No. 62 Let’s Keep Carol Thatcher off our Screens

The vile anti-freedom, pro-tory, pro-fascist shitrag that is the Daily Mail, have this week all but run a campaign to get Carol Thatcher reinstated on our TV screens. Not a day has gone by without them publishing some form of article on their website, clearly stating which side of the fence they sit on in this matter.

Well to counter this I would like to start a campaign – right here, right now – to keep Carol Thatcher off our TV screens.

I suppose firstly I should explain who Carol Thatcher is and what it is she has done.

Well for those who don’t know, that surname is no unfortunate coincidence, she is indeed the daughter of Maggie Thatcher, despised former leader of this country and close friend of dead Chilean fascist dictator, Augusto Pinochet. Thatcher produced two offspring from her foul person, both at the same time incidentally. These were ‘The Honourable’ Sir Mark Thatcher, a crook who is barred from entering a number of countries and if there was any justice in this world would presently be rotting in an Equatorial Guinean jail, and his aforementioned twin sister, Carol.

Carol Thatcher was this week sacked from lightweight BBC teatime wallpaper, The One Show, presented by gargoyle impersonator, Adrian Chiles, for which she was an occasional reporter. The very public sacking was on account of her referring to black tennis player, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, as a ‘golliwog’. I should add that this comment was made in private following the recording of the show, and was leaked by somebody at the BBC for whatever reason.

Now comes the tricky part. Should she be sacked for what was a private comment made to the presenters and guests off-screen, one for which she was apparently admonished by those who were there? Well, there are arguments for either side of the case and it’s always amusing to see how quickly the Daily Mail jump to the defence of freedom of speech whenever racist language is involved, but one has to ask the question of whether the BBC – a publicly funded corporation- should be giving our money to somebody who in 2009 sees nothing wrong with calling a black person a ‘golliwog’?

It somewhat echoes the furore a few weeks back when it emerged that another brainless toff and heir to the throne of England, Prince Harry, had referred ‘affectionately’ to a fellow soldier as a ‘paki’. It’s not so much the intent that is in question here, as in both cases it’s probably true that there was no malicious or hardcore racist agenda, it’s the fact that these hooray Henrys, living the high life on public money seem to be so out of touch that they regard it as acceptable language. It’s basically an attitude of just because they have money, they can get away with whatever they bally well like – the legacy of the Rake’s club and all that came before it and has come ever since.

Anyway, back to the campaign: LET’S KEEP CAROL THATCHER OFF OUR SCREENS.

As I said, the Daily Mail has been particularly vocal in their support of her, which is typical of a newspaper that worships the ground her mother walks on. They even went as far as to publish an article on their website entitled ‘How the golliwog went from innocent children’s hero to symbol of bitter controversy’, a one-sided piece whose only purpose surely was to see how many times they could get away with using the word ‘wog’ in the name of ‘journalism’, whilst simultaneously delighting their vile readership.

Well my campaign spits back in their blackshirt eyes and bellows the contempt this long-time enemy of decent people (they initially came out in support of Adolf Hitler) and shabby excuse for a newspaper truly deserves.

The Daily Mail has been making particular noises that the whole sacking incident is a form of revenge by the BBC for past transgressions with her demonic mother. A claim the BBC wholeheartedly refutes.

Well you won’t get any such pussyfooting from me. My reasons for keeping Carol Thatcher off our TV screens are quite clear and thusly explained:

A) She is the daughter of Margaret Thatcher

B) She is an irritating toff with a voice that would drive a deaf man to sawing his own ears off with dull cheese wire and a mouth that could chew an apple through a letterbox

C) She is the daughter of Margaret Thatcher

Yes. It all comes down to that woman at the end of the day. Carol Thatcher is the ghastly reminder of the mad Baroness and her foul legacy. And if you say, “shut up, you old lefty, get your mentality out of eighties, we’ve moved on.” I will counter that with, “No we fucking haven’t.”

Why are there no jobs now? The recession? Yes. The clueless pricks in power? Yes. The greed, greed, greed and more greed displayed by the bankers downwards? Yes. Thatcher and the Tories? Yes.

She destroyed industry in this country. She promoted greed. She rewarded the selfish. She decimated communities.

Of her many vile achievements there is one, when all is said and done, that will be her crowning achievement. Her one resounding success above all the other shit she rained down on us.

Closing the pits? Neutering the trade unions? Selling off the family silver? Destroying industry? Parading a fascist dictator (Pinochet) in front of us as though there’s nothing wrong in that? Making the quality of life for millions of people a lot worse?

No. She managed to completely destroy solidarity between the working classes. There has been and always will be those that forget where they came from. The blacklegs, the gaffer’s snitches… those types. But once there was a certain amount of power within a workforce. Not anymore though. Except for in small pockets here and there, it is largely every man for himself and sod the rest. She broke the Unions, riding roughshod over laws instated to protect workers and in doing so robbed us of our voice. As an ex-toolmaker (another trade now all but obsolete thanks to her love of cheap foreign imports), I saw firsthand blokes who’d just given up. I’ve no idea of what their politics were during the 70s and 80s, nor was it any of my business, but one thing is certain – they were content to take whatever was thrown at them from management (be it unreasonable demands or abuse) because there was no longer an alternative.

Margaret Thatcher famously said, “There’s no such thing as society”, and by Christ, she’s bloody well right! She destroyed it!

So let’s show our contempt for her and keep her rancid daughter off our TV screens.

Feel free to show your support.

There you go, Daily Mail. That’s balanced reporting for you.

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