"Margaret Thatcher was the most divisive and destructive Prime Minister of modern times," he wrote. "Remember, she called Mandela a terrorist and took tea with the torturer and murderer Pinochet."
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Let me say that I think this perfectly fair comment, and cogently expressed, even though I would obviously not agree to any great extent with its evaluations. It is a proper and courteous statement of Mr Loach's view. Be it noted that he has expressed it without the use of any of that ill-expressed obloquy and abusive terminology of the sort which has marred and disgraced and degraded so many contributions to the thread.

~M~