Eeeeh... SH was very left wing of course, red not pink, but in its beginnings multiculturalism wasn't the annoying thing you take it for, more a tentative step in the right direction. Later it was vulgarized by politicians and others who sought personal advantage by citing it.
It was a bit unfair and misleading, that Guardian obit headline. I'd have gone for coiner of the term Thatcherism. But daily press deadlines are relentless and young hacks these days don't know who the people are. It isn't necessarily their fault.
He'd have charmed you too Rastaman. And persuaded you a bit. No civilized British person was immune really.
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There was a good one too new