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We've read (or skipped) your diatribes Reg.
Here's a post from an MEP, to balance it up.
Nirj Deva DL MEP Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England and former Member of Parliament for Chiswick Brentford and Hounslow
"I wept when I heard the news that Margaret Thatcher was no more. I wept for the passing away of a friend who had been immensely kind to me over my political career. That is quite natural but my tears were for something more.
Margaret Thatcher was unique, not because she was Britain's first woman Prime Minister, not because she virtually, single-handedly transformed a nation, not because fearlessly and tirelessly, she turned a bankrupt, strike ridden, nanny state into being at the forefront of global economic success and not because she valued freedom over serfdom, monetary and fiscal discipline over debt and individual rights over state dominance, but because she was beyond anything else a great human being.
That Margaret Thatcher was enormously kind, extremely caring, concerned and considerate are not characteristics associated in the popular mind with the "Iron Lady.' Behind that facade of cool aplomb, steely blue eyed looks and indefatigable determination lay a very gentle soul, almost motherly in her attitude with an innate insight into what each of us, individually, were capable of and could attain.
This scared some people but others, like myself, were for ever empowered by her.
I remember the occasion when, in 1987, having lost my first general election in Hammersmith by 2004 votes to the sitting Labour MP, I received a telephone call from the then Secretary of the Carlton Club, instructing me to stand next to Disraeli's old chair while the Prime Minister was delivering her speech, given on the eve of the State Opening of Parliament. Bemused by this request, but grumblingly acquiescing, I stood with my mother and sister who had come over for the campaign from Sri Lanka, listening to a triumphant speech by a Prime Minister returning to Government with a thumping majority of 102 seats, spearheaded by Norman Tebbit and Michael Dobbs' with the slogan "It's Great To Be Great Again".
Much to my astonishment, immediately after her speech she made a beeline to me, fixed me with that famous look and said: "You are NOT giving up." I stuttered "Prime Minister, this is my mother". Taking my mother's hand she smiled at her and said even more firmly "He is not to give up" and walked on.
I was astounded that in the midst of forming a new Government, attending to thousands of demands and decisions, she had taken the time and care to arrange that meeting, knowing how I must have felt having just lost. I and others have countless similar stories to tell of the Margaret Thatcher that neither the press nor the public know. Now that she has gone to a better place, I have no doubt she will be doing what she does best; caring".
Roger