Margaret Thatcher dead: Morrissey blasts former PM as "barbaric" just hours after her death
8 Apr 2013 19:36
Source: mirror.co.uk

The musician has been a long-time critic of the former Prime Minister and aired his views in songs like Margaret On The Guillotine

The musician has been a long-time critic of the former Prime Minister and aired his views in songs like Margaret On The Guillotine.

Tonight, just hours after her death, he released a strongly-worded statement slamming the former Tory politician.

The former Smiths singer said: "Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others.

"Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the Ivory Trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own Cabinet booted her out."

Morrissey, whose first Smiths single Hand In Glove was released a month before Baroness Thatcher won her second term of office as Prime Minister in 1983, was highly critical of her role in the Falklands War.

He said: "She gave the order to blow up The Belgrano even though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone - and was sailing AWAY from the islands.

"When the young Argentinian boys aboard The Belgrano had suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs up sign for the British press. Iron? No. Barbaric? Yes.

"She hated feminists even though it was largely due to the progression of the women's movement that the British people allowed themselves to accept that a Prime Minister could actually be female.

"But because of Thatcher, there will never again be another woman in power in British politics, and rather than opening that particular door for other women, she closed it.

Outspoken Morrissey, who recently cancelled a series of shows due to ill health, went on: "Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death.

"As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity," he added.

never real liked Morrisey but I have to agree with his assessment.

And while I find the demos celebrating her death very disturbing and tasteless (and rather useless), she at least spent her final years and last day in a suite at The Ritz !!!

And I am very jealous of that....it is the one way I shall attempt to emulate her !

I wish Morrisey and all the other Bandwagon Berthas would shut up.

A statement? Why's a singer issuing a statement about this?? Is there no subject about which this pompous warbling poltroon assumes he's an expert?

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
I wish Morrisey and all the other Bandwagon Berthas would shut up.

but why should they ?

it's all part of the wonderful free West she is being credited with creating

She'll be remembered long after this little has-been has faded from view.

True wrote:
She'll be remembered long after this little has-been has faded from view.

is there much point in being remembered or forgotten after your dead?

apparently the poor thing didn't remember Denis was dead and to be remindered all the time