An outpouring..........
Oh what a horrible person you are!
What a spiteful, evil, heartless woman.
A woman who has stabbed this country
And has slowly let it bleed.
There is no recovering from your malicious ways,
The crimes you inflicted, the price we’ll need to pay
Is beyond any sense of pardon.
You took pleasure in the despair of others,
Happy in the knowledge that you’d bludgeoned the poor.
Happy that you could grind them down,
You are rotten to the core.
Oh what a horrible, self-centred person you are!
All that we had, you decided to sell
To make you and your friends richer
While everyone else lived in hell.
Yet people still champion your cause
People still celebrate your life
But you committed the worst of sins
You destroyed our hope, and you created our strife
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blimey
Written by fellpony (1715 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | | the woman's been out of power for years and you still feel this way? |
Written by Veronica_Milvus (749 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | Ah Mr Soul! Are you even old enough to remember Mrs Thatcher or what life was like before her, or have you been taken in by the propaganda?
She was not a pleasant woman, personally, but if you could remember doing your homework by candlelight, your father only being able to work 3 days out of 5 because the power stations ran out of coal in the (first) miners strike, the machinations of Red Robbo which helped to kill our car industry - you would know that something had to be done about the unions. That, I think will be her abiding epitaph.
You call her nasty and whatever but your poem gives no evidence of what she did that was so awful, except a passing reference to privatisation, which on reflection may not have been so bad.
My advice to you is that if you set out to vilify someone in verse, be specific. At the moment your evidence would not stand up in a court of law. |
Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3566 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | | I must a agree with FP. It's time you got over it. She is a good example of the saying that All political careers end in failure. At least with Thatcher you knew where you stood with her.She was for the rich and powerful. My contempt is for Blair who betrayed his party and socialist roots when he got to power and even Thatcher in all her pomp didn't do to the health service what Blair and Brown have done. A plague on the lot of them!! | P.S
Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3566 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | | I just want to add that I hated her and all she stood for in case I get put into the same camp as veronica as an apologist for the woman |
Written by Fledermaus (3487 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | Perhaps a horrible leader, but usually a very strong woman too. I was rather young when she was in charge, and living on the other side of the water, I didn't really know what her policies were like, yet I do remember two incidents: Firstly that towards the end of her reign, she wanted to introduce a certain tax and people stormed and vandalized the House of Commons and secondly, that she went to negotiate with Deng Xiaoping and she literally fell down on her knees on the stairs of the forbidden city.
Yet apart from those two incidents she usually came across as a very strong woman, and someone people loved to satirize. Doesn't she (well, someone playing her of course) even appear in James Bond somewhere? | FAO fledermaus .....
Written by Bagheera (683 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | ....... the REAL judgement of MT's influence , IMHO, is the fact that she was deemed important enough to be the first (???ONLY???) female personage who became part of impressionist MIKE YARWOOD's repertoire .........   |
Written by maipenrai (784 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | | one of my last ambitions in life is to shit on the bitche's grave | God awful.....
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | Amidst this outpouring of devout pigsticking perhaps it would be useful to recall three things.
Firstly this is barely a poem, if at all. It is a trite and banal bellow at best and, at worst , the kind of unimaginative, boorish rant you would't give house room on the terraces.
Secondly whatever the merits or demerits of Margaret Thatcher, they deserve to be aired in a much more dispassionate way than sicked up one sided and feeble, hic repetiter, all over some freebe website.
And thirdly, Mr Soul, I suggest you try to give yourself at least some semblence of credibility and not make a total, twittering ass of yourself by baring your arse for all to see in public. Its not a pretty sight and makes a disinterested observer presume you are a complete dumbo adolescent incapable of producing anything remotely worth reading. Which I am sure is not true; but on your truely appalling postings thus far has me wondering.
Slan! |
Written by Veronica_Milvus (749 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | BBS; I am not an apologist for Thatcher. In my last post on this board I described myself as "the only socialist in the village". My point is that mr soul titles his poem "so much to answer for" and then didn't tell us what those things are. So his "poem" is reduced to a playgriound name-calling session. If we got specific we could certainly provide a lot of evidence to support mr soul's view that she was not nice and neither were many of her policies.
Gerard is not a very constructive critic, but I do agree that, mr soul, you do not yet have an understanding of when something is poetry and when something is just a jumbly rant. At the risk of provoking Gerard's derision I would commend the famous Stephen Fry book - The Ode Less Travelled - or some similar book - to you if you want to understand how poetry has been written and has evolved over the last 1000 years or so. Then you might recognise that your work is not yet poetry.
And if you want to read some good "free verse" try Walt Whitman or perhaps the Mersey beat poets, Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, as a place to start. |
Written by mr_soul (126 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | From Gerard, I don't expect anything less. He has always been an arrogant, stuck up bully.
Anyway, this may be a "jumbly rant", I spent about five minutes on it and posted it almost immediately simply because Margaret Thatcher is one of the most despicable people ever to have graced our earth.
As for getting over it, how can we? Her influence on this country has been staggering. Her policies have damaged this country immensely. She, in my opinion, has turned a country that did consist of "society" into one which encourages people to only think about themselves.
As for her strength, yes she might have been a strong leader. But so was Hitler. Strong does not mean right.
Its interesting Veronica how you called yourself a socialist yet you said that "something had to be done about the unions" and that privitisation might have not been so bad. That seems a contradiction in terms I'm afraid. I doubt you're a socialist if you hold those views.
Anyway, thanks for all the comments, they were most appreciated.
Margaret Thatcher, so much to answer for. |
Written by Phil (6959 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | Content aside, for a moment - not a triumph in terms of poetry. Above, you say you wrote it in about five minutes and then posted immediately. If MT is so deserving of your ire, then surely the piece itself deserves a little spit and polish. If you really want to stick the knife in (and I agree, the bitch deserves it) surely you want to plunge deep and twist and not have weak structures and ideas that lessen impact.
Re content: a complete, self serving, bitch. She didn't rescue the country from the unions, she delivered it into the hands of the wealthy and corporations. I agree with V - you need to be far more specific. I also agree with BBS - perhaps something directed at the current lot might be worth a go.
On the writing front- excuses that the piece was just tossed off and posted (and you're not the first) don't wash.
Phil | Bloody hell!
Written by punchy (535 comments posted) 26th March 2008 | Calm down you lot, remind me never to write a political poem, not that I would!
Lay those poems on the page Mr Soul, even if you spit them out in a matter of seconds.
I've never heard such strong opinions about Thatcher since the re run of the young ones! |
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