![]() ![]() She also ensured the survival of Great Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons program. Outside of economics, Margaret Thatcher had caused a major war against Argentina in the Falkland Islands in what suspiciously looked like an effort to get re-elected. ![]() It punished the poor, and set hundreds of thousands out of work. The economics of Thatcherism had set England against itself. Your critic, to be glib, remembers that the 1980s were mostly fun, setting aside AIDS, the Cold War, and the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.īut the young Mr Moore was beside himself with fury. Re-reading the collected work, and writing this note is a cause for mixed nostalgia, because the text is so firmly set in the 1980s. Writer Alan Moore, as demonstrated in his forward to the story, was very much motivated by his reaction to the right wing politics and adjunct economic policies of the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. ![]() It is set in a fictional England, where a far right government with the party name Norsefire have slowly eliminated ethnic minorities, homosexuals, and leftists from their communities and established a police state. Ostensibly, V for Vendetta is a science fiction story. ![]() I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.” “Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. Warrior Comics : DC Comics/Vertigo Comics, 1988-9 ![]()
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