Murray wrote the following for his BBC Radio 6 slot but the powers that beeb chose to spike it:
Maggie: Obit poem. Murray Lachlan Young 12/04/013
Farewell to you Maggie Oh Maggie farewell
Some eulogise you, some give you hell
Repeating the phrases that caused notoriety
Stating there is no such thing as society
Friend to the bank, brutally frank
Reagan’s big pal, rode in a tank
You mobilized classes with social volte-faces
You mangled the unions, kicked euro arses
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie!
You parleyed with Pinochet, gifted the satirist.
Nelson Mandela, you branded a terrorist
Flogged council houses, sold the utilities
Founded new Labour in all probability
One usually lost if one stood up and fought yer
You hammered your colleagues like lambs to the slaughter
Stated the falklands were ‘ours’ in totality
Turned the big bang to a fiscal reality
Littered the city with monstrous earning
The lady you stated was never for turning
Your standing its seems in the final prognosis
Reviled and admired in similar doses
Some will remember the chill in your air
Some will remember your teeth and your hair
But most that you gave and you asked for no quarter
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie
Over and out
But not bad for a greengrocers daughter
