tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post1489709424605332367..comments2024-03-24T09:13:28.758+00:00Comments on The Plashing Vole: Mocking the WeakThe Plashing Volehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021407602157515927noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-32515065850832703362013-04-10T20:06:40.724+01:002013-04-10T20:06:40.724+01:00There were two Thatchers, maybe more. The private ...There were two Thatchers, maybe more. The private Thatcher, the human being (she was you know), who died yesterday and is mourned by her family, the one none of us could ever know. I can't find any sadness or joy for this event. I didn't know her. I think it's bonkers to celebrate her death.<br /><br />Then there's the public Thatcher, the extraordinary colossus that dominated the eighties, that no-one on the left or right could match. That's the one that died, in 1990. That was the time for brief celebration, but sadly the ghost of that Thatcher lives on, in the premiership of Major, Blair, Brown. How can you celebrate when even Labour politicians channel the ghost of Mrs. T? It's a mark of the intellectual vacuum in party politics for the last twenty years. No ideas of your own? got a country to run? Just do a Thatcher. The really sad thing is, Labour PMs do Thatch better than Tory ones. Adamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-50130888418672230412013-04-09T08:59:58.467+01:002013-04-09T08:59:58.467+01:00Thank you for expressing so well how I, and many o...Thank you for expressing so well how I, and many others, are feeling at this moment.<br /><br />I have to admit, I am struggling a little. "Ding Dong, the witch is dead" is going around in my head, but I do feel sympathy for the loss that her family must be feeling. <br /><br />On balance, however, the loss of the Thatcher family, while personal and devastating, is nowhere near the loss of the (ex) miners I heard interviewed on the radio this morning, whose community has never recovered from the strike. <br /><br />The damage that Thatcherism did is unquantifiable, but long lasting, far reaching, and devastating.oldgirlatunihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17538521335250860191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-58072097690822915072013-04-08T23:34:40.655+01:002013-04-08T23:34:40.655+01:00And yet, for all that, I can't bring myself to...And yet, for all that, I can't bring myself to hate the woman anymore. Not after her Alzheimer's got to the point where if you asked her who she was, where she was and what she was doing she'd be lucky to get one out of three right. Jakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-25708477382693587472013-04-08T20:14:09.436+01:002013-04-08T20:14:09.436+01:00Yes, this, all of this. Yes, this, all of this. Gideon Nisbetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-28732473032093899242013-04-08T17:12:26.493+01:002013-04-08T17:12:26.493+01:00Thank you for articulating what I've been feel...Thank you for articulating what I've been feeling.JoVEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16680602039278597976noreply@blogger.com