"Thatcherism wreaked the most heinous, social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country"
"It’s a pity she did not start building more and more social houses after she entered into the right to buy, so perhaps there would have been fewer homeless people than there were"
"During her era London became a city Hogarth would have recognised"
"We were told it was going to be called Care in the Community. What in effect it was was no care at all in the community"
"Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue"
"If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from”
"People knowing under those (Thatcher) years the price of everything and the value of nothing"
"I’m beginning to see possibly the re-emergence of that total traducing of what I regard as being the basis of the spiritual nature of this country, where we do care about society, where we do believe in communities, where we do not leave people to walk by on the other side"
"If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from”
Jackson was jeered and booed by Tory MPs, with Tony Baldry arguing in a point of order that her speech was against the "conventions of the House" as "this is not and has never been a general debate on the memory of the person who has been deceased, but an opportunity for tribute".
But John Bercow, the speaker, rejected the criticisim, stating that "nothing unparliamentary has occured ... We are debating a motion that says ‘this House has considered the matter of tributes to the Baroness Thatcher’ - that is what we are doing and nothing has got in the way of that."
"It’s a pity she did not start building more and more social houses after she entered into the right to buy, so perhaps there would have been fewer homeless people than there were"
"During her era London became a city Hogarth would have recognised"
"We were told it was going to be called Care in the Community. What in effect it was was no care at all in the community"
"Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue"
"If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from”
"People knowing under those (Thatcher) years the price of everything and the value of nothing"
"I’m beginning to see possibly the re-emergence of that total traducing of what I regard as being the basis of the spiritual nature of this country, where we do care about society, where we do believe in communities, where we do not leave people to walk by on the other side"
"If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from”
Jackson was jeered and booed by Tory MPs, with Tony Baldry arguing in a point of order that her speech was against the "conventions of the House" as "this is not and has never been a general debate on the memory of the person who has been deceased, but an opportunity for tribute".
But John Bercow, the speaker, rejected the criticisim, stating that "nothing unparliamentary has occured ... We are debating a motion that says ‘this House has considered the matter of tributes to the Baroness Thatcher’ - that is what we are doing and nothing has got in the way of that."
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We are still fighting the greed for wealth and power ande the loss of strong public services whose role is to serve the public for the greater good. Let us hope that the death of Thatcher might see the turning of the tide in order we retreat from individualism and back to an even stronger and healthier civil society.
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