I was saddened by the passing of Lady Thatcher. She was a towering figure and changed the landscape of politics at home and around the world for the better. The Evening Telegraph asked me to write a few words in response to some of the petty comments made by her detractors:
‘Margaret Thatcher and her vision for the country was the reason I joined the Conservative Party as a school boy in in 1979. I was proud to be elected to the former Dundee District Council in a by-election when she was Prime Minister; the last Conservative to be elected in Scotland under her premiership, just a month before she left office in 1990.
I think it is disgusting that some people are rejoicing in her death, especially those who were not even born when she was Prime Minister. It is tasteless and thoroughly inappropriate to behave in this manner. Hopefully all the reflections on her life will let these people see that Britain was in terminal decline in the 1970s and it needed a Prime Minister with the courage and fortitude of Mrs. Thatcher to turn the country around. She spoke for millions of ordinary people which is why she won three elections in a row with sizeable majorities each time.’
