I suppose that in bill sables rosetinted 1997 Thatcher was still alive so such threads didn't exist. The real me isn't a great deal any less vitriolic towards her than the more shoot from the hip Musket nonsense.

If people are minded to laud praise on her it is only right that a sense of balance allows the other side of her to be examined too.   If anything makes me queasy it isn't people pointing out the damage she was responsible for, it is the revisionists who praise her whilst trivialising her faults.

She supported apartheid South Africa whilst her husband enjoyed business interests there.

In support of the above she called Mandela a terrorist.

Her son's financial services stake in Cementation whilst she pushed through TML would not stand the scrutiny MPs have now. The corruption would be exposed.

She was Prime Minister of all, and forgot that when she called me the enemy within. Not just the Scargill rebel rousers with their own sticky fingers on union funds but the majority, the miners who were victims caught in the cross fire.

She was the mother of Gordon Gekko.

She was the monster made by the Frankenstein figure of Nicholas Ridley. The praise she gets was in reality the naivety that allowed her to push the dreams of the nasty buggers behind her.

Till they couldn't control their monster and dropped her.

Funny old world.