Had a quick read of some of the comments earlier up the thread and someone wrote:

"I doubt many here will agree, but the state of the country in the late '70s was pretty grim."

This is one of the standard cliches that are trotted out by her admirers whever Mrs T. is mentioned. But isn't the state of the UK in the early 2010s "pretty grim"? Apart from the 'economic crisis' (caused by the greedy and selfish who Thatcher encouraged)we're now a more unequal society with much higher levels of unemployment than in the 1970s; rents are much higher and housing more expensive; politicians now represent property developers, rather than voters and taxpayers, and those same developers are busily covering our countryside with 'executive' housing - much of it out of the financial reach of those who most need it. Our towns and cities are dismal 'clones' of each other and many of the big chains, which populate them, are going bust so that the tacky shopping centres begin to resemble 'after-the-apocalypse' ghost towns. And don't get me started on the state of the environment!

So goodbye Mrs T. - rest in peace but please don't come back to haunt us. It's time we moved on to something better!