I’m back …
It’s been a few weeks, but most of you know the reasons why so I won’t go into them. Now, first and foremost, the Sunday Roast is on a diet. 500 words and I stop. Well, 500 or thereabouts. Okay, 500 and however many I feel like writing after.
So what’s been happening?
I see there appears to be a bit of a ding-dong over a certain record hitting the charts.
Yes, that grainy photo is taken from the Wizard of Oz and Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, hit number 2 in the charts this week due to the death of Margaret Thatcher.
I wasn’t going to say anything, however, I keep reading articles which tell us to have respect for her. Why? She didn’t have respect for the people whose lives she ruined. Those who faced years of hardship under her rule (me included) and those who lost their livelihood like the workers in the coal industry, the steel industry, and that’s just for starters. Also, I keep hearing talk about our benefit culture by cretins such as Iain Duncan Smith. The thing is, bloody Thatcher is the reason we have this benefit culture. She created a generation brought up on benefits in the 80s. All of those born into this lifestyle are now in their thirties with kids of their own, living in the same system. Thatcher once said, “There is no such thing as society.” Well, she certainly created one society, that’s for sure.
Having said that, Thatcher did give us one thing to look back on with joy. Her caricature Spitting Image puppet.
I can recall it to this day. Thatcher is sitting around the dining table with her cabinet and is asked what she would like for dinner.
‘I’d like steak, raw,’ says Thatcher.
The waitress asks, ‘What about the vegetables?’
Thatcher replies, ‘They’ll have the same as me.’
Brilliant.
I don’t care. To me, she was a tyrant but there have been calls by some to erect a statue to her in Trafalgar Square. Why not? Something for the pigeons to shit on.
Still, condolences to her family, but I’m not grieving, or being a hypocrite.
And talking of Trafalgar …
Last year, I spoke of one of those part-work magazines where you had to collect over one hundred issues to build the ship, Sovereign of the Seas. I read about a similar one, this week. For 120 issues, people have paid over £700 on a replica of HMS Victory, which was Nelson’s ship at Trafalgar.
The collection has now come to an expensive end. However, it seems there is an error and the ship has a part missing. Hysterical. I don’t recall ever reading that HMS Victory sailed into Trafalgar with a bloody gaping hole in the side. You have to laugh. All that money spent over two years, and it’s wrong.
Recycle, recycle, recycle.
I did a double-take this week on seeing the headline that body parts are being recycled.
WTF?
However, on closer examination, it appears it is only the metal pins, plates and screws, etc, which are being talked about.
Come on, that’s not exactly body parts, but imagine if we were recycled. What would you like to see people recycled as?
Yes, Iain Duncan Smith as a chair in a jobcentre. Then perhaps he could be of some use to the unemployed.
That’s all folks …
See, new job and all that, told you it would be short.
What do you mean, ‘Thank God?’
Cheers.
Nick
Antony N Britt - Author 
When Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, I couldn’t stand her or her policies. But she hasn’t been that person for a long time. I don’t expect4 that people should suddenly respect her just because she died. But I do think it is important for people to show respect for themselves by not lowering themselves to being hateful toward someone who just died.
Don’t see the point in all the hate, either, but I still can’t look on kindly to someone who devastated so many lives. I have a long memory. I was hit quite bad at the time.
Hi Nick,
Nice to see you back. I think the death of Margaret Thatcher has made people think, why respect someone who showed no respect for others. She was a psychopathic witch. My first thought was to say nothing, but the people are under attack again by the Tories. The damage was limited a little last time by the wets, this time it’s the Lib Dems; even wetter. It will still create a generation of young people who are insecure. Little girls who have a bedroom of their own will have to share with their brother. Move over Barbie, Action Man needs more room. That disturbs me.
I, like you was going to let Thatcher go quietly, then I kept seeing articles which said we should respect her. Just because they died, does that mean we should respect Osama Bin Laden and Idi Amin?