Posted on 04/12/2013 4:44:13 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Just after the Fall of Thatcher, I was in the pub enjoying a drink with her daughter Carol after a little light radio work. A fellow patron, a "radical" "poet", decided to have a go at her in loco parentis, which is Latin for "in the absence of her loco parent". After reciting a long catalogue of Mrs Thatcher's various crimes, he leant into Carol, nose to nose, and summed it all up: "Basically, your mum just totally smashed the working classes."
Carol was a jolly good sport about it, as always. And it has to be said that this terrible indictment loses a lot of its force when you replace "Vatcher" - a word the snarling tribunes of the masses could effortlessly spit down the length of the bar - with "your mum".
On the other hand, he had a point: basically, her mum did just totally smash the working classes. Today, if one hears the term "working class", one assumes the speaker is Billy Bragg or some other celebrity nostalgic speaking for himself and a handful of other firebrand romantics. But 25 years ago the "working class" still had the numbers, and nary a day went by when the evening news didn't include some menacing scene of big burly blokes striking for their right to continue enjoying the soft pampering working week of the more effete Ottoman sultans.
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What ‘working class’???????? There isn’t a single ass-loafding Brit who works. They’re all watching the ‘Telly’, or down at the Pub, or killing each other at a football match. Now the muzzies run the country. Total asswipes!
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The left just never gives up on chipping away at freedom.
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Too bad we’re losing our Conservative Lions to old age.
They’re being replaced by young, communist drones marching out of our schools, illiterate, ignorant, amoral, and heartless.
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