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Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Thatcher's Legacy

The Tories howl like hungry wolves,
Who scent the weakness of the poor.
Relentless pressure is their way
To hound the pauper towards the grave.
If he makes the slightest slip,
They'll suspend his benefit.

No end to their vile calumny:
They take an isolated case
And wield it like a battle axe
To hack at inconvenient facts;
Leaving a narrative of hate
Of those less lucky than themselves.

In freedom's name they stifle choice:
Controlling all the radio waves,
And also all the printer's ink,
Excluding the dissenting voice,
To stop the people trying to think
Instead of being indoctrinated.

They deify the Grantham witch
Who only ever served the rich,
And tell us that we must admire
A leader who was just a liar,
Forgetting how much she was hated
By all those whose lives she blighted.

She and Reagan transformed the rich into the super-rich, and the working class into the underclass. 
The isolated case was notorious at the time of writing: some strange man who managed to kill some of his enormous brood by setting his house on fire. It was all part of a devious plot to get welfare money. The Chancellor pounced on this atypical case to suggest sweeping cuts to the welfare system.
They also tried to use Thatcher's funeral to transform her into some kind of national hero. We were supposed to forget how she was hunted from office by her own party. 
 On a similar topic: In praise of free enterprise

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