Former British Prime Minister Baroness (Margaret) Thatcher drew crowds to London’s Trafalgar Square again even after her death. Protesters packed the square and erected a huge effigy of the former PM fashioned from blue material with a sharply pointed face in the style of cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. Her hair is made from Sainsbury’s carrier bags and the whole sculpture eerily lit by a spotlight. The central London square was the scene of demonstrations against her Conservative policies throughout the 1980s, when the poll tax, privatisation of public services,the Falklands War and the miners’ strike divided Britain. ‘Thatcherism’ pitched workers, students and unemployed people against her wealthy backers who got-rich-quick when she sold off national assets to private firms. She famously claimed ‘there is no such thing as society’, and her cult of the individual caused social rifts that never healed.
