There is a news item today about the upcoming film called Iron Lady which purposrts to show the life of Baroness Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the UK. According to the article, Meryl Streep is playing the Baroness as a dementia suffering old woman looking back on the past with sadness. Given the enormous success of Thatcher and her policies in the UK, it still does not surprise me that Hollywood would show her as demented and suffering. It fits with the leftist narrative. Hopefully, if the film really shows Thatcher is such light, it will be a major flop.
In any event, the item reminded me of a story that Margaret Thatcher's daughter Carol told when I saw her recently. She was talking about her father Denis and his desire to be off by himself sometimes. He was taking a train to meet his wife in Scotland and was sitting in a compartment by himself when he was joined by a group that was travelling together from a local mental hospital. Shortly thereafter the conductor came through to gather tickets. When he got to Mr. Thatcher, the conductor asked for the ticket and Mr. Thatcher said that it was in his jacket pocket in the overhead rack. Being somewhat suspicious, the conductor asked Mr. Thatcher, "And who are you?" Thatcher replied that he was the husband of the Prime Minister. At that point the conductor smiled knowingly and said that it was not necessary to find the ticket as he already had the tickets for the group.
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