The lady is not for turning II
19 Abril, 2013
Nos blogs de direita lêem-se por estes dias muitos elogios a Margaret Thatcher. Que venceu o socialismo interno, que travou o declínio da Inglaterra e que venceu o comunismo internacional. Mas raramente é referido o principal instrumento dessas vitórias: austeridade extrema com medidas pró-ciclicas a meio de uma recessão mundial. A direita admira Thatcher, mas tem vergonha das suas políticas.
BLASFÉMIAS 
Não se trata somente de uma certa direita em justificado sobressalto de consciência: a decência, independentemente da ideologia política, envergonha-se das traves mestras das políticas de Thatcher que trataram de abrir e normalizar os descalabros que eclodiram esplendorosamete em 2008.
Políticas que definiram os «bordéis financeiros» como referências morais para desenhar a globalização, e que até lhes caucionaram a auto-regulação.
A miopia mental e a falta de sofisticação intelectual (para não imputar perversidade…) na abordagem da complexidade intrincada dos conceitos e mecanismos estruturadores, formatadores e dinamizadores das mega-comunidades modernas acarreta consequências como as que vivemos actualmente no ocidente, como consequência da «sementeira» dos anos 80.
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Correcto.
Ademais é enganadora a campanha que enfatiza o legado de Thatcher no quadro da luta pela emancipação feminina e pela igualdade de género, principalmente porque esta preocupação, a ter existido, viva na periferia daquele que é o verdadeiro legado partilhado por Thatcher e Reagan: a disseminação do neo-liberalismo radical enquanto paradigma dominante da economia política mundial, num ataque severo e fechado a toda e qualquer alternativa de esquerda.
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Um território interessante de explorar – no âmbito do estudo da psicologia social, nomeadamente, no condicionamento dos indivíduos pelo comportamento do grupo / pensamento dominante – seria indagar até que ponto esta comunicação social esquerdista influencia, formata, a chamada “opinião pública” e o cidadão comum.
Também seria interessante aferir até que ponto, a mesma CS, ao criar um clima hostil e inibidor para a voz / pensamento daqueles mais desalinhados com a agenda do jornalismo militante, condicionar a oportunidade e possibilidades, de estes transmitirem a sua visão.
Por ex.: pensem nos noticiários televisivos, na rádio e jornais – será que a representatividade da esquerda mais radical no “espaço mediático”, não é completamente desproporcionada em relação à sua representatividade junto do “povo”? Será que os 5% de votos / população, correspondem ao “espaço” que as redacções e jornalismo lhes atribui?
http://jornalismoassim.blogspot.pt/2013/02/o-wishful-thinking-das-redaccoes-vs-o.html
Disclaimer: Esta opinião é de alguém que anda pelos blogs e prefere identificar-se por Murphy…
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a esquerda e a direita deviam andar no mesmo taxi.
em França rigor é o eufemismo de austeridade.
se esta revolução socialista fosse uma democracia o país não tinha falido 3 vezes.
sócrates, guterres e vitinho não assistem às comemorações dos 40 anos do ps.
veremos quantos fundadores acompanham o boxexas. provavelmente só o liberto
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Tatcher reduziu as taxas de imposto sobre o rendimento.
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Thatcher remembered: The ‘Poll Tax’ protester Tommy Sheridan
STV Local 17 April 2013 06:00 BST
Polls apart: Tommy Sheridan believes Margaret Thatcher’s controversial ‘community charge’ contributed to her downfall.© STV
Tommy Sheridan. Secretary of Pollok Anti-Poll Tax Union, Chair of Scottish and All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation. Tommy Sheridan, jailed for six months for attending a warrant sale demonstration in Turnbull Street on October 1, 1991. By the time John Major called time on the community charge in 1992, he had become one of the most recognised faces in Scottish and UK politics. Here he shares his memories of Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in Scotland.
“One thing needs to be made clear. The poll tax demonstrations weren’t a call to arms by the Labour Party or the Anti-Poll Tax Union or Tommy Sheridan.
The anti-poll tax demos were the result of one thing. Poverty – and that was a poverty caused by one woman and her politics, Thatcher.
She came to power in 1979 and before Thatcher and Thatcherism, someone of my generation, someone growing up in Pollok, didn’t know what the dole or unemployment was – or the apathy, despair, drugs and homelessness that it led to.
Hers was a politic that was a horrific turn on Robin Hood, robbing the poor and giving to the rich.
The Community Charge, or the Poll Tax, was this in excess. It represented the most graphic attempt to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich.
All of a sudden a normal Glasgow family living in a tenement would find themselves paying more to keep a roof over their heads while someone in a mansion would be paying less.
When it was announced that Scotland would become the guinea pig for this new regime then fear of poverty was followed by resentment and revolt. This was where Margaret Thatcher set her downfall.
Until then, Thatcher had picked her fights individually. There was the miners, the steelworkers, all of these different groups who she had taken on separately and beaten. But this time she was taking on everyone together.
For the campaigners it was a matter of telling everyone that she couldn’t hurt society if society all stuck together.
People talk of the miners’ 12 months of strike action which brought communities together as a civil war without the bullets, and it was. It brought whole communities together.
The anti Poll Tax campaign was another act of civil war. Except this time it was a whole nation that was brought together.
And they did come together.
We started with hundreds of people taking part in marches and demonstrations but it quickly grew to tens of thousands and to give it some perspective, by 1989 there were one million people involved in the non-payment campaign.
One million people in Scotland alone refusing to pay this new tax – and that was despite the fear of warrant sales, of officers breaking into people’s homes and taking their goods, things they had worked hard and saved to buy.
It was the warrant sale protest in October 1 1991 that led to me going to jail but it was worth it.I had been interdicted from attending a proposed warrant sale against a lone parent who could not afford to pay her Poll Tax.
Her seized goods would were to be sold at an auction and 300 of us attended to demonstrate and to stop it going ahead.
I went to prison for six months but it helped stopped the officers and the Government humiliating a lone parent. The fact that, to this day, not a single warrant sale has taken place is truly uplifting.
What is inspiring is that those Poll Tax demonstrations, which started in Scotland and then moved to England and Wales, showed the power of society working together.
Thatcher was seen as unbreakable and too powerful to be taken on. But when the rest of Britain reacted in the same way as Scotland and the number of non-payments stretched to millions of people, the poll tax proved unworkable – and she was no longer the Iron Lady.
It helped bring an end to Margaret Thatcher’s reign and brought an end to Thatcherism.
But the poll tax isn’t Margaret Thatcher’s true legacy. Her true legacy is giving birth to New Labour.”
STV Local reporting team: Neil Drysdale, Graham Fraser, Kayleigh McLeod, Douglas Barrie, Jonathan Rennie, Kris Gilmartin, Laura McLean, Greig Gallagher & Ian Hendry.
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Para que palavras ? estes foram os anos da defunta
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Agora que já enterraram/queimaram a bruxa velha não vale a pena continuares a fazer propaganda dela.
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Em Liverpool houve celebração a condizer
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-04-13/liverpool-fans-wave-anti-thatcher-banners-at-match/
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Porque é que os contribuintes ingleses têm de pagar o funeral da bruxa?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/margaret-thatcher-funeral-protests-photos-1837644
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ó João essa não …. uma noite mal dormida não ?
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“A direita admira Thatcher, mas tem vergonha das suas políticas.”
Ó caro João Miranda, eu acho que até Thatcher viveu o resto dos seus dias envergonhada das suas políticas. Só de ver Blair, o seu herdeiro (apesar de ser do partido da oposição), devia pensar muitas vezes: “meu Deus, a figura que eu fazia!”
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