I'm not going to dance on her grave. Even if I hated her, which I don't. She had a lot of notions that I disagreed with:
In her memoirs, she wrote that the The Troubles in Northern Ireland were sorely the fault of the IRA, and that they would end as soon as they were defeated. That's so stupid and one sided it's contemptible. It ignores the fact that the Provos only came into being a full five to six years after the renewed Ulster Volunteer Force began a campaign of violence against those 'jumped up taigs' in the Civil Rights Association who dared to ask for equal treatment for Catholics...who also had to contend with the loyalist dominated police beating them for daring to demonstrate their right to protest. Oh, and the Parachute Regiment gunning down people on Bloody Sunday give the IRA all the support they ever needed. The Troubles were bigger than the IRA.
She backed the South African Apartheid regime, supported right wing dictators, and set in motion the systems that have caused the problems of today. But...
Britain needed her. Those unions were simply out of control, dictating policy to successive governments. The country was broke and in decline...we had to go to the IMF for beslubber's sake. Three day weeks...power cuts...strikes...Br itish Leyland (seriously, beslubber BL)...the systems were so backward, the world didn't want to know. She came in with vision and conviction, and the drive to fix the country the way she thought it needed to be fixed. I really admire that. Modern politicians are utter spineless liars who put holding on to power at all costs first.
And I will say this. She's been out of power for 23 years. Labor was in power for 13, during the 'boom time'. They had plenty of time to fix any problems left behind by her, but they didn't. Nope, Tony just used her policies to actually turn the clock back to before. State control is out of control once more, and Labor pissed away any chance to rebuild the country's manufacturing base. Oh, and Labor also sabotaged the country in a disastrous attempt to make sure the Tories could never be in power again. You know why the left hate her so much? Her legacy reminds them of how utter failures they were, and still are.