SINCE the turn of the year, no less than three Labour MPs have come out in praise of former Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
This is the woman who has been described in an exhibit in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London as a “contemporary villain,” but senior Labour figures have continued to suggest she sparked"meaningful change" in the UK and was a “visionary leader”.
Labour national campaign coordinator Pat McFadden defended Starmer's praise of Thatcher saying"there's no path to victory that doesn’t include appealing to people who have been votingStarmer now appears to have passed the baton to his shadow chancellor Reeves who, in a speech on Tuesday, said a Labour government would be as radical as Thatcher.
This wasn’t the first time she had echoed the Iron Lady. She said back in October “we want our money back,” after announcing that aThe comments appears to be an echo of Thatcher, who won her four-year battle to reduce Britain’s payments to the European Economic Community in 1980 after famously declaring “I want my money back”.
Unfortunately, though, these important debates are being spoiled by a vocal minority of trolls who aren’t really interested in the issues, try to derail the conversations, register under fake names, and post vile abuse.
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