#fuck thatcher

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Honestly if we had won the miners strike, UK history would be so different.

#uk politics #uk history #miners strike #class war #fuck thatcher

[enbycrip]

Happy Piss On Thatcher’s Grave Day everyone!

Remember to stay hydrated 😜

#fuck thatcher #fuck neoliberals #fuck the tories #fuck conservatives #thatchers grave IS a gender neutral toilet #including dogs

[mariwatchesmovies]

Blue Jean (2022) dir. Georgia Oakley

#cinema #film #cinematography #screencaps #movies #film stills #georgia oakley #blue jean #rosy mcewen #dexter heads #kerrie hayes #jean/viv #fuck thatcher #section 28 #queer fiilm

[of-monsters-and-werewolves]

Brassed Off! doesn't pull any fucking punches about the immediate effects of the pit closures. It doesn't shy away from the reality of people's lives, whereby the fate of the workers was either death by coal or death by poverty. And yes, people absolutely did kill themselves as a result. It wasn't done out of care for the workers' safety or health; it wasn't done for environmental reasons, they didn't gi a shit.

Cannot emphasise enough that the ramifications are still felt to this day. Of course it has. How could it not? You take towns and villages structured around mining, whose primary income as a region was mining, and expect the North to not be completely fucked when you stop mining, whilst providing the equivalence of pittance as compensation and doing sod all to improve the region afterwards? Fuck off. The influence mining had on large parts of the North can't be understated; even fucking now 30-40 years later. You feel that effect everywhere - everything's built on former mines, there's symbols of it everywhere, stories told by everyone over a certain age. Poor health, poverty, Westminster not gi ing two shits oh that sounds familiar.

If you're not British and you've heard about Thatcher's policies about closing the mines, primarily in the North of England, and want a film that explores it, watch Brassed Off!

If you're British but from a middle class background or live in the South of England or elsewhere where mining was nowhere near as prevalant an industry and you're wondering how the North could possibly still be as fucked as it is, watch Brassed Off!

If you've ever wondered why workers doing a job as dangerous as coal mining were so pissed at the Tories for closing the pits, watch Brassed Off!

#brassed off! #uk politics #brassed off #fuck thatcher #maggie thatcher #margaret thatcher #uk working class #english politics #british politics

[mrbopst]

#Ronald Reagan #margaret thatcher #Fuck Reagan #Fuck Thatcher #Hell

[themagicmusicman]

ayyy got this today because FUCK THATCHER GET YOUR MILK KIDSSSS 🔥🔥🔥🔥

update : this is shit i bought it like 5 hours ago and it curdled but i’m thirst and gotta do it for the memes

#fuck thatcher #HAHA YES ITS A TAG LETS GOOOO #margaret thatcher #fuck the tories #GIVE US OUR MILK!!!! #a lil inside joke for neim :]

[psychuan]

Happy ten years to Thatcher's death! Hope she died slow and painful and scared!

🥳🥳🥳

#uk politics #margaret thatcher #conservative #fuck thatcher #happy easter #this should be a national holiday #honk if thatchers dead #honk

[dabblingreturns]

Not to be a buzzkill, but when I say "I also support women's wrongs" it actually means to two things

It mean I mean that I want everyone to critized real life women like Margaret Thatcher for being a politician with evil policies, but not for being a women in politics.

It means I think that making your female charecters unilaterally good or unilaterally evil is both stupid and boring. Women should be able to do bad stuff for all the reasons mail charecters get too.

Basically woman both fictional and real should be held to the same judgement as thier male counterparts...

#i support womens wrongs #fuck thatcher

[juliaanoia]

I just watched Brassed Off again and uuuaarargh that ending scene, god damn, Peter Postlethwaite is incredible

#brassed off #many tears were shed #ugly crying #fuck the tories #fuck thatcher #also beautiful music and very sad clown #stephen tompkinson is also heartbreaking in this

[puipui-official]

This is my new favorite song

#eat the rich #fuck reagan #fuck thatcher #carsie blanton #Youtube

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

On why the working class hate Thatcher.

#uk politics #uk history #thatcher #fuck thatcher #class war #dennis skinner #fuck the tories

[tuttle-did-it]

Glenda Jackson was a fucking hero and deserves to be remembered. Here she is shredding Thatcherism in Britain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRqdQMlIiYc

#glenda jackson #rest in power #fuck thatcherism #thatcherism destroyed Britain and we are still suffering because of it #fuck every man screaming at her as she gives her speech #fuck thatcher #uk politics

[mariwatchesmovies]

Blue Jean (2022) dir. Georgia Oakley

#cinema #film #cinematography #screencaps #movies #film stills #georgia oakley #blue jean #rosy mcewen #dexter heads #kerrie hayes #jean/viv #fuck thatcher #section 28 #queer fiilm

[unspecifiedliquid]

LIZZIE IN A BOX

why are all these monarchists shocked lizzie was the longest reigning monarch, like we aren’t living in the most medically advanced generation....Anyways do you think she’ll say hi to thatcher in hell for me 

#lizzies in a box #royal family #fuck charles #long live dianna #charles has big ears #down with the king #fuck thatcher

[jaffacakerebellion]

Hey it's Eggy Anon calling and may I just start by thanking you for the nickname, love it! I think you might indeed be on your way to becoming the tumblr egg guy but I'd consider it an honour! :D 

 

I really enjoyed your reply and that egg custard tart you described sounds amazing and it's definitely my mission now to try one! All those dishes you mentioned got me wondering if eggs have a significant role in British food culture? I never thought about it even though I lived there for a few years and also became a little obsessed with eggs. I would eat a bunch of them daily and my egg cooking game improved massively. And when it comes to british food in general, I really enjoyed every british dish I tried despite its bland reputation (deep fried mars bar was pushing it a little ngl). Though I did eat the vegetarian versions of most dishes so I probably didn't get the most authentic experience.

Eggy Anon my beloved! <3

I think eggs are quite important in British cuisine because basically they've been quite an accessible staple in Britain for hundreds of years. If you think about the geography of the UK, in terms of food, the only protein you can really get are meat from livestock, dairy products (which are also quite fatty and therefore good for keeping you going), fish and eggs. Eggs are way easier to get your hands on than fish (which you fish for), meat (which you have to butcher and cook/ preserve/ prepare), and dairy products (require milking and then preparation- cheese can take years).

A lot of British food is meat, potatoes and other veg because that's what we're able to get, basically. But the different parts of the country and the class structure have meant that people have adapted their diets differently.

For example, in largely-dispersed farming communities in the UK, up until less than 50 years ago it was regular for households to make 'pottage' for the winter, which is basically where you place a pot on top of a fire/stove which never goes out for the whole winter, and you just throw in any food you can get your hands on. Grains, vegetables, any meat you can catch, beans. This would just cook continually to avoid mould or germs or whatever, which would eat up fuel but that would just keep the house warm, too. It would be a good idea for the communities to keep chickens around this time to keep a continual supply of eggs or meat if they needed it. I think it was an idea brought over by the anglo-saxons, if I'm not mistaken.

Back in the middle ages, it was very hard for people to get protein and the average person would eat 2-3lbs of rough wheat & rye bread per day (as in, the bread would contain both wheat and rye). If you kept chickens during this time, you'd be way better off I imagine, although this is just my personal speculation.

Britain has many wonderful herbs which can create interesting flavours, although they're not really used much anymore. I mean, dandelion and burdock and wild garlic aren't as valuable as they were because Britain starting colonising other places and straight up thieving some wonderful herbs and spices from places like India and the West Indies, and creating plantations for the things they liked and wanted more of. Once we realised that we could totally fuck the rest of the world over and take whatever the fuck we want then we got things like ginger and tamarind and cumin, and drinks like tea and coffee, and damn the consequences. This is very much reflected in British cuisine.

I've been meaning to read 'The Medieval Cookbook' by Maggie Black, it's got lots of wonderful recipes inside which really contextualise a slice of culinary history and help us open up that slice of history because of the things we know people had access to, due to those recipes left behind. Really, textiles and food and other things found in the home, once looked at closely, can tell you more about history than documents and treaties and speeches. An Aran Isle sweater or a Welsh Love Spoon can tell you more about the geography, culture and history of Aran or Wales than a historian could put into words, honestly.

So yeah, a place is just made up of the things it's got and the people there.

Anyway, here's one of Maggie's recipes which she's put on the internet which I'd totally try:

Rose pudding:

Ingredients

Petals of one white rose

4 level tbsp rice flour or cornflour

275ml milk

50g caster sugar

3/4 tsp ground cinnamon

3/4 tsp ground ginger

575ml single cream

Pinch of salt

10 dessert dates, stoned and finely chopped

1 tbsp chopped pine nut kernels

Method

Take the petals off the rose one by one. Blanch the petals in boiling water for 2 minutes, then press them between several sheets of soft kitchen paper and put a heavy flat weight on top to squeeze them dry. (They may look depressingly greyish but blending will improve the dish’s colour.) Put the rice flour or cornflour in a saucepan, and blend into it enough of the milk to make a smooth cream. Stir in the remaining milk. Place the pan over low heat and stir until the mixture starts to thicken. Put in a (non-medieval!) electric blender, and add the sugar, spices and rose petals. Process until fully blended, then add and blend in the cream and salt. Turn the mixture into a heavy saucepan, and stir over very low heat, below the boil, until it is the consistency of softly whipped cream. Stir in most of the chopped dates and pine nut kernels and stir for 2 more minutes. Turn into a glass or decorative bowl and cool. Stir occasionally while cooling to prevent a skin forming. Chill. Just before serving decorate with the remaining dates and nuts.

#cooking #food #baking #medieval #history #british history #british food #textiles #fuck thatcher #thanks for the ask :) #eggy anon <3

[tiger-moran]

A statue of Margaret Thatcher has been egged within two hours of it being erected in her home town of Grantham.

GOOD

#2 hours? what took you so long #let's hope the one that hit it was nice and rotten #LMAO #fuck thatcher