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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)And no, none of us is perfect, but it's one thing not to be perfect, and another to turn one's country's policies way to the right; to promote a culture of greed, of harshness, of kicking people when they're down; to destroy most of a country's industrial base, throwing thousands out of work, destroying communities, and making us largely dependent on the financial industry (fastforward to 2008, and did you hear the eggs in our one basket go SMASH?)
Do you forgive Reagan? Will you forgive Bush and Cheney?
And the point is that those who won't let her spirit rest are first and foremost those on the Right who are treating her as the great model for what a leader should be, and are promoting and extending her policies and viewpoints about society! As long as people still think that she made Britain great again; that 'sado-monetarism' (to quote a moderate of her own party); cutting public services and throwing people on the dole and then cutting the dole, etc; denying workers the right to union representation; privatizing everything that moves; throwing many into poverty and many more into fear of poverty that makes a mockery of her vaunted 'freedom' - so long as people are actively promoting such ideology as a Good Thing, then her spirit is NOT resting and is very active. And as long as it is, I will not shut up about opposing it.
This is not a long-ago crime that perhaps one might now forgive and forget; it is an ongoing crime, still being proudly carried out in her name.
I will not rejoice at her death, because in a sense she is not truly dead. As I wrote several years ago in a bitter parody of 'Joe Hill':
'From Major down to Blair and Brown;
From London to D.C.;
Where governments still crush the poor,
You'll there find Maggie T.!'
And in this respect Cameron, Osborne et al are keeping her spirit alive far more than Brown did!