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Thread #146309 Message #3390970
Posted By: Jim Carroll
16-Aug-12 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
Subject: RE: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
DRACUMAG (1985)
Ewan MacColl
Margaret Thatcher's reign can either be dated from 1975 when she was first elected leader of the Tory Party or from 1979 when she became Prime Minister. The latter was heralded as a great achievement: she was the first female leader of Britain. Thatcherism, however, was characterised by aggressive nationalism abroad and divisive economic policies at home. Put crudely, under Thatcher the rich got richer (advantageous tax breaks, privatisation of public utilities and services, etc.) and the poor got poorer (vicious education cuts, benefits kept low or changed or scrapped, continual attacks on trades unions, etc). She favoured authoritarian centralised government, as was witnessed by her abolition of the Greater London Council and other Metropolitan authorities. She also insisted on centralised personal power and was known for consistent marginalisation and callous exploitation of her own cabinet ministers. She was often depicted in the media as a female Dracula.
There's a bloke in Transylvania who's said to have a mania,
He's under the impression he's a bat. (A vampire bat!)
But this feller they call Dracula's not nearly so spectacular
At sucking blood and draining off the fat
As you know who,
You surely do!
She's working up an appetite for you.
She'll make a stew,
A barbecue—
She'll eat you, bones and all, before she's through.
She doesn't think that your old granny should be sitting on her fanny;
Sheltered housing is a luxury, she feels. (A luxury we can't afford.)
It's a drain on our resources and it doesn't help the forces,
For it's missiles that we need not Meals on Wheels.
And you know what?
It's got to stop!
Old people should be taken out and shot.
Shoot the lot, | Stop the rot—
Welfare's just another bolshie plot!
When she rises from her coffin she's surrounded by her boffins,
By her ministers they call "the living dead." (Allgood chaps, really.)
And they sing their merry ditty as they fly above the city,
Yes, and Countess Thatcheratoo's at their head.
So watch your step!
They're very good
At tearing out a throat to drink the blood.
Their appetite
Is very great—
Thev'll eat you in the interests of state.
She is filled with indignation at the thought of education
Being subsidised and bolstered by the rates. (It just isn't fair!)
Nursery schools and swimming classes, leisure-centres for the masses:
Yes, and dustbins emptied free the lady hates.
Do you know why?
Because they're dopes!
(They proved it when they handed me their votes.)
So cap the rates
And cut their throats!
(Time to bring back flogging and the rope.)
When Count Dracula is lurkin' in the shadows he's a-workin'.
One by one his victims fall to tooth and claw.
But the lady's had instruction in the use of mass-production
And she sucks your blood protected by the law. (Splendid law!)
So be alert,
And watch your back!
It's when you least suspect her she'll attack.
Don't let her fit
You with a cap—
Her policies are just a load of crap!
So—when you hear the vampires yappin' with their talk aboutrate-cappin'
Then it's time to load your double-barrelled gun.
When the councils they are sacking and communities are cracking
Then it's time to send them back from where they come.
And drive a dart
Right through the part
Where there would be a heart if she'd a heart.
Now don't delay!
Do it today!
To deal with vampires it's the only way.