Hey ho the witch is dead!

In 1988, the Thatcher government legislated Britain’s first new anti-gay law in 100 years: Section 28. At the 1987 Conservative party conference she mocked people who defended the right to be gay, insinuating that there was no such right. During her rule, arrests and convictions for consenting same-sex behaviour rocketed, as did queer bashing violence and murder. Gay men were widely demonised and scapegoated for the AIDS pandemic and Thatcher did nothing to challenge this vilification.
In more recent times the country has reaped the rewards of Thatcherism and is presently in the financial mess of the era she created. Next week a "ceremonial" sent off will follow the eulogies with no apologies for the sadness created by Section 28, the miners strike, the boom and bust years, the privatisation of the national assets, welfare cuts, taking milk from children, the war for the Falklands, highest unemployment since the 1930's and of course encouraging the ignorance of HIV/AIDS - what an inheritance - may she be put to rest but not in anyway peaceful for us all!