Thatcherism Sells – But Who’s Buying?

Given that the former UK PM Margaret Thatcher is up for auction next month, will it sell better than 1980s era Thatcherism? 

By: Ringo Bones

By December 2015, the late former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s wardrobe – about 150 lots in all – will all be up for auction at Christie’s. And given that Thatcherism was an easy sell – both politically and economically – back in the 1980s when the capitalist West was still toe-to-toe with the Warsaw-Pac countries at that stage of the Cold War, will “Thatcherism Memorabilia” in the form of his iconic wardrobes worn at the time, be an easy sell? 

Proceeds of the auction next moth will primarily benefit the former UK PM’s immediate family after the Victoria and Albert Museum declined to display the items for public viewing but inexplicably, it managed to generate overwhelming interest to everyone old enough to both remember and actually lived through Thatcherism. One of the items to be auctioned off was Baroness Thatcher’s iconic handbag which during her stint as the UK’s Prime Minister got her detractors accusing her of “hand-bagging” her political opponents. Another iconic item on the block was Thatcher’s pale beige raincoat by Aquascutum which was made famous as the “tank dress” that she wore when at the helm of a British Challenger tank during a NATO training maneuvers in the then West Germany as part of her campaign to gain global support for the Falklands War back in 1982 is estimated to go as high as 20,000 UK£. Given that the auction is a perfect example of Thatcherism par excellence – is there any change that it would be as “popular” as Katharine Hamnett’s “58 % DON’T WANT PERSHING” T-shirts of 1983? 

Since she passed away two and a half years ago, Margaret Thatcher did manage to generate interest to both of her critics and fans alike. Even the UK’s Official Secrets Act had to bare Thatcher’s “hair secrets” back in 2014 in order to allay the public’s “unanswered questions” with regards to Britain’s “Iron Lady”. 

Margaret Thatcher’s “Hair Secrets” Revealed At Last?

Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Cold war era hair secrets was just recently bared back in January 3, 2014 – is it a historically significant fact or a mere footnote? 

By: Ringo Bones 

Back in January 3, 2014 the UK’s National Archives – not the UK’s Official Secrets Act that we have all hoped for – finally revealed the late former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Cold war era hair secrets, as in 1980s era hairdo secrets. Given the 1,000-year history of the UK’s National Archives are the facts surrounding Thatcher’s “Cold War Era Hairdo Secrets” historically significant for posterity or a mere footnote to be poked fun at for late night talk show hosts around the world? 

For those who were old enough to remember the 1980s, it seems that the late former US President Ronald Reagan and the late former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher despite their close friendship that seems to be the bastion that protects the Capitalist West from the then – according to then US President Ronald Reagan – the “Evil Soviet Empire” were both seem to be in competition to be which global superpower has the best hairdo. And this “hair competition” seem to echo until this day where the hairdo of porn star Peter North seem to mimic that of the late former US President Ronald Reagan – even rumor has it that the famed male porn star Peter North was even an alleged bastard child of the late former US President Ronald Reagan. Does this explain about the then “Pornography Commission” set up by then US President Ronald Reagan with the then US Attorney General Edwin Meese III? 

Anyway, according to the UK’s National Archives, the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had her hair done as often as 118 times a year!!! Does the “Iron Lady” need all that glamouring-up to protect the Capitalist West from the then “Evil Soviet Empire”?