This is how the British working class celebrated Margaret Thatcher's death: workers took to the streets to toast with champagne.
Few know that Margaret Thatcher became famous with the nickname "The Milk Thief." In British state schools, since 1945, children had been given free cups of milk as breakfast... and the first thing that viper Thatcher did, as Minister of Education in 1970, was to cut funding for the education system and ban free breakfast in schools.
Margaret Thatcher was a friend of the genocidal Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, whom she publicly defended and called for the release of. She supported the Taliban in Afghanistan(during their war against the Soviets) and even backed the racist apartheid system in South Africa.
Thatcher declared war on the working class and privatized healthcare, education, and public industry on a record scale.... She was called "The Robin Hood of capital," the antithesis of the original, because she stole from the poor to give to the rich.
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I still remember where I was when I heard she died.
I was in the university gym doing some strength training. My (wired) earbuds had just given up the ghost that morning so I was stuck listening to the gym radio. I was at the top of a deadlift when the radio station interrupted the music to make the announcement.
I grinned the biggest grin, finished my set, tidied the weights away, got showered/changed, and then proceeded to go to the pub. I'm not a big drinker but there was a local pub that had a collection jar intended for the day of Thatcher's death. The vibe was that every so often when you were in the pub you tossed in a few quid or a fiver or something, and then when Thatcher died all the drinks were paid for by the collection until it ran out. I'd tossed a few fivers in, about one every time I'd visited the pub.
It lasted a good few days if I recall, even with a heavy patronage. The atmosphere was brilliant.
One of the kindest things the Irish ever did for Britain was try to kill Thatcher and it's a damn shame they missed.
I remember reading a Thatcher quote where she said of Gorbachev: "we can do business with him".
IIRC one of her nicknames in the States was "Reagan in a dress/skirt".
Genuinely evil wretch of a woman; may she boil in the urine lakes of Hell.
I vividly remember my dad telling me about a guy being interviewed when she died saying "I couldn't be happier she's dead, I lost everything because of her". Rest in piss Thatcher.
This is the person who referred to Nelson Mandela as "that awful terrorist.". People here seem to like her no nonsense and scathing responses, even when it was very very clear that voting for her made them much worse. Not a single one of her fiscal or social promises ever came to positive fruition, unless you include making insiders very, very rich.
