End of An Era - another Chance for the Lefties to Bash Thatcher

Hi Folks

Many thanks for all the queries about the lack of blogging.  It's a real tonic that a lot of you are encouraging me to get back into it and that there's a lot of people who read it without having added themselves as followers - don't be shy folks get logged on and get commenting!  And I promise I'll get back to blogging 3 or 4 times a week, time permitting.  Truth be told it's not easy with work and home commitments, but I'll try my best!

So the thing that really caught my eye today was the news that the Mickey Mouse Government in Edinburgh are passing legislation to cease the sale of council houses to tenants. 

This was a flagship Thatcherite policy of the 1980's and hundreds of thousands of working class families took advantage of the chance to buy a house.  Many were the first in their families to have their own property and it gave the working classes a chance they'd never had before. 

The lack of houses being built by the councils to compensate has been the main reason why there's now a dearth of "social housing" (what we called council houses!) and the housing associations that have popped up don't pick up all the slack. 

It would also help of course if the available council houses weren't handed out to undeserving individuals and given instead to hard working families who've been priced out of the market.  Get some buckfast or heroin down you guys, or have a few kids (dad can move in later once you've got the house) and you're straight to the top of the list.

But none of the above can take away the gratitude a large section of the working class of this country owe to Thatcher for the opportunity they were given. Yes that right lefties, the working class, you know the people you claim to help.  Shame that once again a Labour Government will leave office with the poor worse off and more unemployed than when they came to power.  Still let's not let facts get in the way of a "Tory toff" soundbite eh.

However the left wing of this country's absolute hatred for the Iron Lady means the bile is out again, blaming her for the mess the housing stock is now in.  There's a mass of individuals in this country waiting to dance on her grave when she passes away.  Of course she made mistakes.  But the lefties forget the mess this place was in when she came to power. 

Strikes, 3 day weeks, power cuts.  Going cap in hand to the IMF.  Rubbish left uncollected in the streets.  The dead unburied.  I remember as a kid many nights sitting round a paraffin heater, playing Monopoly by candlelight. 

I'll blog again at a later date about the 80s and the rest of the Thatcher premiership.  I was 10 when she came to power and 21 when she was ousted.  I am one of Thatcher's despised children.  Working class kids in the 80s were not seen to be aspiring to better themselves.  Nope, historically we've been tarred as greedy, selfish bastards. 

This country is now run by a clique of left wing media clowns (BBC, Guardian et al) who's spite and hatred for a woman (would they have been so hateful if it had been a male?) who has been out of office for 20 years is undiminished and they will peddle their myths about her and the generation who grew up under her Premiership until we're all in the grave.

People who's politics are Centre Right are now a small minority in Scotland.  As recently as the 50s Scotland was predominantly Tory voting.  Again I'll discuss the reasons for this more as the election draws nearer.

Tonight's music is by a man who was no fan of Mrs T but when he wrote songs like Sweet Gene Vincent you can let Ian Dury off with a lot.  His band the Blockheads were brilliant, keeping the rhythm section perfect whilst Dury's lyrics meandered.  A sad loss when he died, Dury had polio as a child but never let his disability get in the way of his powerful stage presence.