Our babbling brook of
bullshit, the media, is in full spate at the moment, gurgling through
its foetid channels is the stench of Thatcher. The praises ring loud
and clear, they do however allow a little criticism to show its face,
just to try to give the impression of balanced journalism. Balanced
it is not. What has become known as the “Thatcherite” era, was an
era of war, but it is never detailed like war, the deaths and
injuries were not noted. In the case of the Belgrano, a ship
needlessly torpedoed by a UK submarine, killing 323, many of them
young sea cadets, it was detailed. A coal mine was shut, hit by an
ideological missile, a town/village dies, the deaths and injuries are
not detailed. In the case of the Belgrano, the deaths were more or
less instantaneous, in the case of the destroyed coal mine, steel
works, shipyard, the deaths and injures took place much more slowly,
in some cases over years. But deaths and injures there were, those
who fired that ideological missile have blood on their hands.
During
this “Thatcherite” war era, there were many such ideological
missiles fired at towns, villages and cities across the country, the
resultant deaths and injuries were never detailed. Deaths from
stress, addiction, overdoses, suicide and mental and physical
problems, plus destroyed future generations, faced with poverty and
long term unemployment, all the direct result of those ideological
missiles fired with callous calculating coldness by those who had
everything to gain and nothing to lose from the resultant war
carnage. The “Thatcherite” era was a bloody era, for the ordinary
people of this country, it was an all out war on working class
communities and institutions, nowhere was there any gain in it for
those casualties of the ideological missiles fired.
Millions across
the country suffered as the financial Mafia pushed ahead with their
grand plan, Thatcher was merely the badge that they wore, she was
their public face. Today that same grand plan is still being pushed,
the rape, plundering and pillage of all public assets, grinding down
of the ordinary people, preparing the correct recipe for corporate
greed to take control of everything. Yes, spit venom at the image of
a woman who symbolised an ideological plan, but she didn't write that
plan, she didn't detail the targets, she was just simply put in the
driving seat with her satnav already set. Yes she done it with force
and pleasure, but remember, she has gone, but the plan is still in
place and proceeding at an alarming pace.
