Classy gal.
Via Mirror:
Veteran Labour MP Glenda Jackson ripped in to Margaret Thatcher’s record as Prime Minister during today’s Commons debate.
She said the former Prime Minister had wrecked vast swathes of the country.
The Oscar-winning actress, loudly jeered by Tory MPs, said: “When I made my maiden speech a little over two decades ago, Margaret Thatcher had been elevated to the other place but Thatcherism was still wreaking, as it had wreaked for the previous decade – the most heinous, social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country, upon my constituency and my constituents.
“Our local hospitals were running on empty.
“Patients were staying on trolleys and in corridors.
“I tremble to think what the death rate for pensioners would have been this winter if that version of Thatcherism had been fully up and running this year.
“Our schools, parents, teachers, governors, even pupils, seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time fundraising in order to be able to provide basic materials, such as paper and pencils.
“The plaster on our classroom walls was kept in place by pupils artwork and miles and miles of sellotape. Our school libraries were dominated by empty shelves, very few books, and those books that were there were being held together by ubiquitious sellotape and offcuts from teachers’ wallpaper used to bind those volumes so that they could at least hang together.
“But by far the most dramatic and heinous demonstration of Thatcherism was certainly not only in London, but across the whole country in metropolitan areas, where every single shop doorway, every single night, became the bedroom, the living room, the bathroom for the homeless.