The Dark Side of Thatcherism

Peter Oborne is a British journalist, a committed right-winger who describes himself as a Conservative and who was, until last year, chief political editor of the Daily Telegraph. He now works for the Daily Mail, the British newspaper that, until 1939, openly supported Hitler and the Nazis, and, if Hitler was still alive today would undoubtedly still support him. He is also a committed opponent of Scottish Independence. He is therefore not the kind of person that I would invite for dinner. However, peculiarly for a Tory, he seems to have a conscience and a sense of morality as many of his positions are adopted from his stated commitment to the rule of law and his departure from the Telegraph was because he resigned, accusing the Telegraph of defrauding its readers by suppressing stories about the activities of major companies and corporations for commercial reasons. This type of behaviour is very unusual for a Tory as they normally believe that the law is only for the little people, and, as I continually warn you, work unceasingly to undermine any law that they consider a constraint on their never ending quest for unlimited power and wealth. Tories have neither any sense of moral fibre or any hesitation to lie shamelessly, and, they have a pathological hatred of working people and reserve a special loathing of the labour movement. As a result, when Oborne voices criticism of the Conservatives and government policies, I do not simply dismiss him, as, once again extremely rare for any Tory, he seems to be quite honest.

For those of you who read this from outside the UK, there has been an ongoing and long-term dispute surrounding two major events in recent British history concerning the behaviour of the British police and their collusion with and identification with Conservative governments and their policies. These are the Hillsborough disaster where 96 Liverpool football supporters lost their lives, and the 1984-85 miners strike. Hillsborough is the name of Sheffield Wednesday's stadium that was the venue for a football match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, and a major inquest by jury into the Hillsborough disaster has just concluded that completely exonerated the Liverpool supporters and exposed police criminality, involving perjury, tampering with police personal notebooks, interfering with witnesses etc. However, this disaster also involved collusion between the police and the government of Margaret Thatcher who personally intervened to praise the police and support their claims, whilst her office fed lies and smears to the British press. What is possibly worse is that these lies and smears have been maintained right up till now and has led to the dismissal of the Chief Constable in South Yorkshire.

The other event, the miners strike, involved the same police force, the South Yorkshire Police, and the Hillsborough inquiry has led to demands that the events at Orgreave, which lies just outside Sheffield, are reopened and subject to another Inquiry. This involved a confrontation between the police and striking miners which we now know involved a very close collusion between the police and Thatcher herself as well as other prominent members of her government. With respect to the Orgreave incident, Peter Oborne has now publicly called for a proper investigation of these events. He stated that an Inquiry was not a sufficient method of investigation and insisted that it must be done by a Royal Commission because he stated that there was a very real collusion between the State, the police and the media during the miners strike and that the events at Orgreave exposed what he termed the "dark side of the Thatcher era". During the Orgreave confrontation 95 miners were arrested and charged with riot and other offences and every one of the cases was thrown out by the British judiciary because the evidence against them was so obviously fabricated. Such revelations have caused Oborne to comment that "some things went very, very wrong during the Thatcher era."

I mention these things because they are evidence of what I write to you about. When people like Peter Oborne are publicly evidencing what I write to you about the Tories it is time people began to take more notice. You see, whilst Oborne highlights the dark side of the Thatcher era, I am unaware of a bright side. She was a genuinely bad person whose policies have brought Britain to the edge of ruin and have heralded an era where morality has been purged from political and economic life and her acolytes operate from an ethical vacuum. We are still having a debate as to whether we will accept the 3,000 parentless refugee children I wrote about last week. This government are truly disgusting and Oborne's only problem is that he cannot seem to see that what went very, very wrong during the Thatcher era has gotten steadily worse since. Still I commend him for his honesty and look forward to a Royal Commission on Orgreave. Things are so bad in Yorkshire that prominent people are calling for the South Yorkshire Police Force to be disbanded . However, they were only doing Thatcher's bidding, both at Orgreave and at Hillsborough. You have been warned

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