Thatcher's top five achievements

[Peoplesoft bloke]

For all those who keep posting bring back maggie - what do you rate as her top five?

[sasguru]

1. Destroyed union power (but now the fat cats have carte blanche to do what they like).
2. Liberalised the City (but now the fat cats have carte blanche to do what they like).
3. Allowed people to buy council houses (leading to a shortage and hence a housing boom)
4. Shut down inefficent manufacturing (but now we have no manufacturing)
5. Started the process of making Britain understand that it was not a great power anymore (a process which is continuing slowly).

[DimPrawn]

1. She never voted labour, unlike some of the stupid ***** round here.

[gingerjedi]

Not bankrupting the country? Though some would argue she laid the foundations by exposing UK plc to the mercy of the free market.

She was good at battleships... even when they were out of play.

[DiscoStu]

Provided CyberTory with limitless winking material.

[Cyberman]

The top one has to be being party to keeping the UK out of Labour's failing clutches for almost two decades. Just look at the litany of failure before and ever since that just sadly seems to be never-ending.

The nearest Thatcher ever got to the IMF was MFI.

[PM-Junkie]

1. she upset that pillock scargill
2. she upset that pillock livingstone
3. she upset the french
4. she upset the argies
5. she upset the scots

[Archangel]

1) 1979 beat Labour
2) 1983 beat labour
3) 1987 beat labour
4) 1982 kicked the Argies's arses
5) Opposed the ERM

[Menelaus]

• destruction of Ken Livingstone
• destruction of Arthur Scargill (a world-class ****)
• emphasised home ownership and introduced right-to-buy
• upset the EEC (as was)
• provided model for Ian Richardsons' deliciously Machiavellian character in House of Cards

[EternalOptimist]

She brought glamour and femininity to the top table. and a handbag