#fuck u maggie thatcher

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i have a question about matty’s shirt. i know nothing about british politics or anything related to the sort. but why are people saying stuff already on twt? i seen that the shirt is a sex pistol merch worth more than my paycheck 😭

ahhh yes, I kinda expected that to happen when I saw the shirt ahahah. I had no idea it was sex pistols merch, and I think a lot of people will have no idea and just see Margaret thatcher!

so, Margaret thatcher was our first woman prime minister over here, and she was a fucking evil woman. here are just a few of the ways she destroyed Britain during her time as prime minister;

she is the PM who started out massive inequality in Britain. before she was in office, Britain was a pretty equal country, but by the time she left, we were one of the most inequal countries.

she halved the income tax for the rich whilst absolutely destroying benefits, making the poor even poorer.

during her time in office, the percentage of people living under the poverty line went from 13% to 22%, and child poverty doubled.

she sold off massive assets for Britain, including our oil assets in the North Sea, to make up for the lack of tax the rich were paying.

the housing crisis we see today is due to thatcher. In 1980, she created the housing act to sell council homes to their tennants at a dicount rate. which might sound good, but since then, over 2 million council homes have been sold, and less than 5% have been replaced by the government, taking homes from people that need them. homelessness is at an all time high, and she's the one who started it off.

the main thing thatcher is known for is her destruction of workers' rights. under her government, 15% of British industry was wiped out (eg., manufacturing and steel). This disproportionately affected the North of England, putting millions of people out of jobs. people lost their houses by her doing this, putting them in massive debt and just destroying their lives.

the unemployment rate due to this rose by more than 3 million people. she destroyed unions within trades and made workers strike borderline impossible.

thatcher also created section 28, a law that suppressed the lgbtq+ community MASSIVELY. it banned local authorities from "promoting homosexuality." This meant that it couldn't be discussed in any state schools or be taught/discussed by local councils. this law stayed until 2003, which just stunted the many young queer people from being able to grow.

anyway, thatcher was a VERY controversial figure. when she died, "ding dong the witch is dead" charted number one in the UK, which tells you how people felt ahahah.

BUT MATTY IS IN NO WAY PROMOTING HER, LETS GET THAT CLEARRRRR!! as you said, it's band merch. but people are stupid and don't do even 1 second of research before spewing their opinion. matty is northern. He has nothing but hate in his heart for that woman, I'm sure.

[candyredterezii]

maggie thatcher had needs too, u right anon. the need to shut the fuck up 😏🙄

the need to be rotting in hell <3