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Pensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statue (metro.co.uk)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

When that ends, then resisting it can end.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.