Yet another reason to despise the Iron Lady and her terrible Torries

[marmar]

.....(snip).....

'The ANC is a typical terrorist organisation ... Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in South Africa is living in cloud-cuckoo land' - Margaret Thatcher, 1987

.....(snip).....

But Mrs Thatcher was expressing a common view on the right of the Tory party.

In the mid-Eighties, Conservative backbench MP Teddy Taylor said: "Nelson Mandela should be shot" - though he later claimed it was meant jokingly. "Unfortunately, I do still regard him as an ex-terrorist," he said two years ago.

In 1990, when Mr Mandela declined to meet Mrs Thatcher on a trip to London, Conservative MP Terry Dicks asked: "How much longer will the Prime Minister allow herself to be kicked in the face by this black terrorist?" ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/from-terrorist-to-tea-with-the-queen-1327902.html

[shenmue]

1. Eeeeeew

Thank you for reminding me how bad she really was. We can't look at the past with rose-colored glasses.

[Wait Wut]

2. Two days in a row I had to read that name.

It's amazing how an old, dead asshole can 'get my Irish up.'

If there is a heavenish type of place, I hope Nelson shoves her down the stairs on his way up.