Matt the Czar wrote:Why does she get such bad press here? It seems like she was the devil of britain.
the Devil? mate, the Devil doesn't want anything to do with her, she's privatising Hell and has already shut down half its pits!
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as for the hate from the living... a lot of it is in the North of England, Scotland and Wales due to her shutting down almost all of the country's manufacturing base, entire counties were left devastated and haven't recovered to this day, as she believed that "the market would sort them out", and now those areas have high unemployment, drug and crime problems, imagine is a President brought in reforms that destroyed the economies of entire states and you'd start to understand how great an impact this had on the country. She deregulated The City that led to the rise of the finance sector (you know, the one that caused the Global Banking Crisis), ushered in the very American "socialism is bad" view into British politics, something we're still trying to get over to this day, ordered the sinking of the Belgrano, an World War Two Argentinian battleship that was sailing AWAY from the Falkland Islands and towards International Waters, she was a notorious homophobe, brining in Section 28, something very, very, similar to the homophobic legislation Russia recently brought in, the Trade Unions are a shadow of their former selves, children below the poverty line peaked at 30% during her government, and by 1997 it was the highest in Europe, she never won a landslide, those elections had very low voter turnout and she didn't even win half the votes, due a recent split in the Labour party splitting the left, she supported Apartheid, refused to so much as meet was Nelson Mandela, who she viewed as a "terrorist", yet was more than willing to have tea with various murderous military dictators, and last of all, two words: Poll Tax
though I will be nice to her this once and point out that Regan was shit scared of pissing her off during the illegal US invasion of Grenada, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations which recognises Elizabeth II as its Monarch.
plus she was loved by the Daily Mail, a "newspaper" so infamous and far right that many take being hated by it as a badge of pride
http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/ oh and a lot of people were pissed that she was getting a State Funeral during a time of austerity when Clement Attlee never got one, plus there was a much better proposal
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