11mo ago

Pensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statue

metro.co.uk Pensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statue

The rude word has since been removed from the statue, which cost £300,000 and was unveiled in May 2022.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12878654

A pensioner has been caught on CCTV apparently spraying the word ‘b******’ onto the plinth holding a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister.
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Its installation was controversial and it has been egged and spat on – with some jokers even marking the statue as a public toilet on Google Maps.

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11mo ago

Pensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statue

metro.co.uk /2024/03/06/hunt-pensioner-defaced-margaret-thatcher-statue-slur-20414158/

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How is Thatcher still triggering people so much?
She stopped being PM 34 years ago and has been dead for 11 years.
Get the fuck over it.
- A lot of the issues we have today stem from her privatisation and the north has never recovered. Her effect on the country has not stopped just because she's no longer PM and ultimately dead.
  
  Yes, it's been so awful that no government has ever wanted to reverse it.
  
  Which is why people are still angry
  
  Well, a lot of the policy and austerities she set were "reversed" because they weren't sustainable. However, once you normalize a political ideology and set a precedent, it's hard to prevent it from happening again.
  
  Why would a capitalist dictatorship reverse something that benefits the capitalist class?
- Please for the love of god just do the bare minimum research. It'll stop you looking like an ass.
  
  As an American, I have no fucking idea what margret thatcher is
  
  For most people they then either ignore the thread or look up the name on the web to learn something new. You on the other hand decided to pop in and boast about your ignorance instead.
  Interesting choice.
  
  You decided to make yourself feel superior by shitting on people from around the world who took the time to engage the comment section.
  Do you want empty comment sections? Because this is how you get empty comment sections.
  So fuck off, wanker.
  
  Empty comments aren't any better than any comment sections. It should be easier to look her up than type those comments. Either way she could be compared to Reagan.
  
  That’s… not good.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
  https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
- Her actions are still negatively influencing peoples lives to this day. You should stop being such a bootlicker.
- Should we just forget about all the villains of history and allow ourselves to continue being taken advantage of then?
  Forgetting what happened is why we vote in wankers again and again. Only the idiotic don't learn.
  
  "Villains of history"? She wasn't bloody Hitler.
  
  There are other historical villains than Hitler. It isn't an either/or situation.
  
  Someone with a different economic ideology is not a "villain".
  It's such a weird way of viewing politics.
  
  Despite you taking issue with my phrasing, you're not actually arguing with my point.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28
  
  Repealed 20 years ago.
  
  Right. And who introduced it?
- It's the 40yr anniversary of the miners strikes.
  
  ...and?
  What does putting graffiti on a statue achieve with regards to that?
  
  Well, it achieved you obviously getting your knickers in a twist about it. So that's something.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%E2%80%931985_United_Kingdom_miners'_strike
- The real question is how are right-wingers still fetishizing Thatcher so much?
  When that ends, then resisting it can end.
  
  That is also weird because we haven't had anything close to Thatcherism since she left office.
  
  You appear to have missed the bit when a certain neo-Thatcherite PM fucked the economy to ribbons in mid-2022 then.
  
  Lol, she wasn't Thatcherite apart from dressing like her.
  She announced a public spending plan of £130 billion over two years. She was going to use the state to prop up business. Literally the opposite of Thatcher's philosophy. Thatcher also wanted to control inflation and lower the deficit. Truss's plans gave no consideration to any of that.
- The stature is new.

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