Margaret Thatcher's State Funeral was like the fact that Ayn Rand ended up on welfare.
But as for a museum dedicated to her, that would have been a satirical proposition of the very broadest and least sophisticated kind even a few short years ago.
Of course there ought not to be public money for it, since that would be altogether beyond satire.
Of course there ought not to be public money for it, since that would be altogether beyond satire.
Moreover, it is difficult to imagine where the Police would fail to ensure that the local authority refused to grant planning permission for the wretched thing.
After all, its security arrangements would have to be a nightmare, and an extremely costly nightmare at that.
After all, its security arrangements would have to be a nightmare, and an extremely costly nightmare at that.
But if it were indeed to be set up, anywhere in the world, then one trusts that it would feature statues of Sir Leon Brittan, Sir Jimmy Savile, Sir Cyril Smith, Sir Peter Morrison, Sir Laurens van der Post, and, towering over all of them, Alderman Alfred Roberts.
For the man to whom she professed to owe everything, although there was little closeness between them during her adult lifetime, was notorious locally as a toucher up of young girls. In this day and age, he would have been arrested.
For the man to whom she professed to owe everything, although there was little closeness between them during her adult lifetime, was notorious locally as a toucher up of young girls. In this day and age, he would have been arrested.
It is bizarre how far the Thatcherite-Ultras are trying and foist on us their narrative of recent history: Margaret Thatcher national heroine! I hope this is satirical although, having been a someone who was well and truly done over by that woman's policies, anything to do with her, including that disgraceful funeral, raises my hackles. I strongly suspect the Methodism of Alderman Roberts was that which saw poverty as a personal and moral failing values which were certainly reflected in her policies, even if as an unintended consequence, redistributed wealth from the poorest to the rich, certainly reflected this mindset. Saying that it is impossible not to recognize her historical significance but the attempt to raise this at best, highly divisive figure to that of say Churchill is absurd. A museum devoted to Clement Attlee or Lloyd George anyone (unless there already are which I am unaware of?) ? I am glad David mention the unsavoury company around Thatcher: a proper reassessment and ditching of the failed dogmas of that dreadful decade is long overdue.
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