Oh Yes! Britain was such a utopia before Thatcher. The 3 day week, planning your meals around when you had power to cook it, doing homework by candle power when the electricity -yet again- was off. Strikes at the drop of a hat so if you started a long distance journey it was a bit of a gamble as to whether or not you would arrive on schedule. Hospitals barely operating due to strikes. Rubbish uncollected, the dead unburied for weeks because of strikes.
Oh Yes! what a wonderful world was led by Heath, Wilson and Callaghan - spineless and forgettable the lot of them.

Thatcher had a mandate and did what she said she would do. Many didn't like the effects, me for one; but many recognised that it was going to be painful but it would be worth it in the end.

What has followed her have been a succession of spineless rich public school boys with no idea of how most people live or what they want from life. It is them that have led this country and almost allowed it to become bankruptthrough piss poor policies.

Yes she made a lot of mistakes and enemies but she was honest, stuck to her principles and had integrity. What you saw was what you got.

I honestly believe that history will treat her more gently than those that preceeded her or followed her. Where has the statesmanship gone? lost along with honesty and good proactive policies.

There is too much hatred here which speaks more about the haters than the hated.