[garinda]

Originally Posted by mobertol

I think my working class grandmother, brought up in an ardently socialist household, whose husband luckily came back from the war and helped her bring up two small children while they were both working and not economically challenged...would never have voted Tory, but then she didn't have the same problems.

She hated Mrs T with a vehemence which I can still remember and which is recalled in one of my Grandad's letters to me where he says she was in the background, as he was writing, going on about how she'd personally chuck Maggie Thatcher in the canal if she ever set foot in Accrington -this over the Pole tax BTW!

She never forgave my mother for voting Tory and keeping Thatcher in power -my mum saw her as a strong positive female role. Which possibly she was in her day -no female PM's since here anyway...

I dtested Thatcher, and all she stood for.

However I fear the history books will record her as being the post-war Prime Minister...with the biggest bollocks.