Anti-Thatcher songs sell like hotcakes

Following the death of former British Premier Margaret Thatcher, the song “Ding Dong! The witch is dead” from the movie The Wizard of Oz has leaped to the top of the most popular British songs.
Her death on Monday led to a hail of “Thatcher death parties” on the streets of different cities across Britain including Glasgow, London, Belfast and Manchester.

The protesters also took to the internet to voice their pleasure at the 87-year-old ex-PM’s death, with the word “witch” becoming a rally point for her opponents both on the web and on the streets.

A day after Thatcher’s death, Judy Garland’s song topped download charts of one of the biggest online music stores, Amazon, in Britain while its other version by Ella Fitzgerald topped the charts on another leading online music download website, iTunes UK, in a clear show of how the British public think of the first and only British PM.

“The Witch is Dead” was also scribbled on a banner by protesters in one of the Thatcher death parties held in Brixton, south London.

The records’ success follow a Facebook campaign celebrating the death of the divisive leader with a page named “Is Margaret Thatcher Dead Yet?” receiving nearly 40,000 likes.

This comes as YouGov pollsters claimed Thatcher is the most popular British PM since the Second World War.

YouGov said 28 percent of the British public believe she is the best of the 13 British PMs since 1945 with 48 percent saying she left Britain economically better off.

This is while Thatcher never got more than one third of the votes in the elections that led to her premiership in the 1980’s and she was ousted from leading the Conservative party, hence premiership, in 1990 under public outrage over her hugely controversial economic and taxing policies.