Sadly, he first heard from a jubilant lefty:
My tour of my local brewery is rather spoiled by our tour guide punching the air with glee at the news of Margaret Thatcher's end. What kind of human glories in another's death?
I felt compelled to reply:
To be fair, I probably would have celebrated the deaths of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin.
The real question is how people can possibly view Thatcher that way.
The sad fact is that far too many of my compatriots are misguided or downright malevolent. Blinded by tribalism, indoctrination or self-interest, they can't see all the good that Thatcher did for Britain.
To my surprise, and to their credit, the BBC's documentary 'Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister' was really quite respectful.
DK's brief obituary is worth quoting in full, as it nicely sums up my own view:
No, Mrs Thatcher was not a libertarian. But she at least understood that the money that governments' spend is sweated from the toil of the individuals who earn it.
And no, Mrs Thatcher was no infallible goddess. But compared to what came before and (most especially) after, she may as well have been.
And no, Mrs Thatcher did not do everything right: but she had a vision that rose above that of merely lining her own pockets, and she had the balls to see it through.
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