"That wording makes clear that you do not consider that she actually was a fascist head of state"
She would have been had she been given the opportunity - but she made her position quite clear whan she described Augusto Pinochet's mass murder as democracy, held a rally in his support and described the British politicians who put him under house arrest while it was decided whether he should stand trial of "running a police state" - "from the mouths of babes and politicians", so to speak.
Thatcher put the welfare of the miners as an excuse for closing the mines as an afterthought - it was never the reason, and even if it was, you don't close down an industry around which many communities have been built for many generations and not replace them
Thatcher's concern for the miners was demonstrated perfectly at Orgreave and was reiterated by the present government's refusal to hold an enquiry, which occurred five years earlier than Hillborough and still has not been fully investigated.
Jim Carroll