How do you view the late Margaret Thatcher?

[proggy]

She would relish running hell , she wouldn't have to communicate with all the lilly livered self righteous lefty hypocrites in heaven

Just a joke I saw on twitter, not my opinion, I don't believe in Hell.

[Mich the Tester]

I like this bit in the Economist;

Her struggles had a theme: the right of individuals to run their own lives, as free as possible from the micromanagement of the state.

And I agree. We need more of that mentality in Europe right now.

Margaret Thatcher: The lady who changed the world | The Economist

But yes, given hindsight she might have been a bit less eager to give such freedom to huge financial corporations, which can actually damage individual liberty at times.

But as I have said before, she had to do the job without the benefit of hindsight.

[MrMark]

WHS.

Her record is mixed, and she did more outside Britain than within (most importantly with Reagan to bring down the Soviet Union). But her silly belief that the financial and services industry could replace manufacturing was misplaced and her liberalisation of the financial markets in 1986 was a direct precursor to what has happened in the last 5 years.

I thought she got too many issues wrong (eg the Poll tax, crushing manufacturing and promoting services, even the sale of council houses) to deserve the adulation many give her.
But (and there's always a but) she understood the issues of her time, and knew what were the enemies to slay. None of today's politicians seem to have half a clue.

[sasguru]

But (and there's always a but) she understood the issues of her time, and knew what were the enemies to slay. None of today's politicians seem to have half a clue.

That's true too. People appreciate clarity and single mindedness in a politician.

[MyUserName]

Where is the "through a sniper scope" option in the poll?

[Doggy Styles]

That's true too. People appreciate clarity and single mindedness in a politician.

Indeed. I can't remember too many before or since, and certainly no Lib/Lab/Con party leaders.

[proggy]

That's true too. People appreciate clarity and single mindedness in a politician.

:nazi:

[DodgyAgent]

I thought she got too many issues wrong (eg the Poll tax, crushing manufacturing and promoting services, even the sale of council houses) to deserve the adulation many give her.
But (and there's always a but) she understood the issues of her time, and knew what were the enemies to slay. None of today's politicians seem to have half a clue.

whilst I agree on the poll tax I do not agree with you on the sale of council houses (how dare the working class become property owners) and as far as manufacturing was concerned more damage was done to this by previous labour and conservative governments than anything Thatcher did. All she did was to weed out the inefficiency and there was no money left for investment because she was being an utter wet and paying out vast sums in welfare benefits.

[Mich the Tester]

whilst I agree on the poll tax I do not agree with you on the sale of council houses (how dare the working class become property owners) and as far as manufacturing was concerned more damage was done to this by previous labour and conservative governments than anything Thatcher did. All she did was to weed out the inefficiency and there was no money left for investment because she was being an utter wet and paying out vast sums in welfare benefits.

Indeed, and at least Mrs Thatcher sold council houses to the people who lived in them. Here in NL the clueless feckwhits who populate our many, luxurious government offices, set up private housing corporations and then gifted them the council houses, which means we now have people paying too much rent to local privatised monopolies that go bust playing around with derivatives and then have to be rescued by the state.

[MarillionFan]

Saint Thatcher was a hero to middle classes.

John Lennon wrote a song about her.