Funny old world…there’s hardly a day when Maggie Thatcher isn’t blamed for everything that is wrong in the world…and indeed the BBC are pushing this tale hard on R4 and the web:
Miners’ strike: ‘Police fitted me up’
Curious that the BBC completely ignore this:
Margaret Thatcher judged to be best post-war prime minister by politicians of all parties
- Iron Lady valued for decisiveness, over traits such as honesty
- Tony Blair came third in poll of 158 MPs by University of London
- Of 13 post-war PMs, excluding David Cameron, Gordon Brown came last
Gordon Brown last….fancy that.
Maggie top; Brown bottom: Good…once more all seems right with the world.
May just be another of those things where what is is at odds with what the BBC feels it should be.
Expect some more website downtime as this gets addressed too.
“Brown bottom”
O Lordy, the nightmares I’m going to have now!
LOL, actually Brown Bottom it is even the non-official official name for the collapse in the gold price when dear dear Gordon did his thing.
I have spent the last 9 months telling old and young alike that I voted for Mrs T in 1979. My boss at the time when I worked in a Bank in the City, we were all decidedly working class by the way with very few exceptions in the trading room, he said if we don’t vote for Maggie then the country was finished. It seems that few know what a state Britain was in at the time. The BBC have done a fantastic job on our youth as the teens who are political seem to think that I should be arrested. The teacher, public service class continue to think that we should be living in a Michael Foot Socialist Paradise too. So I do despair. Glad though that Mrs T still wins the people’s vote for now.
It was a poll for all MP’s but only 158 replied. Point of order folks.
Plus, any poll that has Blair as third best is questionable at best. He’s got more blood on his hands than any other post-war prime minister and is directly responsible for the social divide, migrant influx and deteriorating education system.
Thirty years on: Beeboids’ main political line is that their support for Scargill trumps their opposition to ‘non-renewable’ coal.
Environmentalists occupying collieries – what a feast of entertainment that would have been.
Adding to this thread, it appears that Maggie was to blame for allowing the murderer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984, I quote:
The papers show that Mrs Thatcher personally approved the decision to allow 30 diplomats at the Libyan Embassy in London to go free in 1984, even though one was thought to have shot the police officer.”
The bBC, they hate us because we aren’t: Black,Brown,Gay or Islamic
INBBC editorial guideline: ‘don’t criticise Islamic jihadists’.
A BBC ‘half story’?
She actually believed any other course of action would have put British subjects in Libya at risk.
BBC-NUJ’s hindsight political line of ‘solidarity’ with NUM of 1984 (which later sacked Scargill), is apparently this:-
that British government should not have attempted to break the strike, but should have left the British people without electricity.
The other day they had from the archive releases a story about a surgeon writing to Maggie about stopping the army from using rubber bullets in N Ireland as they could be dangerous. Naturally it didn’t ask why this same person wasn’t asking the IRA to stop using real bullets!
It’s unsurprising that Thatcher and Atlee are one and two since they’re the only two prime ministers that have actually tried to improve the country. They had their successes and failures but their intentions were the same. I despair that Blair, who oversaw the biggest influx of economic migrants for the most cynical and political of reasons as opposed to any national benefit, not to mention taking us into two unpopular wars just to appease the US, could ever be considered anything other than a complete and total disaster for the country.