It was going to go up in London (Westminster?) but everyone admitted it would be a protest magnet. It has been in storage for 3 years or so. Read the linked Guardian story for full details of why and how it came to finally be put up in Grantham.
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FTA:
The bronze statue was, without ceremony, placed on a 3-metre (10ft) high plinth to make it more difficult for protesters to inflict any damage.
They knew it wasn’t a great idea.
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10ft deep plinth would have made more sense.
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Because Tories think statues of dead bastards are more valuable than immigrants and trans people currently trying to survive in the UK.
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Absolutely all of this.
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FTFA: get a load of Peter Hook chucking eggs at a statue
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Bloody amateur.
He’s only got a six-pack.
ETA. not talking about his tummy. No offense, you egg-bunging hero, you.
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My all-time favorite Thatcherism:
". . . they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families . . . "
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Throws like a, um, bad thrower.
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Do unto her statue what she did to the country she was supposed to take care of: tear it down and sell it for scrap. Bronze is a hefty £4/kg, that’s good money just lying around, unguarded, and you know she’d approve, that’s just Capitalism as she preached and practiced it, and you don’t leave money just lying around.
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Now you’re talking. I’ll bring my van, you grab the angle-grinder, we’ll get @gracchus on lookout, straight three-way split down the scrapyard. Quids in. Go Capitalism. Finally earned a bob from the Thatch.
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the day after she passed it played everywhere on the streets of London
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I know a lot of people have intense hatred for Thatcher; but why…
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…did it take so long for that first egging?
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Fuck Thatcher.
Evil old bag tried to stop the german reunification. That was the worst thing she did to my country, at least the worst I know of.
May she rust in hell.
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Indeed. I thank the lucky stars that nobody has taken advantage of people’s tendency to ignore boring looking blokes in high-vis vests by setting out sawhorses and a using a ladder to get close to the statue in broad daylight. Especially that hollow formed by the clasped hands, a pocket not visible from the street.
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I did not know that.
I didn’t think it possible for my estimation of her to be any lower.
You have proved that wrong and I don’t know if I’m sadder or angrier, or both.
Fuck Thatcher.
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When it comes to trans people, it’s not just Tories. TERFs tend to be self-described leftists.
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The Blairites TERs are not left wing, by Tony Blair’s own admission. I don’t think the tankie wing of the TERs are openly supported right now, since mindlessly supporting Russia is unfashionable at the moment.
I don’t think there are any other left wing factions.
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I am inordinately pleased by the subtle optimism signaled by the presence of the word “first” in that headline.
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They can self-described right up their assholes.
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