Don't expect me to be this civil when Cheney, W, or Trump are fatally ill

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17. I really loved the way the many British reacted to Thatcher's death

no crocodile tears from the people who had opposed her politics while she was prime minister. Glenda Jackson, then an M.P. gave an outstanding speech in the House of Commons about the damage Maggie had done. It would have been nice if just one Democrat had had the spine to stand up and speak the truth about Reagan when he died. (And just wait, they won't tell the truth about W or Trump when they go either.)


Glenda Jackson on her remarks about Thatcher:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/glenda-jackson-on-the-death-of-margaret-thatcher-i-had-to-speak-out-to-stop-history-being-re-written-8569392.html

...She was unrepentant about her attack on the “heinous social, economic and spiritual damage” which she said that Mrs Thatcher had wreaked upon the UK during her premiership, which caused uproar when she delivered it. Many Tories were particularly outraged by her comment: “The first Prime Minister of female gender, OK. But a woman? Not on my terms.”

But Ms Jackson insisted: “I was meticulous in not being personally rude. I didn’t know the woman: I did know the policies. I spoke up because history has been rewritten over the past week. I lived through the Thatcher period. I know what it was like. I know what it was like for my constituents. The reality bore no resemblance to what’s being presented.”

She said she was also struck by the way the tributes are being led by the Conservatives, when it was the Conservative leadership that sacked Margaret Thatcher in 1990. “That’s another thing – the manner of her going hasn’t been touched on. I find that bemusing,” she said.