Nation honoured Margaret Thatcher for a reason

I too have lived in Finchley for nearly 30 years and in fact I live in Margaret Thatcher’s old constituency, but I take this opportunity to reply to the mean-spirited but rather typical polemic from a NUT commentator.

I am not a member of the current Conservative Party but I was during the period when Mrs Thatcher was Prime Minister and was at that time a very sharp-end political activist in the Wood Green constituency, specialising in education, Europe and local government funding.

Mr O’Byrne’s politically motivated diatribe with certainty can be traced back to Mrs Thatcher and the late 80s and early 90s with good reason.

It was she that identified that ‘the loony left’ had infiltrated the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) and her response was to protect our children from Marxist ideology and simply and immediately shut the whole outfit down.

Once the evidence, and there was loads of it, including anti-British and anti-police propaganda, targeted at every age group, was shown to the Education Secretary, it was a no-brainer. ILEA ceased to exist. She did exactly the same with old Labour’s gravy train in the GLC. She closed it down because the taxpayer should not have to pay the wages of Labour’s hundreds of political activists.

Naturally, the left at the time squealed like stuck pigs and it would appear if you get behind Mr Byrne’s thought processes, convenient memory and outright nasty comments about someone unable to defend either herself or her legacy, they still are.

Would Mrs Thatcher have opened our borders to hundreds of thousands of economic migrants from all over impoverished Europe? Not in a million years. Would she have allowed the Human Rights Act to be abused by a corrupt legal profession to defend terrorists at vast expense, to stay in this country whilst being entirely parasitic upon our taxpayers? Once again, extremely unlikely.

There have been dozens of prime ministers over the centuries and you can count on one hand how many received a state funeral. The nation honoured that lady because, if nothing else, she was totally protective of our national sovereignty, the British nation and all its citizens.

In short, she was a true patriot who would have done all she could to allow freedom of speech.

It is true that Finchley is overrun by East Europeans, etc, and ethnic change has been both rapid and terminal. I was never consulted on that decision. It was taken by Tony Blair and the ill-informed electorate who vote tribally (for New Labour) and who pay for his corporate corruption in unemployment and the enforced minority status, which Mr O’Byrne declares triumphantly still vote Labour. It’s like lemmings paying their replacements before they jump off a cliff. Old left? New Labour? Who cares. It’s the same old nonsense.

Mrs Thatcher enabled the working man to get on the housing ladder and earn money without trade union interference, once again the left cried foul as they always do but would you want to work down a mine when other industries could be created? In that context it was Tony Blair that opened our borders and has driven wages through the floor. It was Blair that embroiled us in illegal wars and made us targets for global jihadists. Mrs Thatcher would never have allowed that and nor would she have had anything to do with the current version of Quisling Conservatism masquerading as a Tory Party under David Cameron.

If someone had an idea to name a building or park after her in her old constituency, out of respect for her achievements, it is inevitable that ‘the old maggots’ will crawl out of the woodwork to spout left wing bile against her. Sadly it happened in Parliament after she died.

I felt obliged to reply to Mr O’Byrne out of common decency, even though I have nothing to do with the Conservative Party anymore. However, unlike Mr O’Byrne, I have set out my stall, perhaps in reply to this rebuttal he will now put all his ‘left wing’ cards on the table and do the same.

Malcolm Glynn BA (Hons)

Mountfield Road, Finchley