Tories destroy Hampden
December 13, 2009 by David Torrance
Well, not quite, but yet another story to confirm everyone’s worst prejudices about Margaret Thatcher and Scotland – not only did she want to destroy the country, but the wicked woman wanted to bulldoze its national football stadium. Marc Horne of the Sunday Times (Scotland) has obviously been trawling through recently-declassified Scottish Office files at the National Archives and has come across a curious proposition from the former Shadow Scottish Secretary Teddy – now Sir Teddy – Taylor to demolish Hampden after Glasgow District Council withdrew funding for a planned revamp. Cue all the usual predictable nonsense about Thatcher and Scotland: “It says it all for the Tories’ attitude to Scotland that they seriously considering scrapping the national stadium,” says Alex Salmond, “just as they bulldozed jobs and industry during their 18 long years in power.” While Iain Emerson, editor of the Famous Tartan Army Magazine, said “It is well known that Thatcher had little love for Scotland”. Sir Teddy, however, is unrepentant and still thinks it “would have been terribly good to replace Hampden”.
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