Once again it should be noted that Mrs T was not voted out
of office by the electorate but was pushed out by her so called friends…as
Norman Tebbitt put in last week:
“Of course, she was brought down in the end not by the electorate but by her
colleagues. Not only is it quite remarkable that she won three elections
running-someone else has done that since-what was remarkable was that she
polled slightly more votes on the occasion of her third victory, when she had
been in office for eight years, than on her first. I regard that as a triumph
for her.
My regrets? Because of the commitments that I made to my
own wife, I did not feel able either to continue in government after 1987 or to
return to government when she later asked me to do so. I left her, I fear, at
the mercy of her friends. That I do regret.”
HL Deb, 10 April 2013, c1143
You have to listen to it to hear the scorn and disgust in the words “I left her, I fear, at the mercy of her
friends.” Many of whom were sat around him in the Lords.
Also there was a good deal of public anger at what happened
to her at the time and still is. The
reason that most politicians (not the most honest or generous of people) are
very careful to praise her is that to slang her off is not going to make them
popular or get them votes…..the reason is that despite a loud and rather
ignorant minority the majority, even her political opponents admired and
respected her.
Where is the public grief ?
Watch the crowds lining the streets on Wednesday in respectful silence,
not the loud, ignorant few. She beat
such people 20 years ago and they still cannot put up a rational argument, to
sooth their bruised egos. Their actions
now again prove Maggie was right.