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THE SHARP-FEATURED Margaret Thatcher puppet pictured here will be remembered well (if perhaps not fondly) by many TV viewers of a certain age; in fact, it’s quite possible the caricature haunted more than a few nightmares.
The Thatcher puppet – handbag swinging by her side, two-fingered salute always at the ready – was the runaway star of satirical show Spitting Image, which was hugely popular in the UK and Ireland throughout the 1980s. After the departure from the political scene of the ‘Iron Lady’ in 1990, ratings steadily declined (there was only so much interest a grey, pea-loving John Major could generate) and the show was eventually axed in 1996.
So, in the (admittedly unlikely) event that you’ve always dreamed of owning a life-sized figure of a deceased British prime minister, now’s your chance: she goes under the hammer this Saturday at the Whyte’s ‘History, Literature and Collectibles’ Auction at the Freemason’s Hall on Dublin’s Molesworth Street.
One snag – you’ll to have more than a few euros to spare: the reserve is set at €1,500.
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Well done on completing the film. Will seek it out.
The unfortunate thing is, politicians only pretend to care what people think at one time. Election time. The rest of the time, people are an annoyance to be kept at a distance. They have police keeping the public well away from the public servants and a media to keep them dumb. No amount of protest was going to stop that, or any other war. As long as there’s profit to be made, the march of war will continue.
It didn’t make a blind bit of difference which shows that it is a mirage of democKracy that those who we ‘elect’ to be in charge or ‘represent’ our view are not in charge at all. It is the military-industrial might that is and it doesn’t give a tinker’s curse about civilisation.
That was the first protest I took any of my children. It felt like a special day. If it didn’t stop the war, it did help people understand that public mobilisation in large scale is possible, and it helped unmask the true interests of politicians, which are not the same as the public’s.
It’s people like this that allow groups like ISIS or Al Qaeda to grow with their attitudes of appeasement.
More like a continuous cosying up to the wrong type of dictator, interfering in internal conflict and arming the wrong sides, making ‘Hitlers’ out of local bullies and waging illegitimate wars and continuously bombing a region for it’s natural resources facilitates organisations like ISIS or Al Qaeda to warp alienated and confused people into committing atrocities.
Anti-War = Pro-ISIS ?? Good one Darryl..
Nah, I prefer to remember staying up all night watching shock & awe rock Baghdad. Nothing special about a bunch of crusties and easily swayed people gathering in one large group.
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