10 things I hate about You (Thatcher, that's You)

I'll admit it was quite hard to narrow it down to just ten, but in the interests of space and time here is an eclectic mix of things I have gleaned from my MA reading (and are entirely irrelevent to my essay, so I'm getting my rant over with so I can be "impartial" in my coursework.)

1.In the month I was born unemployment reached 3 million for the first time since the Great Depression. (NB the ironic slogan "Labour Isn't Working")
2. In 1980 the Miners' Union had around 180,000 members. Now it has less than 5,000.
3. She allowed council tenants to buy their council houses BUT didn't replace them: Net capital spending on housing was cut by 52% in cash terms between 1979 and 1984.
4. She was the main reason David Shepherd never became Archbishop of Canterbury. (She refused to work with him, having criticised "Faith in the City" as being Marxist without even reading it.)
5. Having said the state should not intervene where people can look after themselves, she then introduced Section 28.
6. Under Thatcher the poorest fifth of families became poorer than they had been 10 years earlier.
7. She put VAT on the Live Aid record (created because the UK, then the world's third largest economy, could have single-handedly sorted out the crisis in Ethiopia but chose not to.)
8. She stopped our school milk (actually I hate milk, but it seems to be the one everyone else remembers.)
9. In a television interview, when asked who she would most like to be if she could be anyone in the world, she said she would be Mother Teresa (because obviously Thatcher's record with the underpriviledged and poverty-stricken was spotless.)
10. She is a heartless, miserable, selfish, conniving, arrogant, two-faced, patronising, sanctimonious cow.

But I'll tell you what made me laugh: I was in Waterstones looking for a biography, and Thatcher is next to Trotsky on the shelves.

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