#Maggie Thatcher

[bottlesandbarricades]

Happy Maggie Thatcher dead day to all who celebrate. Stay losing and stay dead, you miserable old bat

[28whitepeonies]

My favourite tv interview of all time - happy tenth anniversary to those who celebrate x

[of-monsters-and-werewolves]

Brassed Off! doesn't pull any fucking punches about the immediate effects of the pit closures. It doesn't shy away from the reality of people's lives, whereby the fate of the workers was either death by coal or death by poverty. And yes, people absolutely did kill themselves as a result. It wasn't done out of care for the workers' safety or health; it wasn't done for environmental reasons, they didn't gi a shit.

Cannot emphasise enough that the ramifications are still felt to this day. Of course it has. How could it not? You take towns and villages structured around mining, whose primary income as a region was mining, and expect the North to not be completely fucked when you stop mining, whilst providing the equivalence of pittance as compensation and doing sod all to improve the region afterwards? Fuck off. The influence mining had on large parts of the North can't be understated; even fucking now 30-40 years later. You feel that effect everywhere - everything's built on former mines, there's symbols of it everywhere, stories told by everyone over a certain age. Poor health, poverty, Westminster not gi ing two shits oh that sounds familiar.

If you're not British and you've heard about Thatcher's policies about closing the mines, primarily in the North of England, and want a film that explores it, watch Brassed Off!

If you're British but from a middle class background or live in the South of England or elsewhere where mining was nowhere near as prevalant an industry and you're wondering how the North could possibly still be as fucked as it is, watch Brassed Off!

If you've ever wondered why workers doing a job as dangerous as coal mining were so pissed at the Tories for closing the pits, watch Brassed Off!

[maisietheweltoncow]

happy thatcher death day to all who celebrate

[animanightmate]

If I see one (1) person claiming that Margaret fucking Thatcher was a feminist icon, I will throw hands.

[jordanharrison05]

🦀🦀🦀 Thatcher died a decade ago 🦀🦀🦀

[poustannie]

Happy thatcher death day for all of us who celebrate ❤ can't believe its been a decade already, here's to a decade more babes x ☺🎉

[bottlesandbarricades]

Come on lads you loved celebrating Queen Liz popping her clogs, give old Maggie Thatcher a bit of that same energy

[28whitepeonies]

Happy Valentines everyone xoxo

[skywastherobot]

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[quantumblog]

'kinell

Fuck the fuck off Starmer and keep fucking off forever

[vendlandian]

Julia Summerville reports on Margaret Thatcher being named new General Secretary of the Soviet Union due to a clerical error.

[seachranaidhe]

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[jaffacakerebellion]

Shout out to the tories for keeping psychologists in a job by inventing mental illness. Buncha cunts