Let's have a Mrs Thatcher climate day !

Hi All,

Mention to Mrs Thatcher to the left and you will almost universally get a vitriolic and hostile response. Especially over the miners strike (which happened before I was born), in which most of Britain’s coal mines were eventually shut down and millions of communities- often relying on ‘the pit’- as the main source of employment for men, in gritty ‘northern’ mining towns and villages, thus destroying whole communities in the process.

The funny thing is that Mrs Thatcher should actually be praised by today’s left, rather than hated. Here is why :

No 1: By closing down all those mines, which predominately employed men and  even ‘toxic masculine men’ , broke the stranglehold of patriarchy in many parts of the country, liberating women to get poorly paid jobs – a feminist revolution- rather than looking after kids at home.

No 2: Today we are told opening a new mine in Cumbria is a ‘Climate Crime’. No kidding. Opening up a coal mine so that people aren’t freezing to death this winter is a ‘crime’, but glueing oneself to the streets or vandalising art galleries is not . But by this wonderful logic because Thatcher managed to close the rest of Britain’s coal industry, she should be seen as a ‘climate super hero’, because surely she saved us all from the terrible evil that is coal.

 In fact Mrs Thatcher should be up their with Greta and extinction rebellion, et al.  Why then do the left hate Mrs Thatcher and the Tories for doing exactly what they want to do today, re the environment ? Surely Mrs Thatcher was an environmental trail blazer and ahead of her time?