RUst in Peace!

Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of Great Britain throughout the 1980s, died on April 8, 2013.

While the right-wing corporate bankster elites and their henchmen are singing her praises for “saving Britain,” the working people at large know better about what she was: a greed-ridden hag who crushed unions and ruined industries without an afterthought as to the damage she caused.

When she came into office, getting rid of any program of social uplift was her main goal. She gutted the British coal and car industries, she took away food assistance from poor families, and consigned many to the unemployment rolls.

She handed Britain’s wealth to the banking industry and privatized government assets. She declared war on trade unions and almost crushed them.

She was a cold-hearted, rude, arrogant and vindictive. She exploited the Falklands war to ride into office for another term on the bodies of dead Argentine and British soldiers. Her handling of the Falklands crisis was idiotic and has soured relations with Argentina for decades since.

When she left office in 1990, malevolent Maggie was reviled by the British public because of years of gutting social welfare and rolling back the progressive gains made by British workers since the post-war period.

Her disastrous and anti-social misrule coincided with the ascendancy of another mediocrity across the Atlantic little Ronnie Reagan, who like Thatcher, destroyed unions, fired air traffic controllers, started gutting financial regulation and handed billions of dollars of taxpayer money to the Wall St. low-lifes.

Maggie and Ronnie were practically a husband and wife team, wreaking havoc simultaneously over two countries. Their coddling of bankster con-men and theft of public resources on behalf of the wealthy and corporations set the stage for the economic spasms the world has been suffering since then. 

All those Brits who today find themselves unemployed, broke, on the street, barely able to make ends meet have the Iron lady to thank for their present predicament, not socialism or communism.

When her death was announced, people throughout Britain sang and danced in the streets and to celebrate the death of the Iron Hag. They even held Thatcher is Dead parties.

Politicians are always asked what their legacy may be. Now we have an answer as to the legacy of Margaret Thatcher: a reviled woman who sold British workers out to the lowest bidder.

Most people don’t like her. This pretty much makes her a damn failure. Never mind what the millionaires and right-wing think tanks and their whores in the media say. Those people loved malignant Maggie because she was good for business. This is all that counts to the wealthy and the privileged business elites: that a “leader” is good for business. If being good for business ends up ruining society, so be it.

Lech Walesa, the Polish leader of the Solidarity trade union movement in communist Poland in the 1980s, praised Thatcher as helping to bring down communism. This claim is quite spacious. But what is Lech Walesa, a man who was a trade union leader who supposedly fought for workers rights, doing praising a woman who hated trade unions in Great Britain and fought them at the same time he was a trade union leader is very bizarre. It looks like Lech has been co-opted by the western capitalist culture class and has forgotten where he came from and how it used to be.

But to be fair to malignant Maggie, her buddy Little Ronnie across the pond was also guilty of the same hypocrisy: supporting the Polish Solidarity trade union while fighting unions in the US.

This one example shows that neither of these two leaders gave a damn about workers rights anywhere. They only supported trade union movements in countries whose governments were socialist and not controlled by the US. They exploited these trade unions to drive a wedge between the people and communism and ultimately used them to put pressure on and get rid of the capitalism-averse socialist systems.

Once those systems were gone, and capitalism established itself in those formerly communist lands, trade unions became a nuisance and a hindrance to free-market operations and were told to get out of the way, or else.

She also did not approve of government intervention in the economy. She saw it as a road to tyranny…except when the government intervention gave billions to the wealthy and the banks, that was a-ok for her!

She was also a buddy of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and thought Pol-Pot was a good guy.

Through her upbringing, she was a true conservative at heart. Read this:

A new academic study suggests people with conservative views are more likely to have three dark personality traits.
Dr. Bilal Ghandour specializes in personality disorders at Southeast Psych. Ghandour helps break the personality triad down.
“Machiavellianism… that’s deception. Psychopathy — If you think about the psychopath or sociopath… those individuals who have a disregard for the rights and feelings of other and no remorse. Narcissism — an inflated ego.” 1

 

Such is the true story of Maggie’s efforts to bring “freedom” and “democracy.”

In reality, the woman was a miserable failure and a divisive mean-spirited pro-corporate shill who left a trail of destruction to her cold grave. 

Her admirers will point to her support for the national healthcare system, fighting climate change, belief in evolution and being against the Eurozone.

But her predecessors turned their backs on this without so much as a whimper from the old lady.

She unfortunately infected future Prime Ministers, both Tory and New Labor with her corporate-friendly, anti-worker garbage policies and today Britain is worse off.

Thank you, Iron Lady, may you rust in peace!

1. http://maddsuspicions.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/margaret-thatcher-a-nasty-cow-typical-conservative/