Frank Turner - Thatcher Fucked The Kids Lyrics






Whatever happened to childhood?
We're all scared of the kids in our neighborhood;
They're not small, charming and harmless,
They're a violent bunch of bastard little shits.
And anyone who looks younger than me
Makes me check for my wallet, my phone and my keys,
And I'm tired of being tired out
Always being on the lookout for thieving gits.

We're all wondering how we ended up so scared;
We spent ten long years teaching our kids not to care
And that "there's no such thing as society" anyway,
And all the rich folks act surprised
When all sense of community dies,
But you just closed your eyes to the other side
Of all the things that she did.
Thatcher fucked the kids.

And it seems a little bit rich to me,
The way the rich only ever talk of charity
In times like the seventies, the broken down economy
Meant even the upper tier was needing some help.
But as soon as things look brighter,
Yeah the grin gets wider and the grip gets tighter,
And for every teenage tracksuit mugger
There's a guy in a suit who wouldn't lift a finger for anybody else.

You've got a generation raised on the welfare state,
Enjoyed all its benefits and did just great,
But as soon as they were settled as the richest of the rich,
They kicked away the ladder, told the rest of us that life's a bitch.
And it's no surprise that all the fuck-ups
Didn't show up until the kids had grown up.
But when no one ever smiles or ever helps a stranger,
Is it any fucking wonder our society's in danger of collapse?

So all the kids are bastards,
But don't blame them, yeah, they learn by example.
Blame the folks who sold the future for the highest bid:
That's right, Thatcher fucked the kids.





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  1. G.... M....

    2019 - Boris fucked this kids.

  2. M.... ....

    Who's listening to this 13/12/2019 thinking: Frank Turner warned us.

    M.... ....

    I also felt inclined to revisit this track today and play it loudly 🙃

  3. C.... L....

    Never ever trust a Tory!

  4. N.... E....

    Thatcher showed us what greed is she fucked us which lead to anger which affected our kids that lead to violence and greed, just one nasty fucking circle of hate.
    That's what they wanted, divide and conquer we used to fight together against them now we just fight each other.
    Top song thanks for sharing mate.

  5. S.... J....

    YouTube algorithms caused this song to disappear for a while, even if searched by name perfectly. Glad that shit cleared up.

  6. L.... M....

    Reminds me of the first episode of peep show

  7. J.... C....

    tbh while thatcher did play a part one of the reason kids are such pricks these days is coppers/parents cant give them a clout round the ear when they deserve it anymore

  8. I.... M....

    She fucked us all bitch this should have been number one when cuntty bollocks died

  9. a.... ....

    No wonder she got on so well with Savile. She obviously saw a kindred spirit.
    "And if anyone asks, we did it for their own good."

  10. B.... ....

    Said the cunt who went to Eaton. You guys will believe anything.

  11. j.... l....

    bitch stole the milk

  12. H.... ....

    Science, commercialism, godlessness, liberalism, lazy parenting, greed, a London-centric service-based economy, terrible education geared towards attaining 'targets', US trash telly, Eastenders and the normalisation of dysfunction and aggression, hip-hop, popular culture, video games, and the Internet have contributed to fucking the kids for the last 40 years.

  13. b.... ....

    not as much as Ted Heath.......

  14. A.... S....

    POLITICIANS FUCKED KIDS

  15. K.... G....

    Give it 20 years:
    Frank Turner - Theresa Fucked the Kids

    K.... G....

    you could be right

    K.... G....

    or you could be wrong.

    K.... G....

    You could be neither

    K.... G....

    Not Theresa. Cameron. That indecisive bastard got us into this mess. Worst Prime Minister ever. Even worse than Thatcher.

    K.... G....

    Turned out it was Prince Andrew

  16. R.... D....

    I feel this is well applied to our parent's generation, the Leave voters. Had a great time, fucked it off when it came to our turn

  17. A.... S....

    spot on, i am so glad thatcher is dead, just wish it had been sooner and more painful

  18. L.... E....

    school fucked the kids...

  19. L.... O....

    Well I'm not British and I don't know a whole lot about the politics, but it would appear that the general consensus of Thatcher is not a positive one.

    L.... O....

    Think of her as the Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush of the UK. Not only did she fuck up Britain's youth and working class, but also the entire Irish population of the UK in Northern Ireland, and in all her years as PM she applied some pretty fucked up policies, and was responsible for the massive influx of heroin to the British Isles. She, Reagan, and both Bush presidents, as well as Thatcher's successors, have taught me to never trust a conservative politician, be they British or American.

    L.... O....

    She's seen of a positive because she fixed our countries financial problems and improved the lives of the middle class. This was at the expense of the youth and the poor. So she's liked by the majority but despised by the rest. I'm one of the only members of my family that doesn't hate her because I have only seen how successful Britain was under her financially speaking, whereas they saw their livelihoods ruined for money. So it's a touchy subject here in the UK to say the least xD

    L.... O....

    She fixed the reckless spending by the labour party before her, she had to take drastic measures to fix the economy, the burden of course hit the poor as it does in any country, Economic growth occurred during her time and i consider her a great politician

    L.... O....

    "IT", was a Greedy Selfish Heartless Bastard. My Mother being Human and born of Heaven takes vitamins to kickstart the day, unlike the Monster Thatcher the Snatcher, who took injections of Arsenic and Cyanide to pave it's way on the road to HELL :-(

    L.... O....

    Basically, you hate her if you're poor and you love her if you're well off.

  20. S.... N....

    Ha ha love this!

  21. d.... ....

    Well said (and sung).

  22. J.... J....

    this is so cheesy and cliched and clunky it's making me cringe

    J.... J....

    @Johnny Jungle i've never tried chiken with cheese, sounds fucking aweful tho.

    J.... J....

    no, when she comes to see me for her weekly shitting in her mouth sessions (my poo her face), she tells me it's delicious apparently

    J.... J....

    @Johnny Jungle jesus, so your mom doesn't want to live with you but preffers your shit, that gives being a shitty person a whole different meaning, or perhaps you shit cheese?

    J.... J....

    I'm talkin bout yo momma. I shit nachos

    J.... J....

    @Johnny Jungle i don't know who that is, but i think he just wants you because your nacho shit so you better let him go for your own safety, as your mom im worried

  23. T.... ....

    He's right though.
    Thatcher did fuck the kids.

    T.... ....

    +TheYopogo Nah she just let her entire cabinet do it and kept her mouth shut about it

    T.... ....

    +TheYopogo The fuck she did. You been living under a rock these past 20 yrs??!?

    T.... ....

    +MrAllthatnmore I, personally, was living on another continent, so I have an excuse.

    Also, not stopping people from fucking something up when you can stop them counts as fucking it up yourself.

    T.... ....

    Rik, the People's Poet, told us so

  24. j.... ....

    Metaphorically. Edward Heath literally.

    j.... ....

    @jimwantsaliens Thatcher, like a true conservative, outsourced her kid fucking to Savile.

  25. F.... B....

    I love you

  26. A.... M....

    When I read the title I immediately thought of that picture of Maggie Thatcher shaking hands with Jimmy Saville!!!!!!

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/28/article-2253929-16AA26BE000005DC-376_634x468.jpg

  27. D.... ....

    Turner describes himself as a "classical liberal" in the original sense of the word and his views align with many modern libertarians. He has a tattoo of ama-gi, Sumerian cuneiform for "freedom", on his left forearm. Turner has experienceddeath threats following an erroneous news article from the Guardian newspaper that stated he was right wing in his political views.[41]
    In 2013, Turner became a Patron of the assisted dying campaign group Dignity in Dying.[42]
    Turner is formerly straight edge, having been vegetarian for eleven years and teetotal for five.

    D.... ....

    +TheYopogo Thomas Jefferson wasn't for social welfare he was for complete independence from a federal government and for the power to be left to the smaller state government where people can vote on the laws and taxes that they must abide by (A true republic) also for simplicity in law he often said laws should be written so common men could read them (unlike 99%of American law and tax codes) , and for individual liberty, but I'll give you Thomas Paine.

    D.... ....

    @Nathan T I just quoted from wiki dude, don't take me to court over it. Sheesh.

    D.... ....

    @Doodlebugdude
    *sigh*

    Quoting from wiki doesn't exempt you from being criticized. If you say something from Wikipedia, you at least give the appearance that you believe it, and thus people are going to argue. This is how the internet works.

    D.... ....

    @Nathan T I just quoted from wiki dude, don't take me to court over it. Sheesh.

    D.... ....

    @Doodlebugdude
    My point is valid too- even if you just copied from wikipedia, you still made a point and other people are allowed to criticize this point.

  28. S.... G....

    The song that not only got me into frank turner but also folk punk itself.

  29. P.... ....

    Didn't this cunt and his whole family benefit from Thatcherite policies? Man was definitely getting daddy handouts whilst sleeping on couches mustering up some sense of self administered PUNK ROCK creed to sell to his future vanity causes. In fact isn't his whole fan-base the white middle class?

    'His father, Roger Turner, is the son of Sir Mark Turner, formerly chairman of high street retailer BHS, and had himself also attended Eton before becoming a City investment banker, while his mother, Jane, the daughter of a bishop, is a primary school head teacher.' They definitely voted Thatcher hahahhaha idiots.

    Ohya, this song fucking sucks too! What is it? Sounds like some Jack Johnson shit.

    The smug cursing is truly funny. 

    P.... ....

    @kingrudiger So you agree with me?

    P.... ....

    @kingrudiger Hey, why did you delete your first message? Silly billy. Bye, love ya xxx

    P.... ....

    @Peaceonearth Edited, not deleted. I hope you're pleased as punch at your pitiful parting shot.You should be proud, you're clearly a winner.

  30. M.... N....

    Excellent song." There's no such thing as society"
     - ignorant,vicious bitch,

  31. T.... B....

    since she knew about and ignored the child murdering pedophiles in her cabinet, like Loan Britton, she did indeed literally fuck the kids.

    T.... B....

    +Teddy Bear By proxy

  32. j.... b....

    Thanks for posting this. Great song.

  33. I.... d....

    Context is always important, so for anyone who hasn't read the quote in context:

    Margaret Thatcher - "I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!” or “I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the Government must house me!” and so they are casting their problems on society and *who is society? There is no such thing!* There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation and it is, I think, one of the tragedies in which many of the benefits we give, which were meant to reassure people that if they were sick or ill there was a safety net and there was help, that many of the benefits which were meant to help people who were unfortunate—“It is all right. We joined together and we have these insurance schemes to look after it”. That was the objective, but somehow there are some people who have been manipulating the system and so some of those help and benefits that were meant to say to people: “All right, if you cannot get a job, you shall have a basic standard of living!” but when people come and say: “But what is the point of working? I can get as much on the dole!” You say: “Look” It is not from the dole. It is your neighbour who is supplying it and if you can earn your own living then really you have a duty to do it and you will feel very much better!”
    There is also something else I should say to them: “If that does not give you a basic standard, you know, there are ways in which we top up the standard. You can get your housing benefit.”
    But it went too far. If children have a problem, it is society that is at fault. *There is no such thing as society.* There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate. 

    Taken from the Margaret Thatcher Foundation website.

  34. E.... B....

    I fucking love this song ^^

  35. r.... ....

    how is this punk rock? It's not even a campfire

    r.... ....

    +rossabroad Punk Rock isn't a style, it's an approach.

  36. C.... L....

    Me thinks we had this discussion in person Soph..... imagine id find you're repartee on youtube as well...

  37. w.... ....

    Strange how these idiots try to blame Thatcher for things she had nothing to do with.

    w.... ....

    ok i understanf i massively oversimplified marxism and have not talked about a lot of its points

    w.... ....

    @warriorprince101010 Um... Are we talking about the same Denmark? You know, the Denmark with 50% income tax? Where the state pays students to go to school once they're over 18? Where we have socialised healthcare? Where private education is a relatively new concept? Where just about all aspects of culture are subsidised by the state? Where the largest TV- and radio station is state-owned? Where the railways are state-owned? Where the country's largest bridge was financed by the state, just like most of our infrastructure? Where we have progressive taxation, meaning higher taxes for the rich than for the poor? 

    w.... ....

    @AndroZeus Yeah, that's the one he's on about :P

    w.... ....

    @TheSeedaripper1973 The mining communities were destroyed by Wilson, you liar.

    w.... ....

    @warriorprince101010 what the hell are you talking about?

  38. P.... J....

    You were right Thatcher, there's no such thing as society. Except you said it 3 decades too early and you destroyed society. Talk about making sure you're always right.

  39. J.... Z....

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-personally-covered-up-3848836

  40. S.... R....

    Genius songwriter!

  41. s.... ....

    So true

  42. S.... H....

    so funny how he wrote this song and then claims to be right wing... http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2012/sep/04/frank-turner-right-wing
    great artist though, always incredible live, but still puts a little downer on it

    S.... H....

    @AndroZeus although i do suppose it depends what you use as the scale. if socialism is left and liberalism is right, then conservatism is hard to place

    S.... H....

    Well its all just lexical garbage designed to divorce us of our true principles

    S.... H....

    @Christopher Loh We should honestly drop "left" and "right" because there are at least three main ideologies so it doesn't work on a linear scale anyway

    S.... H....

    @AndroZeus 3 ideologies invented ~100 years ago, time for a change perhaps?

    S.... H....

    @John Stark Well, socialism is 150 years old, conservatism around 250, and liberalism over 300 years old. Of course, we're getting new ideologies all the time, and some of them will probably take the places as "main" ideologies from the current "big three". I mean, we also have anarchism, libertarianism, nihilism, all on the rise.

  43. J.... M....

    "If we dont want our young people to tear apart our communities then dont let people in power tear apart the values that hold our communities together"

    Russel Brand.

  44. C.... D....

    Great to listen to after dealing with the daily arrogant hypocrite muthafuckas

  45. w.... w....

    true song love it

  46. A.... T....

    SO true , the bitch nicked my milk!

  47. S.... S....

    As the Thatcher's daughter and the one who cured his inability to see: understand that you and me are friends but I AM SHERYL ANN. It is my land. I am in isolation cuz my Daddy's fucked me 1st! and no one wants to see that side of it, Frank Turner! So don't fuxk with ME cuz I am Peace! you see ? But I will go to WAR if I damn well want to. Cuz everything those Daddy's got came from me! LOVE, THE LAND! I ask him to talk to me but he just steady trying to make you understand that I AM STILL HERE! IT's my Heaven and I aint dead to it! Straight Up! 

    S.... S....

    i am very confused

  48. M.... H....

    It's amazing when the kids grow up they see Thatcher Fucked up the kids !!!

  49. D.... D....

    Thatcher was a cunt who ruined my country, my people and sent my eldest to the Falklands. I grew up on the breadline thanks to her

  50. M.... ....

    Ok, enough of that silly revisionist nonsense.

    Firstly, you can't just reduce the whole DDR from 1949 to 1989 down to "stasi gestapo oppression"...

    Secondly, The proletariat had nothing to do with the fall of the USSR or any other eastern bloc country. They were brought down by the traitorous scum that turned those countries away from Socialism in the first place. The best example is that criminal Gorbachev, may he rot.

  51. Q.... ....

    You know, Communists would get a lot farther if they stopped using the symbolism of absurdly oppressive regimes. The GDR was a brutally repressive regime. The tales of the Stasi weren't propaganda.

    Churchill lied about socialists when he said that their vision would require some kind of Gestapo. And yet, here you are, using a GDR symbol.

    We need a clean break with the totalitarian state capitalist regimes that were brought down by their own proletariat.

  52. M.... ....

    The whole rotten bloody gang of them...

  53. s.... ....

    He doesn't give a shit about the poor. He's on record as supporting laissez-faire capitalism: that's a system where the rich get rich and the poor are left to starve to death.

  54. s.... ....

    I hate him because he's posh AND supports free-market capitalism where the rich exploit the poor and the poor can go whistle.

  55. s.... ....

    Yeah, but Frank Turner agrees with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

  56. E.... s....

    *cameron fucked the kids.

  57. L.... D....

    Too fucking right. Thatcher, Blair, Cameron. All of them fucked most of us & continue to do so. The rich poor divide has not been so great for decades & its getting bigger. Take the post office. Another utility we own, being sold off to make money for the rich to get richer. The rich can afford to buy the shares to invest & make more money to be richer. The rest of us can fuck right off.

  58. M.... ....

    This song would apply to Cameron as much as it does to Thatcher..

  59. f.... ....

    Oh please, how many complaints from guardian articles have I read about the disproportionate amounts of upper class private school folks breaking into the charts.. e.g mumford and sons etc etc Take a step into reality... the left cares about background

  60. K.... M....

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the richest people in the US, but he created the American welfare state. People who grow up wealthy and go to good schools side with the left because they want everyone to have the same opportunities they did. I don't think you're going to find any lefties who care where Turner came from, at all. What matters is what he thinks, and what he believes.

  61. J.... F....

    @AllBallie You do know his Granddad founded British Home Stores, right? The guy's got a decent chunk of change.

  62. j.... r....

    Iv got a new favourite song :)

  63. f.... ....

    Frank Turner lower middle class AHAHA you're having a laugh mate. His grandad founded BHS please do some research. Also he was born in Bahrain... rich as fuck parents. you're a troll

  64. J.... D....

    Saville*

  65. e.... ....

    Don't be a wanker. And if you really think he's so left wing and that I'm such a "leftie" just because I enjoy his music, go and listen to something like Love Ire & Song (probably my favourite of his) to realise just what he thinks of the left wing. In any event, to re-iterate what I've been saying over and over again, just because you don't like someone's politics is no reason to try and discredit their musical abilities.

  66. f.... ....

    " I'm starting to repeat myself now so you can expect this to be my last response:" typical cop out

  67. f.... ....

    yea but you should just know that he isn't the sacred robin hood hero you think he is. He's a raging capitalist now, listen to his song "sons of liberty" .. you should already know it if you're a true fan of his

  68. e.... ....

    What on earth are you blathering on about? I'm starting to repeat myself now so you can expect this to be my last response: wealth and personality are two totally unrelated things. Plenty of people from the lower/lower-middle class are dicks, and plenty of people from the upper/upper-middle class are cool, and vice versa. What he says is the important thing. If a rich right-wing person is making stupid comments (COUGH TEBBIT COUGH) then of course he's going to get called out on it...

  69. f.... ....

    all you lefties love up an upper class person who points out inequality and dont criticize his wealth... but when its a rich right wing guy you always point blame at him for being wealthy and "out of touch" hypocrits

  70. e.... ....

    What you said is true, but what's also true is that he didn't NEED the money to go to Eton. He did get a scholarship actually. Regardless, as you rightly point out, where he went to school is irrelevant because it seems he's turned out alright regardless.

  71. e.... ....

    Doesn't change the fact that he went to Eton on a scholarship (as a result of his brains, not financial brawn) and doesn't invalidate anything he's said about the rich. Just proves that there are some in the "upper/middle classes" who recognise inequality when they see it and want to change it. What's wrong with that?

  72. f.... ....

    his grandad owned BHS mate... just... stop.

  73. e.... ....

    Well he was educated at Eton ON A SCHOLARSHIP. He went there on the merit of his intelligence, not his parents' money. Beside, not everyone who goes to Eton is necessarily a dick. It just seems like most of them have turned out to be. Thatcher didn't go to Eton and she..well... see above.

  74. H.... B....

    With her recent death, I came back to this song knowing there would be arguments.

    YouTube, you didn't disappoint!

  75. f.... ....

    What I've learnt: The left doesnt care if an artist is filthy rich and upper class if he sings against right wing ideologues. HOWEVER... if he's upper middle class and speaks in favour of right wing policies... his rich background is at fault. Dont you guys all hate how cameron etc was a member of the bullingdon club. Bloody hypocrits

  76. f.... ....

    Wow... so he gets negged for telling it how it is. His grandfather was the CEO of BHS maybe you should do your research?

  77. A.... O....

    I struggled with that when i first found out, but why should you dislike someone just because of their social class. Doesn't that make you as bad as Thatcher. The point is, Franks music is good, nuff said.

  78. S.... P....

    but you didn't

  79. O.... ....

    AHA FOR YOU SEE I AM THE PUPPETMASTER

  80. J.... ....

    I don't know why what social class you belong to should define what you believe in?

  81. I.... T....

    It is true, he said it before in a recent interview. Do your research

  82. F.... A....

    pretty sure that isnt true, his dad was a banker, and his grandfather was the CEO of BHS, i dont think there was a shortage of money, though i dont understand why where he went to school matters

  83. f.... ....

    didn't ask for your address mate... more like the actual home county you're on about. Bloody hell...

  84. f.... ....

    where do you live if you don't mind me asking, there are of course some chavy places in the south but for the most part its affluent as hell.

  85. f.... ....

    I thoroughly enjoyed trolling you folks

  86. f.... ....

    FUCK YOU

  87. C.... W....

    Fuck Thatcherism

  88. f.... ....

    you're wrong on everything. Check literacy rates north v south, exactly. Check wealth north v south etc Why dispute facts i fail to udnerstand

  89. E.... M....

    Appeal to logic? Okay. How about there is zero truth in saying people from the south east are any more educated than people in any other part of the UK? How about, whilst there may be a higher concentration of millionaires in the Home Counties, there are still many wealthy people in other areas? Or finally, that education does not go hand in hand with money anyway. There's some logic for your ill-advised arguments.

  90. E.... M....

    Well don't make a point that you have less than sufficient evidence with which to back up

  91. f.... ....

    you're appealing to emotion "How can you even say that" boohoo. Appeal to logic instead

  92. r.... ....

    Thatcher fucked also the poor of the UK: Intergenerational_mobility_graph-1.jpg
    This graph means: if you were born poor in the UK, you'll stay poor.

  93. E.... M....

    It's not a fact. There are rich people across the country and poor people are not usually dumb - how the fuck can you even say that? You are a disgrace to society and should keep your senseless comments off the internet.

  94. E.... M....

    I have many counter arguments - my point was I have too many to bother with as Frank has made the counter arguments himself countless times.

  95. E.... M....

    Scottish, but you're almost right. I do hate Thactcher, but for numerous and valid reasons.

  96. E.... M....

    "with Prince William" - although he never had any interaction with him and no, he did not become an investment banker, he merely went to the London School of Economics to train as one but knew it wasn't what he wanted to do (again on a scholarship)

  97. E.... M....

    I know that - but on a scholaship you ignoramus. He has talked about how he did not fit and would never describe himself as an "Etonian"

  98. t.... ....

    Really? You are that blatantly ignorant? Thatcher ruined many lives (what politician hasn't?) but she fixed many too, and helped many. To this day my father states how he loved Thatchers rule, and this is a man who DESPISES government, yet he has a large amount of respect for Thatcher. Didn't agree with everything she did (who does with any politician?).

    Stop thinking of yourself and wa wa wa I need help, and grow a fucking back bone and sort it out yourself.