Why do leftwingers in the UK consider Swinson to be a Yellow Tory?
She literally supported building a monument to Thatcher.
I'm leftist myself, but it cannot be denied that Thatcher was a very consequential Prime Minister in the United Kingdom and not in a Mussolini type way. So I don't think a monument would be undeserved, as leaders like Bill Clinton have them too.
This is such a bizarre way of thinking. What is it about being "consequential" that makes someone inherently deserving of the incredible honor of being immortalized in a public display? Consequences can be good or bad. Thatcher's "consequences" robbed hundreds of thousands of people of their jobs, livelihoods, and basic human dignity, and enabled an entire generation of policymakers around the world to do the same to God knows how many millions. I mean of course she wasn't as bad as Mussolini, but that's a mere difference of degree, not kind.
I seriously can't for the life of me understand what kind of servile reverence to power and authority leads people to want to bestow honors on someone they (presumably) agree made the world worse off, just because they were in power for a long time. Vile, disgusting people are still vile and disgusting even when they were PM for 10 years.
