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"Thatcher is remembered as the Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others," the former Smiths man said. In a scathing attack the 53-year-old singer said that the Baroness, hated the arts, poor, miners and Irish Freedom Fighters – accusing her of allowing them to die. The singer, who released the song Margaret on the Guillotine, which featured the lyrics "Margaret on the guillotine / Cause people like you / Make me feel so tired / When will you die?" in 1988, said Lady Thatcher "had no wit and no warmth and even her own cabinet booted her out." The singer then went on to criticise Lady Thatcher's role in the British invasion of the Falklands in 1982. "She gave the order to blow up the Belgrano even though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone – and was sailing away from the islands," he said. "When the young Argentinian boys aboard The Belgrano had suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs up sign for the British press. "Iron? No. Barbaric? Yes."

Morrissey said that 'because of Thatcher, there will never again be another woman in power

Morrissey also accused the former prime minister of hindering the progress of women in British politics.



"She hated feminists even though it was largely due to the progression of the women's movement that the British people allowed themselves to accept that a Prime Minister could actually be female," he said.



"But because of Thatcher, there will never again be another woman in power in British politics, and rather than opening that particular door for other women, she closed it."



Morrissey, who has been an outspoken critic of Lady Thatcher for many years, concluded by saying: "Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death.



"As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity," the Smiths frontman said.

Meanwhile left-wing parties celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher broke out last night leaving streets in ruin, windows smashed and police officers injured.

Left-wing groups across the country took part in macabre celebrations of the death of the former British Prime Minister, leaving a path of destruction in their wake.