Thread:Comments:Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies aged 87/Negatives/reply (2)

I'm with Xania on this, we've fallen for the "don't speak ill of the deceased" nonsense and produced a bit of a hagiography. She was a hateful woman, and she will not be missed because her loathed ideology lives on, even in toadying members of the Labour Party.

Hunter S. Thomson had this to say when Nixon died:
 * "If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."

There are plenty of notable figures as-glad to see Thatcher gone, and not willing to be cowed by her fans in the mainstream press. A well-worth reading editorial in The Guardian warns on the risks of hagiography, just look at the "burial" of the socially divisive policies Reagan was responsible for along with his corpse. The policies never went away, they were canonised alonside him by Fox News.

Much the same can be said for Thatcher.