quite some time ago on this thread i explained that my hatred of thatcher was not just objective - i know that bliar (never a socialist -please stop this nonsense of calling him of the left or whatever) is in many ways worse - he betrayed the labour movement while she did what her side wanted. bliar's craven acceptance of george bush's iraq adventure was shameful and embarrassing for the uk. but she was embarrassing in a different way- there is something about her that got right under my skin - the superiority, the manifest ignorance, the loving of her own image -whipped up for her by a load of besotted tory-boy admen, her dismissal of anyone with a bit of brain or humanity as a useless 'wet' - i could (and occasionally do) go on. i don't think it is anything to do with her being a woman but maybe.....this hatred of mine is not entirely rational.
when she won the election against michael foot (who i rated as being intelligent, decent and humane) so decisively, i felt it said something very sad about our country. that his many qualities (and anyone with the capacity to consider more than one point of view (well...i might be for turning on that point, he mused.....))could be derided by a jeering mob of brain-dead, jingoistic bigots who seemed to be (and have remained) in a majority...