Under the Labour government, Britain was propping up the inefficient state owned, union controlled industries that were bleeding the country to death. Thatcher was the only person with the guts to make the tough decisions, and essentially stopped subsidizing these dinosaurs.

The short term pain of unemployment forced people to become entrepreneurs and Britain changed to a dynamic economic power house that was the envy of most of Europe.

Belly I have an internet mate who was a mechanic at a UK Morris dealer from just before Maggy. He tells that one of his jobs was to take the gear box out of every new car coming from the factory, to check it for nuts or bolts intentionally placed in them during production, by your working class, to sabotage the vehicle.

They wanted to cause harm to their employer, & did not give a damn who they hurt in the process. Then they had the hide to bitch when the companies closed down, & they were out of a job.

Are those people the "working class" you support?

I also have a mate who was one of the engineers who developed a new system of underground mining in Lithgow NSW. This dramatically increased the efficiency & productivity of those mines, extending their lives by at least 35 years. This kept miners in jobs, & Lithgow a prosperous working town, for an extra 35 years.

The mine managers in the UK, in their nationalized loss making mines, contracted for the Lithgow engineers to introduce their system to some mines in the UK to extend their lives, & reduce their crippling losses.

He found the inefficiency & feather bedding so bad that the coal was costing 4 times its sale price to produce. The unions refused to cooperate, & simply went on strike, for months.

These idiots & their decedents are still bitching that Maggy closed the mines. It was cheaper to keep these bludgers on welfare, than try to keep their industry going against their continued obstruction. Don't blame Maggy, blame the union leadership who promoted the stupidity.

As I said elsewhere, god don't we need a Maggie in Oz today.

Here's a point of view.

http://www.alternet.org/world/singer-morrisseys-scathing-letter-public-about-margaret-thatcher-terror-without-atom-humanity

One with which I pretty much concur.

We all are fated to die, and everyone's death diminishes us all. We are all connected to one another, and another human is no more. Margaret Thatcher was a compelling woman who didn't want to recognise our connection to other human beings. I remember her saying, "There is no such thing as society." There is such a thing, and I hope that most people will not deny our connection to others.

blind and uncaring to the impacts of her life time wish..
Belly,
It'll be interesting to see what you'll write when it's big Goaf's turn.

It is a measure of some that they are so self-indulgent and selfish in their hate to vie to be the first to launch disgraceful attacks before undertaker can prepare the body for burial.

They would give carrion eaters a bad name.

This was another human being. She had people who loved her too. She served as she best could.

At least a massive stroke was a more merciful end for this purposeful leader of a proud democracy.