“Margaret Thatcher was an absolute catastrophe for the social well being of this country …”

Thank God for Polly Toynbee today amid the stench of hagiographic distortion of Thatcher and her legacy. Her legacy included Tony Blair and gives us the current Cameron war on the poor. Many of us who had the misfortune to live under her experience a near PTSD at the memory of it. It was brutal, relentless and shameful. Wapping, The Miners Strike, The Hunger Strikers, Brixton, Toxteth, Section 28, The Poll Tax the list is endless. That Obama could use the words champion of freedom and liberty indicate he’s either banged his head or needs to fire his speech writer. Although an American friend sent me a note today explaining “she was a hero in the US because we like fascists”

At the 5 minute mark in this video Polly Toynbee sums it up: especially poignant when she issues the words “from which we’ve never recovered”

also read this piece if you are tired of the kettle banging use of words like inspiration and the ludicrous assertion she saved Britain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-etiquette