What Thatcher's death taught me.

A few hours ago, i came in after a night of visiting family and sat down, with the full intention of making a video to explain my full feelings on this whle issue and what my day has actually been like.

To say that i've known some bigot's is a complete underestimate. It seems that i've been having contact with some absolutly vile people and so today was them showing exactly what they were like, which is perfect, because my facebook friends list needed shrinking a little bit.

As the lady herself used to say, facts before debate.

Born Margaret Roberts on 13 October 1925
First stood for Parliament in the 1950 election
Married businessman Denis Thatcher in 1951
Elected as Conservative MP for Finchley in 1959
Named education secretary by Ted Heath in 1970
Defeated Heath in Tory leadership contest in 1975
Became first female prime minister after Conservative election victory in 1979
Sends taskforce to regain control of the Fal...klands Islands in 1982
Wins landslide election victory in 1983
Fights year-long battle with mining unions in 1984-5
Survives IRA bombing of Brighton hotel during 1984 Conservative conference
Wins third general election victory in 1987
Resigns after facing leadership challenge in 1990
Stands down as MP in 1992 and awarded a peerage.

 

For those of you who are seeing all the dates and knowing my date of birth, may well be able to notice that i was born only 4 years before she was voted out of government. I don't remember those years, but i was slightly involved in what was happening.

 

You see, aged 19 months, i was involved in a car accident which basically resulted in me being between the wheel of the car and the hubcap of the car, broken bones everywhere and as my dad once put it to me "Half of your face was hanging off" which explains the scar that is still there to this day. I wasn't aware at the time, but my parents were, that the ambulance emergency service was on strike at the current time, but human decency meant that i was still seen to by paramedics and taken to the hospital etc.

 

Why were they on strike though? We shall come to that in abit.

 

What happend on the 8/4/13 then?

 

Baroness Thatcher died. Simple as, she sufferd a stroke and she couldn't survive it. In the most simple terms i can put this, a daughter and son, lost their mother. Their children lost a grand parent. True to modern day british life though, did people see it like that?

 

Not at all.

 

Within minutes of her death being announced, my facebook and twitter exploded with comments such as "ding dong the witch is dead" or "i cannot wait to actually piss on her grave" and such.

 

Of course, we cannot ignore that mrs Thatcher's job, was of course to do with politics and that when it comes to politics, very few ever see eye to eye on every topic, it was of course only her job, but very few could see it as that today, they saw it as her life, which it wasn't.

 

I could easily sit here for hours upon hours, trying to portray to you exactly what her career was like in the political field, i could give you billions of facts and figures, but with people these days, their minds are set to one way of thinking and that seems to be that they're glad she's died, because apparently, since she was voted out of government, she's done loads.... apparently.

 

A point got made to me earlier in the day that i hadn't really thought of before. During the olympics, of course it was the time to have the bunting and the balloons out and be proud to be british, so of course when on twitter, one of our diver's father's name was brought up, in a negative way, people were all over it, about how bad it was to speak ill of the dead and how nasty this person was. A shark difference to what you see on twitter now however (even by some of the same people).

 

If you wish to look up Thatcher's career, or indeed more details of her life, i can only suggest to you to search google and find the answer's yourself, But there's one point i must make very clear here and i know i speak for others when i say this.

 

With every person that dies, someone will miss them. We all have loved one's in our lives and of course, there comes the time when we must say goodbye to them until we meet again. Posting hateful messages about any person's passing, gloating about it, isn't a good thing for people like me to see you doing. Nobody thinks anything more of you, infact the only thing people can think, is less.

 

When it comes to our loved ones and them being taken out of our lives, none of us would like to be confronted with nasty comments or remarks, yet in a few hours, when Margaret Thatcher's children and grand children wake up, this is exactly what they'll face and from alot of people, does it seem fair? What would you do in that situation? Would you be happy?

 

The resounding answer is no.

 

Of course people will be tempted to try and make smart remarks back to that question, but in truth, that's just a way for them to cover up how they would truely feel.

 

Finally, i would also like you to keep this in mind. There's always going to be people who will think differently to you, have respect for them. We get nowhere fast if all we can do is send each other hate-filled messages over and over again. Boasting your joy at someone's death, by karma's rules, will mean that someone will boast about their joy when you pass. While some of you may brush that off with a simple "I don't care" have a little think at those who you leave behind, would they be happy?