It wasnt just T shirts.It was a party pack,to be used at parties to celebrate her death when it happens.As already said,love her or loather her,its an affront to common decency,an the fact that stallS selling them at the TUC conference actually sold out before the wave of bad publicity prompted the TUC to ask the stallholders to stop selling them,says so much about people on the left of politics in the country these days.
I have sympathy with those,particularily in the north,who have nothing but scorn for her,(I detested her at the time),but to put things in their historical perspective - the country had been brought to its knees,to the point of ruin,by extreme left wing unions.
Governments were scared of them,the country was paralysed by strikes,they demanded (and got) 20% - 30% wage rises year oafter year,which caused rampant inflation,and ended up with the chancellor (Healey) going cap in hand to the world bank for a handout.
They deliberately took all of the great out of Britain,as they were on a mission to overthrow capitalism,and they came very close to succeeding.
The country was all but finished and someone had to have the backbone to do something.Much of what she did needed to be done and thank god she did it,but imo she was spiteful,and in some respects went further than she should have done,probably for the pure pleasure of it.
The result was the complete loss of the coal industry,shipbuilding etc.etc. and the country could really do with having those industries now. Imo,once she had beaten Scargill into humiliation she could have let it be known that she would carry on regardless if the other unions didnt come to their senses and moderate their actions,but instead she carrie on full steam ahead and left a legacy of wasted potential in the North which it has never really recovered from. She also destroyed the Tory vote (probably forever) in Northern England and Scotland.
Re the miners strike. No use blaming her for that debacle tbh.The miners were the proudest,most loyal trade unionists of them all,and that hateful moron Scargill used,abused and manipulated the miners for his own ego and political cause. Evan his own wife gave up on him in the end and left him to his own dillussions.
He destroyed the NUM and gave Thatcher the perfect opportunity to do what she did.If he had half a brain and a normal sized ago,the course of history would almost certainly been so much different.
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