Si1 Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 The assassination of Margaret Thatcher http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/19/hilary-mantel-short-story-assassination-margaret-thatcher Hilary Mantel: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher August 6th 1983 An exclusive short story by Hilary Mantel Mantel on Thatcher: 'I can still feel that boiling detestation' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Killing Tony Blair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 Killing Tony Blair. But can you ever see the right wing press publishing a short story dramatising the murder of one of their political opponents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Sorry to inform you, but Margaret Thatcher is already dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1929crash Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 The day after the Brighton bombing in 1984, I went down my local pub and there was not one dissenter from the view that 'it was a shame they didn't get the bitch.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StainlessSteelCat Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Thatcher is now an historical character, and there have been all kinds of alternative histories regarding other now dead figures. Fair game I suppose. The only thing perhaps a bit distasteful is that maybe more time should have been left so that those who loved her, like yourself - Si1 - and her family, have had sufficient time to grieve. Thatcher was such a divisive figure that I'll be surprised if much worse than a fictional account of her assassination doesn't appear in the years to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 The day after the Brighton bombing in 1984, I went down my local pub and there was not one dissenter from the view that 'it was a shame they didn't get the bitch.' There are similar emotions about Gordon brown, but it's still pathetic to formalise it in a newspaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 Thatcher is now an historical character, and there have been all kinds of alternative histories regarding other now dead figures. Fair game I suppose. The only thing perhaps a bit distasteful is that maybe more time should have been left so that those who loved her, like yourself - Si1 - and her family, have had sufficient time to grieve. Thatcher was such a divisive figure that I'll be surprised if much worse than a fictional account of her assassination doesn't appear in the years to come. Not about legitimately democratically elected leaders, surely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1929crash Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 There are similar emotions about Gordon brown, but it's still pathetic to formalise it in a newspaper I have met loads of people who think Broon is/was useless, but nobody who wanted to see him killed. Thatcher was unique in that respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpewLabour Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I have met loads of people who think Broon is/was useless, but nobody who wanted to see him killed. Thatcher was unique in that respect. Yup. Left-wingers are truly nasty, vindictive pieces of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Loo Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I have met loads of people who think Broon is/was useless, but nobody who wanted to see him killed. Thatcher was unique in that respect. Thats because Brown promised everlasting growth. Thatcher promised ever lasting work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Right-wing censorship of free speech by ridiculing someone else's position. Or whatever the ****** it's called, frankly I don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 Yup. Left-wingers are truly nasty, vindictive pieces of work. Pretty much Democratic process being optional depending on whether it serves the cause Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1929crash Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 It's funny this rubbish about left wingers being vindictive - the nastiest posts on this forum are from right wingers who get erections from seeing poor people die from diabetes when their benefits are stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 It's funny this rubbish about left wingers being vindictive - the nastiest posts on this forum are from right wingers who get erections from seeing poor people die from diabetes when their benefits are stopped. Linky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 She was successful and a lot of previous lifelong Labour voters liked what she was doing and changed allegiances, under her the Tory party ceased to be the toff party and became the party of the working man and woman. This left Labour with the benefits vote so fundamentally changed them as well. And nobody likes being forced to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1929crash Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 She was successful and a lot of previous lifelong Labour voters liked what she was doing and changed allegiances, under her the Tory party ceased to be the toff party and became the party of the working man and woman. This left Labour with the benefits vote so fundamentally changed them as well. And nobody likes being forced to change. I think being in a position where all the parties are basically the same is not change for the better - unless you are a committed Soviet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 I think being in a position where all the parties are basically the same is not change for the better - unless you are a committed Soviet. What? Got that Linky by the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I think being in a position where all the parties are basically the same is not change for the better - unless you are a committed Soviet. They are now, but they weren't in the 80s, Maggie took most of the working vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 They are now, but they weren't in the 80s, Maggie took most of the working vote. What he seems to be saying is that the last govt were actually Tories, I believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1929crash Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 What? Got that Linky by the way? You don't need a link for every comment - that is a symptom of the cretin mind bred by the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronyx Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I have met loads of people who think Broon is/was useless, but nobody who wanted to see him killed. Thatcher was unique in that respect. That's because the guy couldn't inspire any kind of high emotion in anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1929crash Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 That's because the guy couldn't inspire any kind of high emotion in anyone. That is so true - back in 2009 there was an internet cartoon video featruring Hugo Chavez, Obama - all glitzy and fun and jazz - and then Gordon Brown (sigh! yaw!) I can't find it now but it was so funny, and the link was sent to me by someone who lives in Portugal, thus demonstrating how his inability to inspire any emotion was globally known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpewLabour Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 It's funny this rubbish about left wingers being vindictive - the nastiest posts on this forum are from right wingers who get erections from seeing poor people die from diabetes when their benefits are stopped. So who was gloating? Can you provide the posts from this forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1929crash Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Here it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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