On the occasion of Meryl Streep’s Oscar winning performance of the Iron Lady I would like to say that my opinion of the original was never high. Sort of ‘Maggie Maggie the milk snatcher’ level perhaps. From snatches on TV it appears that Ms Streep’s performance was indeed excellent. Even getting down to the Lady’s own fundamental fakeness in her accent.
Now as to whether it was a good film I have no idea. I shall not be going to see it, not only because of long standing allergies to the old lady but because nearly all reviews agree that the actual script it terrible. But in the context of this blog there is one thing I do feel constrained to admit in her favour after all.
That is that although I felt Thatcher was quite wrong over most things, like the Falklands War, the Miners’ Strike and perhaps above all her shrill contentions that ‘There is no such thing as society’ and worse of all that ‘There is no alternative!’ (All pronounced with glass shattering shrillness), she was right about one thing.
She was adamant the Germany should not be reunited. It is a shame that although she is still alive, she is not in a position to realise that in that, at least, she has been vindicated.