The sad thing

[vetran]

The really sad thing is

People are happy to attack a sick old lady who was forced out of office 22 years ago.

She presided over an extremely difficult time and the vast majority of professional commentators consider she did a pretty good job of it.
Even Livingstone managed to be nice about her.

Her famous critics are people like Scargill, Abbot & Glenda Jackson, Morrisey, Bono, Kinnock and Drama teachers people nearly every CUK poster would consider a bit loopy.

Yet we can't celebrate her undoubted achievements (e.g. first Female PM, part of the end of the cold war) and her age. You need to compare her to a notorious war criminal.

She was great, she may not have been nice.

[ZARDOZ]

People are happy to attack a sick old lady who was forced out of office 22 years ago.

I think she would have found it quite disrespectful to be described like that.

[darmstadt]

Yet we can't celebrate her undoubted achievements (e.g. first Female PM, part of the end of the cold war) and her age. You need to compare her to a notorious war criminal.

First UK female prime minister:

- Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916-2000). She was the prime minister of Sri Lanka three times: from 21 July 1960 to 27 March 1965, from 29 May 1970 to 23 July 1977 and from 14 November 1994 to 10 August 2000.
- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984). She was the prime minister of India twice, from 19 January 1966 to 24 March 1977 and from 14 January 1980 to 31 October 1984.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978), prime minister of Israel from 17 March 1969 to 3 June 1974.
- Elisabeth Domitien (1926-2005), prime minister of the Central African Republic from 3 Jan 1975 to 7 April 1976.