She's hated by certain segments of the UK population - particularly the media class - but that does not seem to translate broadly:

- She won three general elections, the last two of which were landslides

- She was the longest serving prime minister of the 20th century

- In 2008 a BBC poll for favourite post WW2 prime minister put her at number 1

She was why so many of us can't afford to buy a house on what we earn. This is where the anger comes from. And currently we're very angry with the Tories over many things, energy costs, cost of living and the outbreak of Pinocchio's disease at Number 10.

Labour also helped make housing unaffordable the average cost tripling under their watch. While they were in power I saw my ability to buy a house erode, outstripping my ability to borrow on my salary, even as a fresh graduate.

Is she? People couldnt afford to buy houses in the 1980s, which is why 40% of the population lived in council housing. High rates of home ownership are a generational anomaly, not the norm.

The 1983 election saw a 1.5% swing of the vote away from the Conservative party; the Conservatives gained 58 seats largely due to the splitting of the vote between the Labour and Alliance parties - taking 61% of the seats with only about 42% of the vote. The 1987 election was along the same lines.

That these victories were landslides says more about the vagaries of the first-past-the-post electoral system than it does about the popularity of the Conservative party from 1979-1987.

Frankie Boyle on the subject: "Three Million for the funeral of Margaret Thatcher? For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person."

Frankie Boyle on Thatcher's funeral procession: "She hasn't brought central London to a standstill like this since the Poll Tax riots."

I think at the point you're quoting Frankie Boyle you've already lost the argument

The problem with pissing on Thatcher's grave is eventually you run out of piss.

Hence the queue. By the time you need to go again ...

There is no other public person that one can be so unabashedly disgusting about. Not even Hitler, Stalin or Mao, all three literal mass murderers, get this kind of reception in each and every thread about them. What is it about Thatcher that makes celebrating her death and wishing to desecrate her corps somehow okay?

You might want to read up on some of the things she did whilst in power.

Supported the Pinochet regime for starters, as well as the behind the scenes behaviour in the miners strike. Right to buy leading to a shortage of council houses which persists to this day, etc. etc.

But no, people saying mean things is the REAL problem.

> You might want to read up on some of the things she did whilst in power.

I know what she did

compared to say, Tony Blair, in terms of foreign policy she was a saint

> But no, people saying mean things is the REAL problem.

nice straw man

> Right to buy leading to a shortage of council houses which persists to this day, etc. etc.

it's not as if we've had 10 or so subsequent governments that could have abolished right to buy, is it?

quite why some adult's behaviour becomes worse than average 12 year old playing xbox every time Margaret Thatcher is mentioned I really don't understand

(I know why really... it's the the ultimate virtue signal for the tolerant left)

Abolishing right to buy once it had happened was bolting the stable door after the horse had bolted. The council housing stock was already gone.

And we're not talking about her foreign policy per se (Pinochet excluded) but the toll she, and the party, inflicted on a large proportion of the population.

LGBTQ+ people in particular were affected by Section 28.

But no, you've glibly responded to what is obviously a retelling of an OLD joke to paint anyone left of her as evil, adding nothing at all to the conversation other than more political point scoring.

> Abolishing right to buy once it had happened was bolting the stable door after the horse had bolted. The council housing stock was already gone.

the next 32 years of governments were more than capable of building more

they fact they didn't... is Thatcher's fault?

> And we're not talking about her foreign policy per se (Pinochet excluded)

you brought it up

> LGBTQ+ people in particular were affected by Section 28.

yes, agreed

> But no, you've glibly responded to what is obviously a retelling of an OLD joke to paint anyone left of her as evil, adding nothing at all to the conversation other than more political point scoring.

the sad part is it's not a joke