‘They were almost as bad as the riots we saw in America in the 1960s and the 1970s’
Margaret Thatcher on the 1981 Brixton Riots (or what some people, in a mad fit of historical revisionism, call The Brixton Uprising) in The Downing Street Years.
I love that woman. Don’t you?
She also had a lot to say about Noraid. Remember that?
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Tags: civil unrest, Margaret Thatcher, Riots, The Downing Street Years
February 11, 2012 at 11:29 am |
The Tunisian people, killed ZERO, during their uprising, which succeeded in bringing down their dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.