cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12878654

A pensioner has been caught on CCTV apparently spraying the word ‘b******’ onto the plinth holding a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister.

Its installation was controversial and it has been egged and spat on – with some jokers even marking the statue as a public toilet on Google Maps.

  • @Jackthelad
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    -601 year ago

    How is Thatcher still triggering people so much?

    She stopped being PM 34 years ago and has been dead for 11 years.

    Get the fuck over it.

    • MrScottyTay
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      391 year ago

      A lot of the issues we have today stem from her privatisation and the north has never recovered. Her effect on the country has not stopped just because she’s no longer PM and ultimately dead.

      • @Jackthelad
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        -341 year ago

        Yes, it’s been so awful that no government has ever wanted to reverse it.

        • @[email protected]
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          171 year ago

          Well, a lot of the policy and austerities she set were “reversed” because they weren’t sustainable. However, once you normalize a political ideology and set a precedent, it’s hard to prevent it from happening again.

    • @GeneralEmergency
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      271 year ago

      Please for the love of god just do the bare minimum research. It’ll stop you looking like an ass.

    • @uienia
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      221 year ago

      Her actions are still negatively influencing peoples lives to this day. You should stop being such a bootlicker.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Should we just forget about all the villains of history and allow ourselves to continue being taken advantage of then?

      Forgetting what happened is why we vote in wankers again and again. Only the idiotic don’t learn.

    • ma11en
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      151 year ago

      It’s the 40yr anniversary of the miners strikes.

    • @grue
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      The real question is how are right-wingers still fetishizing Thatcher so much?

      When that ends, then resisting it can end.

      • @Jackthelad
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        -101 year ago

        That is also weird because we haven’t had anything close to Thatcherism since she left office.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          You appear to have missed the bit when a certain neo-Thatcherite PM fucked the economy to ribbons in mid-2022 then.

          • @Jackthelad
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            Lol, she wasn’t Thatcherite apart from dressing like her.

            She announced a public spending plan of £130 billion over two years. She was going to use the state to prop up business. Literally the opposite of Thatcher’s philosophy. Thatcher also wanted to control inflation and lower the deficit. Truss’s plans gave no consideration to any of that.