I'm sorry to hear of Baroness Thatcher's passing today but like that of my father a week back, I consider it a blessing.
Both died from the same thing; a stroke & both had been suffering from Alzheimer's, a terrible disease.
The vile filth from the political left are out in force, spewing vitriol & lies about her policies & their legacy. These retards have been repeating their lies for decades, so here's some truths that are the exact opposite of their lies.
Manufacturing in the UK ROSE under Thatcher, as did its profitability.
The Union tail ceased to wag the government dog.
Days lost to strike action fell by 75%.
The mines were closed down because productivity was so low, each ton of coal cost more to extract than it could be sold for.
Unionised shipbuilding was also unprofitable, with Japanese & Korean shipyards building more modern vessels for far less money.
British Leyland was a communist union riddled joke, producing rubbish cars at a high price.
Thatcher replaced this with Nissan & Honda; major UK manufacturers to this day.
She opposed sanctions against SA because we were at the height of the Cold War & I for one wouldn't have wanted the Soviet fleet to have a base there. Once that threat was removed, she worked tirelessly for a democratic & peaceful end to apartheid.
She brought about a peaceful transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe (though IMO this was a huge failure for the people there, who suffer under Mugabe to this day).
No other PM would have had the balls to take back the Falklands.
The Belgrano was an enemy warship & one quite capable of decimating the transports in the UK task-force & thus was a threat that needed neutralising - remember that the submarine tracking her had already lost contact one, with possibly disastrous consequences.
She was grateful to General Pinochet for the aid given during the FI War & distanced herself from him in the end, though she should have done so sooner.
She saw Gorbachev's potential & did what she could to build contacts & help him with his changes, ultimately leading to the freeing of Eastern Europe & the end of the Cold War.
The council hose sell-off not only gave huge numbers of people a real stake in the nation but also provided funds used to build a great number of Housing Association homes.
BT went from a lacklustre phone company to a multinational technology leader.
A huge investment was made by the privatised water companies in cleaning up sewage.
The list of her achievements goes on.
So all you bone-idle, socialist parasites who weren't even born when she was elected can all just go & fuck yourselves.
The same goes for the rest of the whining socialists who read this.