My Mum/Your Mum
There. I've said it.
My Mum/Your Mum
There. I've said it.
All politicians lie. The whole Blair thing is just so unfair. Tories start wars all the time and get hailed as great leaders. The one time a Labour Prime Minister starts a stupid war and we never hear the end of it.
Hypocrisy.
Thatcher is up to her neck in the Hillsborough business, Orgreave, and one other thing which I am STILL not allowed to talk about. It will come out eventually.
Thatcher won her war. That's a crucial difference.
Also, Thatcher picked her battles well.
Hillsborough - Meh. No-one outside Liverpool cares.
Orgreave - Meh. No one from outside the left cares (indeed much of the country thoroughly enjoyed watching miners get a good kicking).
Blair, on the other hand, decided to 'rub the right's nose in diversity' (not his quote, I know, but clearly his sentiment), opened the immigration floodgates, more than doubled the muslim population within a decade and deeply, deeply fücked the country up, meaning he is hated by the right.
Meanwhile, his perceived 'red tory' ways mean he is hated by the left, while Iraq means much of the centre left hate him, too.
All in all, an impressive tally.
Oh, sure. But that's not real history. Real history is what the people decide is real history.
Elizabeth defeated the Armada, Wellington beat Napoleon, Winston Churchill won the War and Maggie saved us from socialism. This is the history people actually remember, not the airy-fairy toss historians come out with to try and get noticed.