Why Mrs Thatcher wouldn’t vote for these

I WAS intrigued to read Ross Mackinnon’s biography (Newbury Weekly News, April 11).

I too was a fan of Thatcher in her first term of office.

Perhaps Mr Mackinnon was too young at the time to remember what she actually stood for.

So let me remind him.

Then perhaps he’ll understand why I’d be happy to see the next Parliament devoid of every single Tory MP.

Even Thatcher wouldn’t vote Conservative if she were alive today.

1. Sound money. She would be horrified at £1.4tn of debt.

2. The environment. She ‘got’ climate change back in 1990.

Sunak hasn’t got it 34 years later.

The Montreal Protocol. Can you imagine Sunak brokering that?

3. She built bridges with the Soviet Union based on tough mutual respect.

She would never have been taken in by the ‘Friends of Russia’, scam that Cameron was so keen to join.

4. She argued with the EU, but she knew that leaving it would be an act of suicide. She was right.

5. She was totally committed to privatisation, but she would never have allowed the mess that the rail and water industries have got into. She wanted water privatised so that private money could be spent on upgrading the aging infrastructure, not to reward investors in far- off countries.

That’s right Mrs Farris, it’s not a complex financial set-up is it, the shareholders got the money not the infrastructure.

6. Thatcher was from a humble hardworking background, rooting for the small person wanting to better themselves, not someone who had the most privileged education in the UK and who then married a billionaire.

Thatcher would look at today’s Tory Party with its rewards for mates and donors and be lost for words. Mackinnon should be ashamed to mention her name in the same breath as being a Conservative, when standing as the the candidate for Mid Berkshire.

Today’s Tories and Mrs Thatcher have absolutely nothing in common and voters here and in West Berkshire should remember that. ADRIAN FOSTER-FLETCHER Adbury