I feel very ambivalent about where we are today
We are being encouraged to celebrate the life of Maggie Hilda Thatcher who was born in the same year as my father.
He was the son of a union organiser in West Wales who stood up for the poorest and least able.
A local landlord spoke out against universal education as it would create a shortage of people to labour in his fields
I wonder if she acquired a hatred and contempt of working people in her fathers shop.
Actually she was just an actor on a stage so we should not hate her for what she did.
She got swept up in a process.
It gave us all the social housing sold off - crisis in housing today.
Deregulation of the banks - enough said
She inherited pretty much full employment but concealed her catastrophic mismanagement by pushing people on to sickness benefits - ohh and now we seem to have lots of people who could work claiming sickness benefit? Hoo humm
Of course there need to be jobs there for them to apply for - oops.
She sold our socially provided utilities into the free market at a fraction of their value.
And we bought into the "easy money" culture.
She changed socially provided homes into assets you bought way under the market price
And we bought into that "easy money" culture too
What she did was change us from people who looked out for each other to people who looked out for ourselves
Made us clones of them who won't pay for an NHS they won't use or a benefit scheme they will never need.
Take the whole country back a century and more.
And we are supposed to rejoice??
Carry on you lot.
We are being encouraged to celebrate the life of Maggie Hilda Thatcher who was born in the same year as my father.
He was the son of a union organiser in West Wales who stood up for the poorest and least able.
A local landlord spoke out against universal education as it would create a shortage of people to labour in his fields
I wonder if she acquired a hatred and contempt of working people in her fathers shop.
Actually she was just an actor on a stage so we should not hate her for what she did.
She got swept up in a process.
It gave us all the social housing sold off - crisis in housing today.
Deregulation of the banks - enough said
She inherited pretty much full employment but concealed her catastrophic mismanagement by pushing people on to sickness benefits - ohh and now we seem to have lots of people who could work claiming sickness benefit? Hoo humm
Of course there need to be jobs there for them to apply for - oops.
She sold our socially provided utilities into the free market at a fraction of their value.
And we bought into the "easy money" culture.
She changed socially provided homes into assets you bought way under the market price
And we bought into that "easy money" culture too
What she did was change us from people who looked out for each other to people who looked out for ourselves
Made us clones of them who won't pay for an NHS they won't use or a benefit scheme they will never need.
Take the whole country back a century and more.
And we are supposed to rejoice??
Carry on you lot.
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1 comment:
To be fair (you don't know me, I'm just a lurker. I think your blog is good) she was voted for by a lot of people to do what she did. She didn't do it alone. And now we have another lot of much the same in power and they were voted for too. And in between there hasn't been much hopeful to look back on unless you consider invading Iraq and other iniquities to be good things.
I have a 20 year old son, kind and strong and fairly bright, a bit shy and rough around the edges. All he wants is to be able to work for his living. It's not happening. It makes me sick. Where's the hope? Have you got any in Wales? I'm counting down to the next election and I wish someone would step up as strong as poor old Maggie but a different colour. That would be good.
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