I'm sorry, but I can't see her as anything but the architect of the conservative political policies that led Britain to be in the current mess it is in...
I went to London on my honeymoon in 1975 to meet my English husband's family. I saw the architectural beauty, but I was appalled by both the state of the city, with constant strikes, high unemployment, parched lawns in public parks and general bleakness.
I was introduced the concept of squatters rights, whereby a guest could arrive to your house for dinner with a suitcase and decide not to leave and the host would be helpless against it. My left-leaning new in-laws thoroughly approved. One relative believed that if one went to university and studied an arcane subject and if, upon graduating, could find no employment in said field, the government should pay what they would earn if they could have found employment.
Employment lines went around the block. I believe the Conservative ran a billboard showing one queue with the headline "Labour Isn't working." It was so obviously true.
I believe Margaret Thatcher coined the phrase, The Loony Left. So bang on.
My two adult daughters live in London raising their children. It seems to me to be a model city, doing so much for so many disparate people. Interracial couples are everywhere. No doubt people of colour still suffer discrimination, but I have never seen so many mixed race families. Parks are everywhere and well kept. Art galleries, music venues seem to be thriving, though no doubt they are struggling. The state schools my grandchildren attend are impressive. As is the health care they receive.
I realize this may not be true of the north of England, but as far as I know, the north has always suffered. I believe it is suffering a great deal less than it was in 1975, but as I haven't seen it, lived in it for extended periods I have in London I am willing to admit that I don't know.
I live in Toronto, Canada and nothing gives my fellow Canadians more pleasure than to wail about poorly England is doing.
For culture, urban beauty, astounding public transportation, it makes Toronto, with its sense of social responsibility, clogged traffic, homelessness, and very limited public transportation system...embarrassing.
I'm sorry, but I can't see her as anything but the architect of the conservative political policies that led Britain to be in the current mess it is in...
I went to London on my honeymoon in 1975 to meet my English husband's family. I saw the architectural beauty, but I was appalled by both the state of the city, with constant strikes, high unemployment, parched lawns in public parks and general bleakness.
I was introduced the concept of squatters rights, whereby a guest could arrive to your house for dinner with a suitcase and decide not to leave and the host would be helpless against it. My left-leaning new in-laws thoroughly approved. One relative believed that if one went to university and studied an arcane subject and if, upon graduating, could find no employment in said field, the government should pay what they would earn if they could have found employment.
Employment lines went around the block. I believe the Conservative ran a billboard showing one queue with the headline "Labour Isn't working." It was so obviously true.
I believe Margaret Thatcher coined the phrase, The Loony Left. So bang on.
My two adult daughters live in London raising their children. It seems to me to be a model city, doing so much for so many disparate people. Interracial couples are everywhere. No doubt people of colour still suffer discrimination, but I have never seen so many mixed race families. Parks are everywhere and well kept. Art galleries, music venues seem to be thriving, though no doubt they are struggling. The state schools my grandchildren attend are impressive. As is the health care they receive.
I realize this may not be true of the north of England, but as far as I know, the north has always suffered. I believe it is suffering a great deal less than it was in 1975, but as I haven't seen it, lived in it for extended periods I have in London I am willing to admit that I don't know.
I live in Toronto, Canada and nothing gives my fellow Canadians more pleasure than to wail about poorly England is doing.
For culture, urban beauty, astounding public transportation, it makes Toronto, with its sense of social responsibility, clogged traffic, homelessness, and very limited public transportation system...embarrassing.