Maggie's Gone

Ok,having been raised outside of Britain I grew up idolizing Margaret Thatcher. She was a fighter for freedom, individualism, hard working ethic and free enterprise. I moved to Britain almost 7 years ago and since then I encountered many varying opinions, some critical, and stories about MT. But it wasn't until I moved to the north of England that I learned of the impact her policies had on certain communities. So I am in two minds. On the one hand I admire her for reducing the inflation from 25% to 3.5%, shutting down inefficient state monolith industries and encouraging individual entrepreneurship, fighting for the freedom from communism in Eastern Europe and facing up to the Argentinian Navy to keep the Falklands British; on the other hand, she seemed not to care about what really happened to the communities which were supported by the industries she had closed down. This put thousands of miners and steel workers out of work. Then there was making Scotland the testing ground for te Poll Tax, and her lack of support for equal rights of the LGTB community. I still don't think dancing and drinking champagne on the streets is right though. Too many of those people are simply young anarchists who hate the so called "establishment" and see conspiracy theories everywhere. They hate the rule of law where one has to take responsibility for own actions, they expect the state to be a nanny, they hate any authority and they have no respect for anyone who by their hard work made a little bit of money. They call themselves "socialists" but they are closer to fascists. Full of hate, negativity and criticism, instead of ideas of how to make things better. The struggle for equality in society has been hijacked by the law-hating anarchist. The reports from street parties feature people who look to be born in the late 80s and the 90s, people whose lives were never directly affected by her policies, people who only seek to feed their own ego, their own need to be seen as compassionate and caring, attempting to appease their conscience. Sad.