WATCH: Activists Including University Art Centre Director Egg Thatcher Statue
Jack Montgomery 15 May 2022
Activists including a 59-year-old university arts centre director egged a statue of Britain’s first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, as it was installed in her home town of Grantham.
Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, as the greengrocer’s daughter became following her elevation to the House of Lords, won three consecutive British general elections in 1979, 1983, and 1987, being ousted not by the public but by an internal Conservative Partly coup led by europhile parliamentarians opposed to her increasingly eurosceptic stance.
Nevertheless, she remains a hate figure for much of the British left, in large part for her battles with the trade unionists for the country’s then-nationalised coal mines, and plans to install a statue of her in Parliament Square had to be abandoned due to fears it would not survive direction action by a “motivated far-left movement… who may be committed to public activism” — i.e. criminal vandalism.
The statue was instead installed in her home town of Grantham, Lincolnshire on Sunday, but even there is was not safe, with activists turning out to pelt it with eggs from behind a protective barrier.
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