"It's all very well attacking her memory & trying to belittle her achievements: but the public attitudes to which I have alluded are matters of fact and record, and it is idle to pretend that they are not."
Thatcher's contribution to the 'society' she believed didn't existed was to tear it down the middle, creating a rich/poor, employed/unemployed, comfortable/struggling Britain – not only did she deliberately increase unemployment, homelessness, want, rights, access to justice, health, education.... but she radically reduced the necessary state support of those her shitty policies directly affected – that's what her "no society" speech was all about.
Please don't hand us that guff about her giving us all "the right to buy" - as a domestic electrician I witnessed up close the losing of homes by those who had allowed themselves to be conned by her "dream" and found themselves unable to pay mortgages.   I'm sure not much of this reached the leafy lanes of Cambridgeshire, but members of my family are still reeling from the effects of her inhuman policies.
One of hers and MacGregor's motives for the miners' strike was to mute the voice of the Trades Unions – however flawed, they are and remain the only say we have in how we live our lives. There is no question that it was an integral part of their policy to end that say (see Goodman's 'The Enemy Within')
Please don't patronise me – I know full well what fascism is – a little better than you, it would appear, though I have no doubt of its effects.
Thatchers's support of fascism in Chile speaks for itself, but if that were not enough, her use of the police as a private army, and her intended (and possibly actual) use of the army against striking miners makes her a fascist in the classic sense – using the forces of law and order and the military to impose the will of the state on people fighting for their livelihood and their hard-won rights (a perfect example of Mussolini's 'bundle of staves' . Thatcher is, and hopefully will remain the most hated Prime Minister in British history – it says little for her continuing supporters and for those less affected by her policies that she received the support she did for tearing Britain in half.
You people studiously avoid her support for the mass murder carried out in Chile – it has taken this long for you even to respond to it i the feeble way you have. Do you think she was having a bad blue-rinse hair day when she handed the Conservative Party to Pinochet on a plate, the way she did? Somehow I doubt it – rather she had found a soul-mate, a fellow-fascist
Jim Carroll