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In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
- Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister 1979-1990
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Margaret Thatcher statue egged just few hours after installation
[Video] Margaret Thatcher statue egged just few hours after installation
(Sunday, 15 May 2022) That didn’t take long! Following fears that the new statue of Margaret Thatcher would attract egg throwing protests (as “promised” on various social media platforms) came true just a few hours after its installation in the town of Grantham where she was born and raised and later went on to become Britain’s Prime Minister and one of the most hated political figures in British history.
Interestingly enough, the bronze statue was installed without a ceremony on a 3-metre base, to protect it from people’s acts of “appreciation, respect and affection”, since back in 2021, when it was revealed that there were plans to use £100,000 of taxpayers’ money for an unveiling ceremony of a Margaret Thatcher statue a Facebook group proposed an egg-throwing contest, which attracted 13,000 expressions of interest.
It has to be reminded that back in 2002 a marble statue of Margaret Thatcher in London was attacked with a cricket bat and decapitated with a metal bar. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ouJEZ3V33l0
Margaret Thatcher statue egged just few hours after installation
[Βίντεο] Δεν πέρασαν 2 ώρες από τα αποκαλυπτήρια του αγάλματος της Θάτσερ και του έριξαν αυγά
Margaret Thatcher statue egged just few hours after installation
Margaret Thatcher statue egged just few hours after installation
[Video] Margaret Thatcher statue egged just few hours after installation
(Sunday, 15 May 2022) That didn’t take long! Following fears that the new statue of Margaret Thatcher would attract egg throwing protests (as “promised” on various social media platforms) came true just a few hours after its installation in the town of Grantham where she was born and raised and later went on to become Britain’s Prime Minister and one of the most hated political figures in British history.
Interestingly enough, the bronze statue was installed without a ceremony on a 3-metre base, to protect it from people’s acts of “appreciation, respect and affection”, since back in 2021, when it was revealed that there were plans to use £100,000 of taxpayers’ money for an unveiling ceremony of a Margaret Thatcher statue a Facebook group proposed an egg-throwing contest, which attracted 13,000 expressions of interest.
It has to be reminded that back in 2002 a marble statue of Margaret Thatcher in London was attacked with a cricket bat and decapitated with a metal bar.
Skagboys is the prequel to Irvine Welsh’s phenomenal 1993 novel Trainspotting which was later immortalised by Danny Boyle’s feature film in 1996. Welsh later followed the success of Trainspotting with other novels and short stories, most of which are based in the familiar setting of Edinburgh and Leith.
There is much to enjoy about Skagboys. It is always nice to revisit memorable characters but the general subject matter is not largely different from Trainspotting itself. Skagboys details the lives of Renton, Sick Boy and Spud amongst others as they embark on heroin addiction. It hints at the choices people make which change their lives and the political and social circumstances which led to drug abuse being so prevalent in 1980s Scotland.
Typically Thatcherite policy bears the brunt of the blame. A growing underclass with no possibilities or hope of progression are easy fodder for the escape which heroin promises but ultimately fails to deliver. The death of working class values leads the majority of the book’s characters down a road to oblivion, be it drugs or in the case of Begbie, extreme and at times indiscriminate violence.
Renton’s character is perhaps the most interesting in this book. He throws away a promising university career and beautiful girlfriend for the aimlessness and depression which drug addiction is certain to bring. Whether or not it is because of his childhood or disabled brother’s persistent struggle against illness is ambiguous. It seems that Welsh leaves readers open to wonder if many users begin drug habits just for the sheer fun or curiosity of it.
Skagboys is a lot less enjoyable than Porno, the 2002 sequel to Trainspotting which brought out the more humorous and debaucherous side of Welsh’s writing. It may be a worthwhile read for fans of his work but there is little in it to merit publication as it is all familiar and well tread territory. Having said that, Welsh remains one of modern fiction’s most ambitious writers and anything he has published deserves the benefit of the doubt.
