The Smiths -legenda Steven Patrick Morrissey muistelee 8. huhtikuuta 2013 menehtynyttä rautarouva Margaret Hilda Thatcheria ”erityisellä lämmöllä”.
The Daily Beastin julkaisema kirjoitus alkaa räväkästi otsikolla ”Thatcher Was A Terror Without An Atom Of Humanity”. Esimerkiksi rautarouva-lempinimeä Morrissey selittää sillä, ettei Thatcher suostunut itsepäisyytensä vuoksi kuuntelemaan muita.
– Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the ivory trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own cabinet booted her out. Morrissey kirjoittaa.
– Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death.
Morrissey ei tietenkään ole ainoa brittiläinen Thatcherin poismenoa ei-niin-paljon-sureva-muusikko. Ehkä pisimmälle meni Frankie & The Heartstrings -yhtye, jonka Twitter-viesti kuului tyhjentävästi: ”Cunt’s dead.”
Toki niitä toisinajattelijoitakin löytyy. The Spice Girlsin Geri Halliwell muistelee: ”Thinking of our 1st Lady of girl power, Margaret Thatcher, a green grocer’s daughter who taught me anything is possible.”