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IN THE DARK TIMES WILL THERE ALSO BE SINGING? YES, THERE WILL ALSO BE SINGING. ABOUT THE DARK TIMES.
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Hey, dumb American question here. Every UK person I have ever met hates Margaret Thatcher. Why? What terrible thing did she do to piss off that many people for so long?
Where do I fucking start?
So, Thatcher was the bane of the working classes, and much of what she did still has repercussions to this day. So, in no particular order, just in the order I remember them, here are some things she did that pissed us off -Â
â˘In 1989 she introduced this thing called the âCommunity Chargeâ but which everyone calls the âPoll Taxâ which replaced an older system in which your tax payment was based on the rental value of your home. This new tax meant that people living in one bedroom flats would pay the same as a billionaire living in a mansion. Obviously, the rich loved it, everyone else⌠not so much. So there were riots (video of news about the riots) - There were lots of riots in the Thatcher years, and they were all notable for the extreme levels of police brutality.
(photo, poll tax protest in Trafalgar Square, 1990)
â˘Then there was her war on industry. There was a lot of inflation when she came to power, so she instituted anti-inflationary measures. All well and good⌠except not the way she did it. She closed many government controlled industries, most famously steel and coal. The amount spent on public industries dropped by 38% under Thatcher. The coal miners went on strike, for almost a year, but in the end, the pits were still closed, and 64,000 people lost their jobs. Unemployment rates soared in industrial areas, and inequality between these (generally northern or welsh) areas and the rest of the UK is still there. During the strike there were numerous violent clashes with the police at picket lines which were widely televised. As a memoir from one miner attests: âI saw a police officer with a fire extinguisher in his hand, bashing a lad in the back. I tried to get closer to note down the officerâs number but they were wearing black boilersuits with no numbers. The next thing I knew, a police officer struck me from behind. I was coming in and out of consciousness as I was dragged across the road into an alleyway. They blocked off the alley and beat another lad and me with sticks until I was unconscious.â (I canât post the whole thing itâs too long, but read it in the Guardian) Images such as this swept the country, turning many people against Thatcher -
And after it was all over people felt Thatcher had lied, saying she wanted to close only 20 pits, when in the end, 75 were closed down.
⢠Inequality soared whilst she was prime minister. There is a thing called the gini coefficient, it is the most common method of measuring inequality. Under gini, a score of one would be a completely unequal society; zero would be completely equal. Britainâs gini score went up from 0.253 to 0.339 by the time Thatcher resigned.
â˘During her time as prime minister the notorious âSection 28Ⲡwas published. It stated: A local authority shall not (a) intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality; (b) promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship. - Section 28 wasnât repealed until 2003.
⢠She introduced the Right To Buy scheme, which allowed people to buy their council houses for a very low price, which, at first glance, seems like a great idea, allowing people who normally wouldnât be able to afford their own home to have one - however, loads of people have entered the scheme and now we have far too little social housing, meaning there has been a sharp rise in homelessness.
⢠The Battle of the Beanfield was a clash between hippies and police near Stonehenge in 1985. 1300 police officers converged on a convoy of 600 new age travellers who were heading to Stonehenge to set up a free festival in violation of a high court order. Again, there was an insane amount of police brutality, and 16 travellers were hospitalised, 573 people were arrested (one of the biggest mass arrests in UK history) - âPregnant women were clubbed with truncheons, as were those holding babies. The journalist Nick Davies, then working for The Observer, saw the violence. âThey were like flies around rotten meat,â he wrote, âand there was no question of trying to make a lawful arrest. They crawled all over, truncheons flailing, hitting anybody they could reach. It was extremely violent and very sickening.ââ (source) - Once everyone was arrested, the empty vehicles, which were in many cases the only homes the travellers had âwere then systematically smashed to pieces and several were set on fire. Seven healthy dogs belonging to the Travellers were put down by officers from the RSPCA.â (source same as above)
Most of the charges were dismissed in court after Lord Cardigan, who had tagged along with them to see what would happen, testified on behalf of the travellers against the police.Â
â˘Her removal of Irish dissidents right to be placed in a category that essentially made them political prisoners instead of merely criminals led to a hunger strike that ended in 10 deaths, including that of Bobby Sands, who was elected from his prison cell, reflecting the immense national, and international support for Irish nationalists. Thatchers lack of sympathy, or even empathy led to her becoming even more of a hate figure.
⢠She presided over a rapid deregulation of the banks, which ultimately led to much of the problems during britains 2007-2012 financial crash many years later.
⢠She took free milk from school children, which, though not as serious as anything else listed here, directly affected every child in the UK and was very unpopular, leading her to get the nickname âMaggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcherâ, which is still used today.
⢠Oh⌠and she supported Apartheid and called Mandela a terrorist.
This is nowhere near everything sheâs done that pisses people off, but I hope it goes some way to explaining why when she died âding dong the witch is deadâ became number one in the UK charts, people partied in the streets, and people protested her (State funded) funeral. She is a decisive figure, some people in the UK do actually love her. I do not. She decimated the UKâs industrial heartland, she caused mass unemployment and the destruction of much of working class culture, she was cavalier in her financial policies and increased inequality by staggering levels, she approved serious police brutality and attempted to destroy the culture of unions in this country. Â I fundamentally disagree with all she stood for and it angers me that her mistakes are still affecting this country and the people who live in it. And I am VERY angry that the current government are spending ÂŁ50 million on a museum about her.
Regarding selling off social housing, it was specifically that the income that local authorities generated from doing so was not allowed to be reinvested in acquiring new social housing. And no extra budget was allocated to cover building new social housing. The aim was clearly to create a social housing shortage as a twisted way of âmotivatingâ people to stop being poor.
Letâs not forget how she made repeated attempts to get Britainâs most prolific sex offender Jimmy Savile a knighthood, gave him free rein to do whatever the hell he liked at Stoke Mandeville hospital (including running it into the ground, making himself indispensable there, and oh yeah, abusing scores of patients), as well has having a close friendship with him. This is all in spite of the fact that rumours about him were going around even back then, and on a related note, she actually knew of the abuse accusations against many of her ministers and let them go free despite this.
A feminist? Pah! She actually said, âThe feminists hate me, donât they? And I donât blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.â (and if for some reason you donât trust that article, just google that quote). She also said that âthe battle for womenâs rights has largely been won. I owe nothing to womenâs libâ, and whilst being PM for 11 years, she only ever appointed one woman, Baroness Young. As this article says, she basically ârefused to accept that the majority of women do not have the privilege she had, in other words a rich partner, and lots of childcare provision.â In terms of feminism, she hated any woman who wasnât financially well off, able-bodied, cishet, white, neurotypical (as you can see in this article), and basically, like her. Great feminism.
She also played a huge part in making Rupert Murdoch the hugely powerful man he is today (and consequently, making the British press so unreliable, ridiculous, and downright dangerous), and it seems she also used this connection to help giver herself more âsunshine headlinesâ (read: favourable).
I could go on but I feel like Iâve been at this for a while. OP has done a great job in summarising most of the main reasons sheâs so hated. Iâve added a number of other important ones here too, but to be honest, just look at any reasonably credible article about her. If it seems positive, then google the topics at hand, and I guarantee there will be the flip side, often explained with a more socially conscious approach.
If you want proof of the bigoted, unrepresentative establishmentâs continuing hold on Britain and our politics, just take a look at Thatcher, and take a look at those who praise her to the skies.
This is a great post, all I really want to add is that Section 28 (which was a hateful enough piece of legislation anyway) was introduced during the AIDS crisis, & homophobia was very much on the rise at the time.
Itâs also worth looking up the controversy surrounding the sinking of the General Belgrano, which killed 323 people. during the Falklands War (Thatcherâs response on hearing of it was âJust rejoice at that newsâ)
she supported pinochet both politically and personally and i hope she burns for 10,000 screaming years of agony
My favourite piece of London graffiti (since been removed, I believe) was on the line coming up from south London to London Bridge station:
âThe witch is dead but the spell remains.â
Itâs tragically true in the UK.
Elvis Costello said it well - she was a monster and Iâd happily piss on her grave.
OP talks about a lot of disparate things but doesnât really tie them together. Thatcher did hundreds of awful things and this doesnât talk about the horrific things she did in Northern Ireland enough (we are talking children being killed with rubber bullets).
However, the real reason people hate Thatcher is because she tried to break working class class consciousness in the UK, and arguably destroyed the UKâs social democratic âPost war consensusâ.
The destruction of nationalised industries, selling off of council housing, breaking the power of the unions - all of this aimed to break the idea of a working class which were âlooked afterâ by the state.
And the thing is she succeeded-she dragged Britain drastically to the right, and everything that has come after, from the Iraq war to austerity to asylum seekers dying in the back of lorries to Boris fucking Johnson can be blamed on that.
Thatcher broke this country and we never recovered and thatâs why we hate her.
âFor three million they could give everyone in Scotland a shovel and we would dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan personally.â
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A Year In Poems; 02/01/21
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A new type
Of poem for me
Please be good.

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A Year In Poems; 01/01/21
The 1st of January;
The New Year is here and Mighty,
The old one just wants to go.
It limps and drags its roots out
To make space for the other to grow.
I limp along with it,
I am entirely made of pain.
I hope for a brief respite,
As the year begins to wane.
Some were not so lucky,
And donât have chance to rest,
They donât have to time to hope for More,
Or believe itâs for the Best.
As the New Year digs its roots in,
And bravely sticks out a stem,
I hope for better, not for me,
But the unlucky, the broken,Â
For them.
May the Year be Long and Happy,
May the World try to be Good.
May this be the Year it all changes,
Because this is the Year that it Could.
Okay double reblogging because the source was leading me to a weird Instagram article? I donât know if thatâs an error on my side and if it is could someone please send me the correct link
I think this is the right petition though but I canât find the links for anything else:
Revoke Beijing's right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics on human rights ground
If my information is wrong PLEASE CORRECT!
And DO NOT DONATE TO CHANGE.ORG. Their wording is tricky but the money goes to them and not to the cause.
Apologies for the triple reblog. Hereâs the links for the Step 4 petitions
Hereâs the amnesty.org link
Right now, it is estimated that up to one million people - predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities - are being arbitrarily detained in âde-ex
Hereâs the second change.org link
Petition to Free to Muslims in Chinese Concentration Camps
Is there any good news today?
Lots and lots!
The happy broadcast
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#this is the only money cat i will reblog because itâs actually doing the manekineko pose151,646 notes (via lolwhutninja)
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and it has its right paw up! the correct paw for this. and from the markings on its ears, it looks like it might be a calico cat. which is the luckiest kind!
extremely lucky cat
I donât even care if it actually works, Iâm mostly reblogging because itâs freaking adorable.
cute cat and need money, good post, 10/10
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Yâknow I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.
Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.
money cat do your magic
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shifty writing sites
Inkitt
Dreame
They have the same cheap tactic, write you out of nowhere from a random, unaffiliated account and âpraiseâ something you have posted online, then ask you to join their super-special site. If you ignore them the first time, a âdifferentâ representative will message you word-for-word the same message again a few months later.
Except this time Dreame didnât even get the name of my novel right.
I actually have first hand experience with Dreame and so I can say itâsâŚlacking.
I was contacted about 2 years ago (via Wattpad) about a story Iâd posted several years before then, at age 12. I would like to point out that at the time of the original contract, and my dealings with them since, I was under 18. The company was aware of this.
They wanted me first to sign a contract with them for a parent company called âFicfunâ, but soon moved me over to Dreame. The terms of the contract (condensed) were:
1. I would take the original story down from Wattpad, save for the first 5 chapters and a link to my account on Dreame
2. I would post a new chapter every day (this gathers readers better than just posting ti in one go, apparently)
3. I would get an advance of $100 US, and then, if my story did well, it would be moved onto a pay-to-read system, and I would get 30% of the profits earnt from that.
On all those accounts, Dreame delivered. I was paid the advance, and have since made approximately $200, though I didnât keep track (I have no way of knowing whether Dreame actually made more money off my story than they said).
At that point, my opinion was that Dreame wasnât good for anyone looking to become a full-time writer, but if you were young or just wanted a little extra income with minimal work, then it was fine.
Later, I wrote a second story solely for Dreame, with the intention to get a second contract. I also tried to âwithdrawâ the $180 I made between June and May last year but had never received. Thatâs when my opinion changed.
First of all, after nearly 2 months, the $180 still hasnât been sent.
Second, I was sent an updated contract with far more legal jargon, and it broke down like this:
1. Dreame would have all rights to my work, which included rights to get it made into a movie or have another writer finish it/write a sequel if they didnât like my ending. (Disturbing, no? They didnât even have to tell me if they did this, and I would get much more limited royalties)
2. Dreame would publicize my book and keep a record of all money they spent. If, after a 36 month period, they didnât turn enough of a profit (it wasnât specified how much âenoughâ was) I would be required to pay back all the money theyâd spent.
3. I was not allowed to ask how much money they spent on publicizing.
This is disturbing for a number of reasons. It means that, in theory, they could have spent $0 on advertising, made $100-$1000 off my story (given how much my other story would have likely made them) and then turned round and made me pay them an extra $100-$1000. Legally, I would have had to.Â
This is beyond predatory. It gives Dreame a way to lie about expenses and gives the author no way to check what theyâre doing. Bad enough as that is, itâs made worse by the fact that they knew I was a child, and were likely trying to take advantage of that. If I hadnât read through the contract, seen something fishy (there was A LOT of confusing legal jargon), and given it to a relative who knows law to look at, then I would have just trusted it to be the same as my first contract and signed away my rights and profits.
Personally, I reckon that was the plan all alongârope me in with a decent contract, then screw me over if I ever tried to publish with them again. My advice is to steer clear, unless they give you a contract like my first one and youâre happy with it (though, even then, maybe donât).
Iâm lucky that I had a relative who could see through the legal nonsense, but most people wonât. Most people, especially teens and young authors with little experience in the industry, will get screwed over by this company. Please, please be careful. It is DEFINITELY a shifty website.
This post is a few years old, but I feel compelled to add onto this, as a unique voice. I still see Inkitt and Dreame (and Inkittâs affiliate app, Galatea) shared around as legit writing sites for publishing. And baby authors- oh, baby authors, beware. Because the spam messages are the tip of the iceberg. I was courted by Inkitt quite professionally in 2015, through my early attempts at marketing my novel on Goodreads. Their original community was small and reasonably spam-free, so I had little concerns outside of Inkittâs tendency to spam on other sites like FictionPress and Wattpad. They were small then, so I figured they just didnât know how to market yet. I spent a year and a half in their community, which was very welcoming and friendly- I still have authors I am friends with from this community. We were, at the time, the original 15,000 users that emerged on Inkitt. It was cozy and enjoyable. Their base was not the problem turned out: their staff and tactics however? Downright dangerous. I won 3rd place in a fantasy contest at Inkitt at the end of 2015, but there were questions arising even then about the companyâs use of algorithm, the way they marketed authors, and how fair their contests even were. Infamous disputes emerged over a site tool that functioned as a âRandom Story Button,â but only cycled a select few stories- many of which won these contests. The staff always insisted that these tools were fair, and they probably still do so now. During this time, I received warm, fuzzy emails, mugs, and letters from Inkittâs staff in Berlin, all personally addressed to me. Seems nice enough. But prizes were often late or delayed or never even showed up for other people- conflict began to ruffle feathers in a usually quiet community.
In the beginning of 2016, I was offered a paid job out of the blue at Inkitt (I was an active community member at the time, but had never applied). Eager after a few interviews, I took a position as community manager. Dream job, right? The internals of Inkitt seemed to match the external goals, but as the curtain lifted, I read through enough Slack logs to learn a few things:
1. Inkittâs leadership viewed authors poorly, and often pitted authors against each other behind the scenes, either by causing drama from within the site or by stirring the pot in contests.
2. Any critique levied at the company, publicly or privately, was silenced and dismissed. Authors that were critical of the young company were made targets by the staff, behind the scenes.
3. Most of the early contests (Iâm not privy to anything after 2017) were a framework for a winner that had been eyed and chosen months before any contest was ever run. This was made public on accident more than once.
4. Â Most of their content, contrary to the direction of their community, was leaning after a âbestsellerâ of some kind, and they did not want to stay an authorâs community alone: they wanted to become a publisher.
5. They directly target younger authors and new indie authors, and like Dreame, and this is on purpose. Iâll keep my time with Inkitt as an employee as brief as possible, because it was an incredibly damaging experience.  Posts about other employee experiences can be seen here, as reviews are frequently scrubbed from the internet (you wonder why). The short and clean bit was that the company leaders often abused my time and earnest desire to help authors, all while I was love-bombed about my writing, my role as a community leader, and my value to the site. I believed this- despite the commonplace verbal abuse at 5am, despite the frequent and inappropriate outbursts from team leaders, particularly the CEO. I believed this so much that I traveled to Berlin to work there for several weeks in the summer of 2016, to meet the team in person. Iâm not the first or the last person they invited to do this. My experience mirrors those reviews: I was tempted by free travel and found myself working in their cramped office from 10am to 10pm in an area of Germany where I had little access to English. They dressed up my hotel stay as an âAirBnBâ and then placed me in a shady student dorm that the CEO illegally rented out. From the first week on, I was told to not speak to people at this dorm. I was told to lessen my contact with my friends and family back home- outside of where I could be monitored, at work. I was told to cut back on FB posts about my location by the CEO, who in turn wanted me to use my personal social media to begin spamming authors in company fashion. I realized then that I had allowed this company to buy my return tickets to the US, as the CEO suggested âadjustingâ their dates further into the summer, if I was not comfortable working under these exact conditions. Then came the suggestion that I should move to Berlin this summer, or transfer my college credits to their local university to better work in Germany. These things obviously set off warnings in my head. I did not feel safe at all, and began to distance myself from the company. There were a lot of ugly fights before I left Berlin. I was refused a substantial paycheck and repeatedly threatened, and then directly demoted for refusing to stay in Germany and permanently work for Inkitt. I quit my job two weeks after I arrived home again, scared of retaliation. But Inkitt didnât stop there. I continued to receive emails and recognition from their social media long after Iâd requested it stop. They began to âlove-bombâ me all over again, eager to win back my approval and community leadership. My attempts at engaging with other authors about my negative experience were met with scornful messages from the CEO, trying to silence criticism, who still stalked me on social media for some time after. I removed my stories and reviews from the website after a great deal of conflict with the team, though I know many authors who cannot get their content (reviews/stories/etc) removed despite increased requests. As recently as last year, I received alerts from friends, who hear from the CEO, trying to clarify anything I âliedâ about. The situation was and remains horrific. This was four years ago, but I cannot sum up enough how much these stories have been repeated and echoed well into recent years. Nightmarish stories from authors and workers alike on just how toxic Inkitt is. I do not highlight these events to sound alarmist, but to warn young authors of the exact trap I fell into and how truly damaging it was. I lost 20 pounds during this experience, I was diagnosed with C-PTSD. This experience took four years to recover from, and I wonât even get into the damage done to my writing. Do not walk away from Inkittâs offers, run away from them. Much of what they offer sounds too good to be true, and thatâs because it is.
Other author experiences (including those published with Inkitt) can be read here, here, here, and here for one of their first published authors.
Problems in their business are discussed here, here, and here with Writer Beware. Stay smart, young author folk.
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If you are only boosting this post, please try to say so in the tags so I donât accidentally count your reblog as an entry!
You have until May 24 2020 MIDNIGHT EASTERN TIME.Â
Thatâs it.
Iâll tally up each reblog (excluding people simply boosting/my own reblogs) and will randomly choose ten (10) winners. If you are chosen, Iâll just need a viable email to send you the link to download the zine later this summer. If winners donât respond within a week (7 full days, or MAY 31), I will choose someone new.
I will contact winners on MAY 25. So make sure you keep your ask box open.
Good luck!
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