Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.
The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.
As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.
There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.
One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.
Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.
When I was a boy during Thatcher, you watched elections and wept in disbelief as the whole country turned blue, Scotland turned red, and we still got the Tories.
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