Mrs Thatcher 50 years on: it’s a different country now but she still has lessons for Mrs Badenoch
The press and media have covered the story well, some better than others and some with a vitriol of bad taste.
I was a student at College in 1971 and like so many was a left leaning Liberal with a very strong emerging Green agenda. I went on a student demo to London to protest against Thatcher, who was then Minister of Education. She had stopped "school milk" and cut funding in certain moves.
Some years later, only a few, the lady made sense to me. In order "to do" things we needed a strong economy, then we could aspire to bigger and better lifestyles ...for the country and as individuals.
I joined the Party. She became PM. BRILLIANT. I was working in the private sector and in a business that involved MILLIONS in turnover.
I "got serious" in certain parts of politics. But I still retained some "caring" and equalitarian views. I also became a Rural activist.
One can never be all things to all people and you're damned if you do and damned if you don't so often when you try to do your best .....but the Thatcher direction suited me. Yes she did make some errors of judgment but she was forthright and LED.
Sadly her demise and departure was poor. The Tory party are good at lousy interaction and communication...when it suits...with too many "powers that be" that usually ignore Members and elected representatives that actually are in touch with reality!
John Major was actually a very good PM and a follow up to Thatcher, but too many "powers that be" let him down, so we got Blair and Brown.
Id love to think we have learnt from it all. WE HAVENT.
Ill always be a Tory and very Right Wing in some aspects like Law and Order but somewhat left leaning in a desire for fairness and equality ....but the Party is a "machine" that fails at present.
And the public know it and where I live they will vote Reform tomorrow.
My days are numbered as a Tory?
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