I spent most of my life outside of Scotland, away from my home town and family. We had to leave when I was young during the 81 recession because there was fuck all work and fuck all hope. I dont hate Thatcher because of some abstract idea of what she represents, I hate her because of the years living alone as an outside and often fucking close to absolute poverty. I hate her because an uncle of mine with good trade papers ended up delivering pizza for a couple of years to make ends meet. I hate her because my family ended up broken up and all over the world. Steel works, ship yards and coal mines that generations of our extended families had toiled in till it broke there health and all for a pittance were undergoing waves of redundancies when we left and generally all shut down a few years later.
Its far from all being Thatchers fault.... but that fucking horrible horrible hoor enjoyed it, reveled in the decimation of industrial Scotland
And you know what, she funded it on natural resources found of off our coast. The financial south east boomed while the working people who had built this country on back breaking labour, hours of toil and black lungs and white fingers were tossed on the scrap heap.
From the bottom of my Clydeside heart.
FUCK YOU MARGARET HILDA THATCHER.