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In reply to the discussion: President Obama hails Thatcher as "great champion of freedom." [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Ask any Briton of colour who was harassed under the all-but-white supremacist immigration and policing policies Thatcher imposed(and that "New Labour" to its eternal disgrace, needlessly continued).
Ask any grieving British parent whose LGBT child committed suicide in the Eighties because the school counsellors were forbidden to do anything to reassure that child that she or he was "normal" or "all right" even though they'd been born LGBT, as a result of that miserable harridan's hateful "Section 28" policy forbidding school or public mental health authorities from treating LGBT people with compassion and understanding how much "freedom" the Iron Lady allowed THEIR child to have a life.
Ask anyone who spent years sleeping rough on the streets of London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester or any other large UK city due to Mag The Knife's brutal cuts in housing benefit how much "freedom" they had...if you can find any who didn't die of pneumonia.
Ask anyone in that era who protested for peace or picketed in defense of the rights of working people to a decent wage, decent working conditions and a life built on dignity and respect how much "freedom" they were given to carry on their legitimate and honourable campaigns for human decency.
Ask any Traveller who was hounded from town to town by brutal Tory local councils how much "freedom" they had under Thatcherism.
Ask. I DARE you.