[The widespread belief amongst workers that the Tory…]
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The widespread belief amongst workers that the Tory leaders are rats was challenged last week by the British army.
The Queens Own Highlanders, currently stationed at Crosmaglen in South Armagh, awarded Margaret Thatcher the "Order of the Lemming", for her devil-may-care visit to Crosmaglen in a heavily armed army helicopter in the wake of the IRA's successful Warrenpoint ambush.
Lemmings are, like rats, small, unpleasant rodents. But they have one relieving quality; in a periodic fit of frenzy, they commit mass suicide by rushing La cliff into the sea.
The Lemming Club is open to those reactionary VIPs who boost army morale, visiting the British occupying army beleagured in the "bandit" country of South Armagh.
But Thatcher has not made any effort to boast of her award -which was not announced to the journalists who covered her visit.
Perhaps she is reluctant to boost the hopes of working class men, women and children that, at some not-too-distant point of time, she will lead the rest of the Tory Party and the parasitic employers they represent in a mass suicide that would be universally applauded.