British politics | Dacka's Razor

As Tim Blair muses in his post Party like it’s 1984 today at the Daily Telegraph, students who plan to celebrate Thatcher’s passing yesterday were not even BORN when Thatcher saved Great Britain from being Ordinary Britain by smashing the choker hold that the trade union movement had on the once great nation.

Blair points us towards another excellent example of what type of society these naive young dullards are pining for as they sit around sipping chai soy lattes and chatting over the latest edition of The Green Left Weekly in the Uni Bar beer garden.

Ian McEwan, from the Guardian of all places, takes up the story to show just how hopeless things were when the unions held sway in Great Britain in the late 1970’s.

If today’s Guardian readers time-travelled to the late 70s they might be irritated to discover that tomorrow’s TV listings were a state secret not shared with daily newspapers. A special licence was granted exclusively to the Radio Times. (No wonder it sold 7m copies a week).

It was illegal to put an extension lead on your phone. You would need to wait six weeks for an engineer. There was only one state-approved answering machine available.

Your local electricity “board” could be a very unfriendly place. Thatcher swept away those state monopolies in the new coinage of “privatisation” and transformed daily life in a way we now take for granted.

Quite so, as Mr Blair and his readers often remark.

So as these historically ignorant, pseudo-intellectuals tweet on their iPhone 5’s about pissing on graves and dancing in the streets, perhaps they should take a moment to realise that they would have to wait several weeks to do anything if they lived in pre-Thatcher Britain.

Actually, as most of these raving loonies dont like doing anything actually productive perhaps that is why they pine for the “good old days” that Billy Bragg and Elvis Costello sing about in their awfully off key warbles that they call songs.

It shows quite clearly that young people today just dont know how good they have got it (My god, did I just write that? I sound like my bloody old man!).

And they want to allow 16 year olds to vote? Yeah right.

Morons.

While the Left continues to show it’s true colours by marking the death of Margaret Thatcher with calls for mass celebration and pissing on her grave, it is probably timely to recall one of the reasons that the Left hated the Iron Lady with such venom.

While there is no doubt there were many memorable quotes that the formidable former Prime Minister uttered in her many public appearances, it was the fact that many of of these now famous quotes were retorts that were aimed directly at her critics and often fired from the hip that annoyed so many of the rabid mouth breathers of the Left, and conversely impressed so many of those on the Right.

In my opinion it was this innate ability to effectively neuter opponents with an impromptu, yet devastatingly funny quip that displayed her immense intellect and razor sharp wit. This, more than anything, frustrated her opponents to no end with an apparent ease.

As you can see from the clip below, which shows how Thatcher glibly dealt with a heckler / protestor who managed to storm his way into a Tory policy launch and attempted to disrupt proceedings, this lady was not for the turning and she often managed to turn the tables on her hapless opponents.

Classic stuff, especially Thatcher’s parting shot as they drag the man rather unceremoniously out of the hall. (Memo to Victorian Police – This is how you handle protestors effectively)

No matter what you thought of her, you had to admire her political spirit and ability to think on her feet. People laud Gillard’s “legendary” toughness, but the Iron Lady was unmatched in the area of verbal jousting. And all the while she never played the gender card.

Perhaps there is a message in that quote for Tony Abbott as Labor’s AbbottAbbottAbbott vitriolic attacks wind up again ahead of the upcoming election here in Australia.

Fight fire with fire, but make it funny at the same time without being nasty or calling people names.

(H/T: Breitbart – The Conversation – Kerry Picket)