MILK SNATCHER'S 1987 ANTI-GAY SPEECH

 

                                                                        

Another excerpt from my book Lavender Rising: 

An Intersectional History of the Queer Struggle

3.14 MILK SNATCHER

The Iron Lady ‘Thatcher the Milk Snatcher’ lost power in 1990 following her contempt of the workers during the poll tax fiasco. Her brain may well still be rotting in the Styx.

Prime Minister Thatcher was the victor of the highly colonialist Falkland Islands War in 1982, during which she received logistic support from the Chilean dictator and mass murderer Augusto Pinochet. In the process of the fighting, hundreds of abandoned young Argentinian soldiers were brutally killed and ARA General Belgrano (formerly USS Phoenix) was sunk by Royal Navy torpedoes outside territorial waters with the loss of 323 lives.

It is this aggressive, colonialist war-mongering, together with her consolidation of neo-liberalism with her mutual admirer President Ronald Reagan, which kept Thatcher in power. In the meantime, she was able to get away with insanity on the home front, in particular her treatment of the miners, her erasure of council housing, and her approval, in 1988, of Section 28. She lobbied for her friend, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile, to be knighted despite being warned about his behaviour by civil servants.

Thatcher was a powerful advocate for racism, advising the Australian foreign minister to beware of Asians, warning that his country should not end up like Fiji, where the Indian migrants have taken over. While trying to save Britain in economic terms, she put the country back at least a generation in many social respects.

See LGBT+Marketing (c2013) for a transcript and video of Thatcher’s infamous 1987 speech.

More recently, Andy H. commented

Quote: I will never forget this. Never. In 1987, I had only recently graduated from university and was wondering what career to pursue. I was thinking of enrolling on a teacher training course, and then this awful, bigoted, hateful BITCH came out with THIS. I probably would have made a good school teacher too. I genuinely loathed her and anyone who supported her. 

LGBT+Marketing (c2013) Maggie Thatcher’s Anti-Gay Speech (Youtube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VRRWuryb4k Accessed 19 April 2023