I, like others, hated and detested her, her party and all that she stood for. As someone who witnessed the effects of her blind dogma on the people of South Wales during the Miners' strike of '84-'85 I can never forgive her or her party for all the suffering caused by her blind passion to destroy trades unionism across Britain. Nor can I ever reconcile myself to subsequent governments of either hue turning their faces away from the pain they caused. It is well to remember that it was the administration of her successor John Major who pushed through most of the privatisation programme that she initiated. Once she was out of power the hawks in the Tory party took advantage of their leader's weak and ineffectual grip on power (he was probaly to busy with Edwina Curry) to sell off the family silver to their friends and /or the highest bidders. Not one penny of that did anything to make our lives better.
They're probably building bonfires in Toypandy Squre even as we speak and I for one would gladly go and warm my hands at them. No tears here either.