Love her or hate her she did the job she said that she'd do. She took a country on the verge of bankrupcy and turned it round, and it was hard on all of us. She paid off the national debt, much of it left over from WW2 and got the country into credit.
Before she took over the reins my family was about to emigrate to get work and somewhere to live. We stayed and eventually the policies of the day paid off and the work came back.
We're still here, there is enough work to go around and we have a decent roof over our heads.
Those were not good or happy times but IMHO it was worth the struggle.