Farewell to Britain's Iron Lady.

I had a friend ask about my next blog and I struggled to think about what to write about, I guess because I normally don't think about it, I simply write and post. When I did think about it I lost the will to live, boring myself to the point where I was wondering whether this was it, the end of the line, the end of my imagination.
But on really thinking about it, it has been a quiet year and I don't really have too much to say. However, just watching the funeral of Baroness Thatcher, surely in death we are all entitled to some respect? She wasn't Hitler or Stalin and I am sure that whatever decisions she made were calculated to bring benefit to the most amount of people in this Country. She was strong at time when we needed strength, I wish we had someone with her strength now, to make the hard decisions and stop getting bogged down in superfluous policies that waste time and money....but I digress.
Seeing the maggots that have crawled out of the woodwork to protest a funeral is a truly sickening sight. To see youngsters that weren't old enough to remember her time in power and weren't even born during the social unrest, continuous strikes, bodies unburied and the vastly rising unemployment that heralded in a change in Government in 1979, protest a funeral, views clearly handed down by the misguided socialist values of idiot parents that pass on their bigoted views to their children, is painful and embarrassing to watch. On one hand my blood boils, on the other I can't help but feel the pain that political blindness has on the moron class, so ingrained in their views that the Unions of the '70's, those that did hold the Country to ransom for monetary gain, those that ran the UK into the ground and made us the laughing stock of the World, those that ensured that "Made in Britain" was a joke, those that betrayed this Country for money, criticise "Thatcherism" for its Capitalist ideals.
Glenda Jackson, a very hardcore socialist Labour MP, you remember her, ex-actress, took the opportunity, now that Margaret Thatcher is dead, to attack her on every level, as an MP, Prime Minister, Woman, etc. This would be Glenda Jackson that hasn't known poverty or real life in 40 odd years. It is very easy to have morals when you have money isn't it Glenda or George Galloway, aka the embarrassing cat man, you know, him of the ironically named "Respect" party.
I am really sickened that people take the opportunity to speak ill of the dead. If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing. Before you open your mouth to criticise the legacy of any politician, look first at what they inherited and then look at what they left, if they left Office and we had more than we started with, their legacy can only be good.
History is a very good measure of a person, I am sure that we won't be remembering Glenda Jackson or George Galloway but Margaret Thatcher was divisive and decisive, traits that I admire as it is the spirit of someone that will lead, not a follower.
David Cameron had said that she was "a Patriot Prime Minister" and that she was "a Great Briton". I hope that those that protest can now find some peace and the many more that agreed with her policies and admired her strength, enough to vote her in for 3 terms, can honour her death with some dignity and respect.
Without doubt she was a tough lady that ruled in the toughest of times. She transcended gender and showed all of us that a woman is as capable and often more so, than a man. If ever Womankind had a role model, she was it. She was harder, stronger and cleverer than the wilful and headstrong cabinet that she had around her. She fought tooth and nail to impose her will on this Country, trouncing the best the opposition had to offer, fighting battles at every turn and turning the UK into the best of Europe. Not every decision she made was great but she left the Country with money in the coffers, employment and manufacturing rising and Europe on its back foot regarding the UK. She brought us into the 1980's and for those of a certain age, the music was better under Thatcher was it not?

So finally, farewell to Britain's Iron Lady, Prime Minister, Politician, Chemist, Mother, Wife and Grocers Daughter, the end of a defining era for Britain.