Did you love her or hate her?

Like many I guess, who lived through her policies I saw first hand how she turned society on its head, some will say good some will say bad, as politics goes, I feel an indifference to all of them. Which is fairly mutual these days between politicians and voters, which they all richly deserve.

Loved. The privatisations are a bit of a foul up, having said that, state run stuff is a disgrace. Thatcher could not forsee criminality, Cambridgeshire water pump shite into rivers etc. There is no winning, unless you micro manage.

As for the miners you cant have an industry that creates stuff that no one wants to buy, Poland at the time were selling coal at a fraction of the price. The miners argument was that communities were being destroyed, i still havent stopped laughing at that.

Which brings up no 3 Thatcher ran Britain to make a profit. The sad truth is that someone, somewhere, has to make money to pay for the luxuries we enjoy, try telling that to a red. Courage, her main quality....to stand up to the banshee left.

Thank you Maggie.

I wouldn't say I loved her, but she is the favourite PM of my lifetime. She had great ability and vision. She knew her friends from her foes and treated them accordingly.
There will never be another like her. Some will say that's good, I wouldn't.

I am in my 70's so have lived under a number of PM's Harold Wilson was useless , Blair was dreadful at least Thatcher sent us into one war, Blair at least 5 times, INMO Thatcher was tough and put the UK first .

In relation to HMS Endurance hardly a fighting ship of the line , she was a Royal Navy Ice Breaker, with two small Wasp Helicopters on board a small number of Royal Marines and Spanish speaking linguistic to eavesdrop on the Argies

When Argentinian Marines in dressed as civilians pretending to be scrap dealers landed on South Georgia she sailed to the island and told the Argies to Foxtrot Oscar the Royal Marines showed them the way home,  Endurance was later involved in Combat, her two Helicopters took part in attacks on the Argie Sub Santa Fe  which the crew abandoned

Endurance sometime later her hull was damaged by ice and was eventually scraped 
 

Thatcher showed to us all that ordinary folk will sell yours and their children’s future for the price of a cheap council house .
She showed us how absurd the trade unions were in the 80s.
She facilitated the last stand of British military excellence ( with the help of the US).
I hate the fact that the UK needed a Thatcher.

The report I read claimed it may have influenced the Argies to invade the Falkland, the Endeavour spent 11 months on station the Argies signed the surrender in her ward room she was the last one to leave, she was finally paid off in 1991.

As for the coal mines I had relatives who were miners , more closed under Labour than Maggie and yes they were very difficult times back then especially in the North

Whatever.

But it seems to me she coped with the hands she was dealt. Part of being successful is not to do well only when things are in your favour, but also to be able to correct mistakes when they’re made. This Margaret Thatcher did — even up to the point of resigning when prolonging the contest would have split the party still further. As it was, the Tories remained in power for another seven years…