Coincidences and bare truths

Odd, isn't it--Thatcher's going out to controversy over Ding Dong the Witch is Dead (from the Wizard of Oz (with possible royalties to Lording-it-up Andrew Lloyd Webber)) and the one person who stands up in Parliament to decry Mrs T is Oscar winning actress Glenda Jackson.

Some might have spotted the close coincidence: in the Wizard of Oz, the Good Witch of the North appears when the wicked witch has a house dropped on her. The Good Witch's name: Glinda.

Glinda...Glenda?

Coincidence, right?

And the bare truth...Thatcher is still being touted as the daughter of a greengrocer, as if that puts her roots as coming firmly from the working class.

Oh, puhlease.

Okay, I concede: her old man, Alf Roberts (not to be mixed up with the more lovable Alf Roberts of Coronation Street fame), actually was a greengrocer. It's true.

But he was also a Justice of the Peace, president of the Chamber of Trade, President of Rotary, a director of the Grantham Building Society, a director of the Trustee Savings Bank, chairman of the local National Savings Movement, a governor of the local boys and girls grammar schools and chairman of the Workers' Educational Association. During the Second World War (note 1 below) he was Chief Welfare Officer, directing civil defence, and soon became Chairman of the Finance and Rating Committee. In 1943 he was elected by the council as an Alderman and then served as the Mayor of Grantham for a year.(amusingly, calling for 'a large programme of expenditure to rebuild the roads, public transport, health and social services for children and to "build houses by the thousand. (Wiki bio)

But fuck it, let's just call him a greengrocer, shall we? And while we're on, let's belittle him a little more, by pointing out that there's strong evidence to suggest he was also at the very least, a sex pest who groped employees bums and looked up their skirts, and maybe even a groping sex offender, depending on how you want to grade the offences

When you consider the accusations that Thatcher knowingly employed paedophiles, and had Jimmy Savile around for seven (or was it eleven?) New Years in a row, things start to look a little like what went around was still going round. Some have nodded a wink to Denis Thatcher being one of the club, as it were. Who knows? We might never find out...or maybe we will.



[Note 1: The first World War was actually the Seven Years War (1754-1763) (which you might have noticed was actually nine years not seven.) You also have to watch what historians tell you.]

Why it's important not to piss people off

I'd forgotten about this until I came across it on another blog. (from: http://goo.gl/iTHz8)

This is what Chuck Pahalinuk, author of Fight Club said,

“Years later, in London, a young man pulled me aside before a book event. He was a waiter at a five-star restaurant–one of only two five-star restaurants in the city–and he loved how I depicted waiters spoiling food. Long before they’d read my book, he and other servers had messed with the food they served celebrities.

When I asked him to name one celebrity, he shook his head. No, he couldn’t risk telling.

When I refused to sign his book, he waved me closer and whispered:

‘Margaret Thatcher has eaten my cum.’

He held up one hand, his fingers spread, and said:

‘At least five times. . .’”

There's a moral there for all of us.