A giant tinplate portrait of Baroness Thatcher has divided politicians after it was unveiled at the home of the Welsh assembly in Cardiff.
The work by artist Dylan Hammond will sit alongside one of Labour figure Aneurin Bevan for three months.
Mr Hammond said both politicians had had influence on Welsh life and it was "up to people how they respond".
But one Plaid Cymru assembly member called the Thatcher portrait's location "an insult" to the people of Wales.
I’m not sure what the etiquette is in such cases, but I do wonder if Baroness Thatcher, as a staunch unionist, was actually asked if she wanted such a bizarre portrait hanging up not only in a Welsh Assembly, but also beside Nye Bevin.
I find it hard to believe that she would have said “yes” to such a request.
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Have you seen the sculpture? I'd call it an insult to art before anything else!
Now if anyone tried that in Scotland------. But then the promised sculpture of John Smith still has not been commissioned yet despite it apparently being a priority before Holyrood was built.
Stranger things have happened. In Leinster House hangs two giant portraits near the entrance to the Dail chamber - Michael Collins and Cathal Brugha. Considering Brugha hated Collins with a passion for years-----
Cathal Brugha
Its Charlie Burgess in English. Doesnt quite have the same ring to it does it. (The Snapper anyone ??? Geddit ??)
Anyway. I cant bring myself to find anything I like about Brugha
To the topic at hand though. Surely Baroness thatcher still requires 24 hours security when she visits wales
Why is it that the Welsh and Scots feel they were the only ones betrayed by Thatcher? try coming to industrial heartlands of England and seeing the devastation that woman reaped. Try telling the former steelworkers and coal miners in South Yorkshire, or the Dock Workers of Merseyside, or even the Shipbuilders from the Tyne, how the English were spared the Tory onslaught of the 80s, but that is okay, because according to Scots and Welsh nationalists it was the English who voted her in. Well not in the north they didn't, and Sheffield today has no Conservative councillors, and South Yorkshire has not had a Tory MP since 1983.
Margaret Thatcher was no unionist, shown by the Anglo-Irish agreement done behind Unionist backs in 1985. She was a woman interested in pursuing her own agenda, and she cared not one jot who she trampled over be they English, Scots, Welsh or Ulstermen.
I will drink my night away the day that evil bitch dies.
Paul
I've got very mixed emotions about the woman.
My dad, along with many 1000s others in NI, lost his job directly because of Thatcherism. He's done OK since then; so did she, perversely, do him a favour?
No,if you asked my dad, she most certainly didn't
You mentioned the A/I Agreement- she has since admitted that she was wrong to sign it. She also took the fight, like no other PM before or after, to the provos- remember it was on her call that Sands and Co buggered off to make their excuses to their Maker.
Thatcher laid the goundwork for the IRA surrender in the mid 90s; it's not her fault that her successors decided to provide them with the gloss of an honourable draw.
Also, really... can you imagine Blair or Brown providing the backbone that we needed to sort out our fellow Brits in the Falklands?- Brown bottled out of meeting the Dalai Lamai at No10 in case he upset the Chinese- that tells you all want to know about his moral courage.
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