Morrissey condemns Margaret Thatcher

Ira Agting

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Morrissey releases a scathing essay attacking the late Margaret Thatcher

VIVA HATE. No condolences from Morrissey. Photo from the Morrissey Official Facebook page

MANILA, Philippines – In contrast to the outpour of praise after the recent passing of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, musician Morrissey released a scathing essay on the “Iron Lady” published in The Daily Beast

READ: Thatcher funeral on April 17

The former frontman of defunct band The Smiths gave a whole new connotation to the term “Iron Lady” by bashing her political career and branding her as “barbaric” and inhumane, among other intense indictments. He ends on a scornful note, describing Thatcher as a “terror without an atom of humanity.”

The essay is as follows:

Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others.

Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the Ivory Trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own Cabinet booted her out. She gave the order to blow up The Belgrano even though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone — and was sailing AWAY from the islands! When the young Argentinean boys aboard The Belgrano had suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs up sign for the British press.

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Iron? No. Barbaric? Yes. She hated feminists even though it was largely due to the progression of the women’s movement that the British people allowed themselves to accept that a Prime Minister could actually be female. But because of Thatcher, there will never again be another woman in power in British politics, and rather than opening that particular door for other women, she closed it.

Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death. As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity.

MARGARET ON THE GUILLOTINE. Morrissey expresses deep hatred in memory of Thatcher. Photo from the Margaret Thatcher Facebook page

‘Margaret on the Guillotine’

Morrissey has long made public his loathing toward Thatcher, most remarkably through his 1988 single, “Margaret on the Guillotine.”

“The kind people have a wonderful dream — Margaret on the guillotine,” he sings on his solo debut album, “Viva Hate.”

The album tittle seems fitting for the British singer who has earned a reputation for being brutally outspoken about his thoughts, mostly targeting the government and sensitive issues.

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Listen to ‘Margaret on the Guillotine’ here:

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