The day that Thatcher died

The way Thatcher fucked this country is the reason it's still fucked up, rot in hell ......

For
The miners
The shipbuilders
The steelworkers
The old that froze to death
The old that couldn't afford food
For the thousands made homeless

For
The North
The disenfranchised black youth
The lost generation of young
The Hillsborough families
The men dead in a conflict designed to win her an election
The men traumatised from the Falklands War
For Northern Ireland

For
My Mam and Dad
My Grandparents
My brother
Every LGBT kid who committed suicide due to Section 28 in schools
The teachers
The victims of gaybashing which were never investigated due to pressure from her government
For the gay men stitched up and banged up for being gay

For
The women of Greenham Common who were beaten and had their kids forcibly taken into care for no reason
For the men and women assaulted in the Battle of the Beanfield
For the men and women consigned to the scrapheap
For the services that used to belong to all of us and now are badly run in the hands of the rich
For the country that used to stand for social justice and created the National Health Service
The mentally ill thrown out on the streets
The children abused in care homes and ignored or worse abused by some in her government
I celebrate the death of a woman who caused so much pain

[SIZE=2]1. She supported the retention of capital punishment

1. She destroyed the country's manufacturing industry
   
2. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws
   
3. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren ("Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher")
   
4. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)
   
5. She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration
   
6. She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)
   
7. She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed - the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million
   
8. She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands
   
9. The poll tax
   
10. She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad
    
11. She compared her "fight" against the miners to the Falklands War
    
12. She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we've been railing against for the last 5 years
    
13. She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS
    
14. She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits
    
15. She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA
    
16. She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control
    
17. Section 28
    
18. She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as "that grubby little terrorist"
    
19. She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers
    
20. She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population
    
21. She opposed the reunification of Germany
    
22. She invented Quangos
    
23. She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%
    
24. She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister
    
25. Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech
    
26. The Al Yamamah contract
    
27. She opposed the indictment of Chile's General Pinochet
    
28. Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike
    
29. She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%
    
30. BSE
    
31. She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession
    
32. She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process
    
33. She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa
    
34. Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin
    
35. Crime rates doubled under Thatcher
    
36. Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain - £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros - £1 billion
    
37. Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage
    
38. She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.
    
39. She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education
    
40. In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions
    
41. 21.9% inflation [/SIZE]