Thread:Comments:Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies aged 87/Negatives/reply (9)

She was responsible for a whole swathe of legislation aimed at eroding people's rights and liberties. Best-of-friends with Pinochet and Saddam. Always referred to Mandela as a 'terrorist', most-likely gave the go-ahead for extra-judicial executions over The Troubles - as-in the IRA vs British Establishment in Northern Ireland.

You're comparing her, a right-wing ideologue whose outlook borders on fascism, with a spoilt brat that just inherited a very sick state with nuclear weapons. She put US cruise missiles on British soil. She used the police to enforce her political will in her obsessive war to smash unions. Police, brought in from London on overtime, kettled, coshed, clubbed and charged striking miners on horseback. Those on picket lines, many of whom had near-starving families at home, faced riot police who would stick £20 notes on their shields to try and goad people into moves that allowed them to act as thugs.