Hi Folks,
I like a lot of you I'm sure,am getting pretty browned off at the media's total re-writting of Margaret Thatcher's years as Prime Minister,i make no comment about her personally and i am sure her family are finding this all very stressful and i hate the idea of people suffering........BUT I am allowed,as this is still...i hope.......a democracy where you can air your views freely,I have been away on holiday for the last week and Monday it was announced that Mrs Thatcher had died,after that time thoughts of My Dad and his comrades in the Steel works have been looming large in my mind.......I admired them all so very much for standing up for what they believed in they were and still are my heroes.....and let it be known from one who's young eyes watched it all first hand that they weren't just beaten they were brutalised,and that was just a rehearsal for what was to come with the miners.........the suffering of the families was horrendous,i know all to well..we were one of them........all this has had no mention at all.......its all how wonderful she was..i don't share that view point at all as i was on the receiving end of her vicious policies and her use of our Police force as an army that were deployed to ensure her ideas were carried out to the letter.........how can you airbrush that?......although i concede i have disengaged with it all as of Friday as it was truly doing my head in so maybe i have missed any true balanced media coverage since then.....it is verging on lies the stuff i have heard.......The repulsive sight of the tories using her death to bash anyone who utters another view point is truly sickening to me.......and saying that anyone who disagrees is being disrespectful............surely the very act of using her passing as a bludgeon to bash the heads in of any dissenters is an act of disrespect??.......they think that if they shout loudest they will alter half a nations memories......once this is all over history will have its say and i for one want no part in this total crock of s**t version of it.....the truth as they say...will out..........lets see how the media are when any other figures of the time pass on.......say.....er.....Arthur Scargill for example........i wonder if they'll say"you can't be disrespectful about the dead"then......i can see the headlines now..........!!!!....My wife made the very relevant point too that if Thatcher tried to get into Oxford now,as a grocers daughter from Grantham with the situation as it is these days,she would stand no chance whatsoever.......
So,regarding the headline of this post,i wanted to pass on a message i got that i totally agree with from my mate Martin Wallace a filmmaker regarding the ding-dong tune in the charts,i will type it out verbatim so there's no editing from me........
"I downloaded ding-dong in order to protest at the rose tinted,airbrushed version of Thatcher that the establishment is painting.Now the BBC are trying to censor the voice of dissent.Don't give the Tories the chance to kick the working classes even harder.Please download DingDong this week and don't let a new generation be fooled into thinking that brutal,compassionless leadership is a good thing.Please download it,spread the word"
MW
I agree,its not about being childish or mocking anymore they are trying to censor it and not allow ANY other view point but their own to come across i think thats despicable,this censorship will affect history so that people in the future will look back and think this was some kind of golden era which it most certainly wasn't for most folks......it was if you were working in the city or a banker or a business man investing abroad but not if you were an ordinary person trying to get through your life decently working hard and maybe raising a family under her yoke and the bloody poll tax,all her thinking ushered in the shit we're in now,rampant greed and selfishness running riot through our daily lives,we turned from a proud nation of producers into nation of consumers under her stewardship and for that alone i will never forgive her and her party.......look at downloading that song as a vote of protest if you agree with me,and if you don't your obviously able to do so..........this is after all...........a free country...???????
best wishes and kind regards
Richard