I think the vitriol of the majority of the above posts speak volumes more about the mentalities of the posters themselves than about Mrs.Thatcher's time in office.

It is strange how someone so apparently universaly unpopular was elected so many times.
Perhaps ordinary people, those without a political axe to grind, saw things differently?

As has been pointed out and argued MANY times, when she was elected the average "man (and woman) in the street" was totally pissed off with the state the Unions and successive Labour Government had got the country in.

That she did so much to reverse the creaping tide of Socialism can be likened to the use of chemo- or radiotherapy to destroy cancer, for that is the one thing she did achieve, she reversed the cancer of Socialism.