Thatcher was not a saint so don't treat her like one

Meryl Streep has starred in a new film about Margaret Thatcher, it has received critical acclaim and recommendation.  However, it does not portray the real effects Thatcher had on the whole of British society, for the working classes and the poor she only reduced their options.  I would even say it is ironic an American took on the main role of Thatcher but it was probably only an American who didn't know, hadn't lived through it and could be hoodwinked would accept such a role.  I love to watch movies, but the scar tissue left after growing up through the Thatcher years runs deep.  The film is supposed to show a woman who is the vanguard of women's rights.  I can not believe any self preserving woman would look at Maggy as a role model.  For she has none of those female charms a self respecting man could ever fall for, there was no compassion for family life, no acknowledgement for the opportunities of children, education or the NHS.  Thatcher was in it because she could act and be a Sergeant major and everyone else had to take note.  Shame on this country for ever putting her there, and shame on us for not having a viable alternative.

Anyone would know she won the first election because she was the better alternative to a verbose Kinnock, he may have been OK as a Labour activist but at the ballot box it is public impact and impression which mattered.  Unfortunately Labour stand by their leaders even if they don't cut the cloth with public opinion.  Thatcher public backing because of her authoritarian air she carried the appearance of the wannabee middle classes in stereotype.  She duped them by her background of being a grocer's girl.  For me though she was and is in every way the personification of evil in politics.  She did one good thing, got Britain the biggest rebate ever from the Common Market.  Otherwise she stole from the poor, she stole ice creams from babies on hot summer days.  Meryl dear you have done yourself no great good by representing such a despicable person you have only shown ignorance and your fan base has certainly diminished by one.  I'm sure though there will be others who feel the same way on this matter.

It was because of Thatcher's deregulation of the financial sector today's recession has hit Britain even harder than it should of.  Regulations are there for a reason.  There was the boom of the 80s because of this deregulation and everybody began to purchase shares in amenities which were once state owned.  Amenities now such as the railways that have become a downtrodden mess, constantly looking for cash because their operators are constantly looking for profit.  The tax payer helps rail companies keep profits but had they never been privatised in the first place then the cost wouldn't be so great today.  Our very infrastructure is now built on decay and is ready to crumble.  Subsidies which would of paid for the basic improvement of infrastructure now go to pay the profit of fat cats.  Such is the legacy of Thatcher.

There was no doubt in the minds of the majority of people Thatcher would of lost the third election except for one branch of hope, which portrayed her as the most likely person to see the UK through.  On account of her Iron Lady temperament.  In short it was the Falklands.  If we were going to war it had to be someone who showed we were tough and could not be pushed about.  This is the absolute and sole reason she managed to win this last term.  With her cabinet constantly being reshuffled, if they did not agree or shape up to her way then there was only one other way, the highway.  Out.  She could not take dissension amongst her midst everyone had to suck up to her.  This ultimately lead to her own downfall and the downfall of the then Tory party.  Thank God for that.  Her hubris was limitless. She once even referred to herself using the royal "we,"  what she did was to impose an even greater class society.  The rich stayed rich or got even richer from taking over state owned and runed facilities, the poor became destitute.  This is not the actions of a saint and the sooner she is expunged from memory the better.