"Mr Blair was more successful than Mrs Thatcher in "smashing the Unions"
Utter nonsense.
thatcher deliberately took on Britain's most effective and dedicated Trades Union and won - the rest was easy for whoever followed her.
There has been enough written to show that this was a deliberate policy with long-term aims.
She went to the same lengths as any other dictator would go to, falling short of actual coup, the clearest evidence was her her use of the police and her intended use of the Army to crush the miners besieged mining villages, arrests, entry into homes, open violence towards demonstrators....
THATCHER'S LEGACY
Her declared admiration for Pinochet and her description of him as a hero of democracy should convince any doubters - usually met with a blanket silence from her supporter.
Wherever she is buried, this should be her marker, so we don't forget what she was about

"Epitaph for the eighties? "there is no such thing as society"
Prime minister Margaret Thatcher, talking to Women's Own magazine, October 31 1987

"I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation."
Jim Carroll