Thatcher buttressed ugly criminal legacy
Margaret Thatcher buttressed an ugly policy of imperialism in the world arena and unleashed an egregious class war in Britain which is still raging, a prominent analyst says. - “The rightwing nihilistic capitalism that Thatcher gave vent to was and became a zeitgeist for North America, Europe and globally,” international affairs expert Finian Cunningham wrote in an article on Press TV website on Tuesday. The former British Prime Minister died on Monday at the age of 87 after suffering from a series of strokes. Cunningham added,
“Thatcher declared war on the British people themselves,” with her reign consisting of “snake-oil economic policies.” “She famously proclaimed that 'there was no such thing as society' and went on to oversee an explosion in the gap between rich and poor and the demolition of social conditions in Britain. That legacy has been amplified by both successive Conservative and Labour governments and is central to today’s social meltdown in Britain, more than two decades after Thatcher resigned.”
Cunningham added that as a result of Thatcher's policies, the rich became richer and the poor became more numerous and poorer.
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