissey Releases New Statement on Margaret Thatcher (Yesterday's Was From an Old Interview)

 

[Gardenlady]

She also went against the wishes of her own party to start a needle exchange for drug addicts.

Time to check if hell has frozen over.. That makes THREE good things I can now say that Thatcher did? :what:

Incidentally, that puts her three ahead of her pal Reagan. I've been trying to think of anything he did that I could call "good", and I've yet to come up with a single one.

 

[wfgodot]

Time to check if hell has frozen over.. That makes THREE good things I can now say that Thatcher did? :what:

Incidentally, that puts her three ahead of her pal Reagan. I've been trying to think of anything he did that I could call "good", and I've yet to come up with a single one.

Well, Reagan showed good rapport with Bonzo the chimp in that movie.

Oh. You mean WHILE he was president??

Can't think of a thing.

Let's put him on here, reunited with Thatcher one last time.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDD7LpsW6p8"]Bonzo Goes to Bitburg- Ramones Lyrics - YouTube[/ame]

 

[wfgodot]

This is a readable Russell Brand piece in The Guardian.

This is a vitriolic George Galloway entry on his blog at Wordpress.

This is a look at Thatcher's drug policy, from opendemocracy.net

 

[Gardenlady]

This is a readable Russell Brand piece in The Guardian.

This is a vitriolic George Galloway entry on his blog at Wordpress.

This is a look at Thatcher's drug policy, from opendemocracy.net

From the Brand piece, a great and true observation:

She is an icon of individualism, not of feminism.

 

[Gardenlady]

Well, Reagan showed good rapport with Bonzo the chimp in that movie.

Oh. You mean WHILE he was president??

Can't think of a thing.

:floorlaugh:

 

[Jacie Estes]

From the Brand piece, a great and true observation:

Love the John Lennon analogy and the falling shards comment. Russell Brand...sexy and smart.

 

[wfgodot]

That Russell Brand thing - I wasn't a fan before but really. That's good writing. And he still has time to be funny.

In the Meryl Streep film, The Iron Lady, it's the scenes of domesticity that appear most absurd. Knocking up a flan for Denis or helping Carol with her algebra or Mark with his gun-running, are jarring distractions from the main narrative; woman as warrior queen.

Mark with his gun-running! I really did laugh out loud.

Fan made then. If I still taught I'd use that piece in the classroom as an essay example.

 

[badhorsie]

She also went against the wishes of her own party to start a needle exchange for drug addicts.

That was one of he good things. Harm reduction. I approve

 

[jellybeanz]

That Russell Brand piece is outstanding!!

Some highlights .............

......with her General Zodd stare and coldly condemning the IRA. And the miners. And the single mums. The dockers. The poll-tax rioters. The Brixton rioters, the Argentinians, teachers; everyone actually.

......my early apathy and indifference are a result of what Thatcher deliberately engendered, the idea that "there is no such thing as society", that we are alone on our journey through life, solitary atoms of consciousness.

......Norman Tebbit, one of Thatcher's acolytes and fellow "Munsters evacuee", said when the National Union of Mineworkers eventually succumbed to the military onslaught and starvation over which she presided: "We didn't just break the strike, we broke the spell." The spell he was referring to is the unseen bond that connects us all and prevents us from being subjugated by tyranny. The spell of community.

....... Barack Obama, interestingly, said in his statement that she had "broken the glass ceiling for other women". Only in the sense that all the women beneath her were blinded by falling shards. She is an icon of individualism, not of feminism.

.......All of us that grew up under Thatcher were taught that it is good to be selfish, that other people's pain is not your problem, that pain is in fact a weakness and suffering is deserved and shameful. Perhaps there is resentment because the clemency and respect that are being mawkishly displayed now by some and haughtily demanded of the rest of us at the impending, solemn ceremonial funeral, are values that her government and policies sought to annihilate.

.......Her refusal to stand against apartheid, her civil war against the unions, her aggression towards our neighbours in Ireland and a taxation system that was devised in the dark ages, the bombing of a retreating ship – it's just not British.


PS - I love Moz and The Smiths.

 

[jellybeanz]

Re the PS on my previous post, I meant to add that I fully expected Morrissey to come out with what he did, but not so much Brand.

Glenda Jackson had her say in Parliament today. Well said Glenda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XDtClJYJBj8

 

[jellybeanz]

itunes top ten in the UK. Ding dong the witch is dead rises to No2

https://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10songs.html

 

[Gardenlady]

:lol:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis...08/margaret-thatcher-death-steve-bell-cartoon