What Lefties find hard to forgive is the lady's very success: the fact that she rescued a country that they had dishonoured and impoverished; that she inherited a Britain that was sclerotic, indebted and declining and left it proud, wealthy and free; that she never lost an election to them.
Yes, he may have killed the princes in the Tower, but now we should give our last ENGLISH king a decent burial
SIMON HEFFER: Once we know if these bones are in fact Richard III's, we need to decide whether a more dignified resting-place than a council car park is suitable for a man who was the last truly English king.
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