Why do people rate Thatcher as a PM when she actually ruined this country.?

Question

Think about it, everything bad about Britain started in the dark days of the Thatcher years. Tell me something good she actually did.

Answer 1

I'm glad it's not just me who thinks that that awful woman is single handedly responsible for all the ills and woes that this country faces today. I hope she rots in hell for what she did to the people of this country. And the sooner she gets there the better.

Answer 2

Good and bad mate. Better than what we have now. I have just noticed something. Nobody ever says anything about the grey man himself - Mr Major. Perhaps his style of minister is better. Less abrubt than Maggie and far more formal than Mr Sleazy Blair. I am not saying he was a good or bad PM. All I am saying is he never gets any bad or good press. Where as Maggie and Uncle Tone always get it. By the way, you don't really give a good argument about what is bad about Britian and how it originated from Thatchers era. Give me an example. You could say she sold the industry and someone would say it was in a **** state anyway and wasn't worth keeping. You could say the miners strike - but to others she just broke up the unions (which needed doing) and lost the publicity battle with Aurther. to some she destroyed it and to others she made it better.

Answer 3

Um, I remember thatcher in power and Callaghan before her and the winter of discontent in 1978 with constant strikes, inflation up to 27% under labour, the dead going un buried, rubbish piling up in the streets etc etc.

Thatcher did a lot of good in taming the unions and getting British industry to be competitive and production up. She also did a lot of harm by opening us further to the EEC then the EU. She oversaw the terrible mistake of having us in the exchange rate mechanism, that was completely out of sync with the UK economic cycle. And her end came by way of the community charge (aka the poll tax) She was what this country needed but was in power too long.

However, for all her faults, she is infinately better than the rotten lying, incompetent, sleazy war criminal, Tony Blair.

This country's current woes are VERY MUCH HIS responsibility. he has privatised more of the country's assets than Thatcher ever did. The difference is, when she sold off state assets, she sold them directly to the public. Anyone could buy a bit. Blair, on the other hand, sells stuff off in secret to his corrupt cronies.

He has never ever put this country first. at every opportunity he has made policy that favours the EU or the USA over our own national interest. He is a spiv and a traitor.

He is not feet to wipe Thatcher's shoes.

Answer 4

Those who voted for her will never admit their folly. But people still read the rubbish press and believe every word, just ask a Sun reader and they will tell you "it must be right I read it in the paper".
There is no hope for this country with so many dim wits about who vote for Thatcher and Blair politicians, they lack the ability to think and question the issues and the rest of us have to suffer because they are the majority.

Answer 5

I would rather have Thatcher in power than that tosspot shyster we got at the moment.
At least we all knew where we stood with Thatcher.
She never pretended to be on the side of the working man, then drove us into the ground.
She just drove us into the ground..lol

Answer 6

I think the only good thing she did for this county was be a woman. Feminism was reinforced by the fact a female was PM. Also I think ilegal immigration was down, not because of any laws she passed, just because they were scared of her, i know i was.

Answer 7

She did away with secondary pickets and brought in secret strike ballots - which even as a supporter of union rights, I believe was the right thing to do.

She was right to privatise those state-owned companies that competed in a global marketplace (eg Rover, British Steel) but wrong to privatise the utilities.

"Big Bang" in the city made London the world's leading financial centre.

She didn't get us into stupid wars we couldn't win.

But a lot of what she did turned out badly - selling off council houses, poll tax, and so on.

Answer 8

Because sad old men like the idea of being bossed about by a dominatrix.

Answer 9

your right she messed us up, sold fishing rights to europe privatised public services.
On the plus side she kicked as s out of Argentina when they invaded the Faulklands.

Answer 10

she was a tyrant the worst pm the country has had