Probably (in no particular order):

- The poll tax being first implemented here in Scotland

- Implicit support for South Africa's apartheid regime

- Squandering Scottish oil revenues on unsustainable tax cuts

- Allowing the US to station nuclear cruise missiles in the UK when there was very strong anti-nuclear feelings

- Ruthlessly closing heavy industries with no apparent thought for the social costs ("no such thing as society") - this hit central Scotland really badly

- The "Sermon on the Mound" - which upset a lot of Christians in Scotland

- The violence and oppression of the Miners Strike (mind you, not that the miners were saints)

- Insensitive handling of Northern Ireland (e.g. the hunger strikers)

NB I'm not necessarily saying that I agree with all of these points - but there is still a lot of bitterness in Scotland about the Thatcher years.

Personally, I think she probably did more good than harm for the UK as a whole - but lets not pretend that there was a lot of harm caused by her goverment and a whole generation of people in Scotland will never forget that.

cstross isn't Scottish though he lives in Edinburgh, but I think he's Northern English so the same general principle applies:

Being a Scottish Tory is like being an African-American Republican. Even if you agree with some or most of their stated policies, you're all too aware of the fact that in reality they've been waging class-warfare against you, your family and neighbors for decades and that often the libertarian (or otherwise) economic theories are just convenient masks for the worst kind of nepotistic crony capitalism, and that wide support for their polices is gained via populist xenophobia.

You may be in need of a libertarianism sensor recalibration.

She was one of those people who manage to inspire emotion in others.

A lot of bad, but she garnered (and still does somewhat) a huge amount of respect.

For someone who has so much public hatred around her, you have to remember she still managed to win elections while all this was far more raw and happening around her.

Her election success is only because the voting system here is biased and most of the population aren't really evolved past primate level. The media control the outcome of an election.

Her popularity is a myth perpetrated by the media.

There is no respect from anyone who knows the facts.

"But that guys knows the facts and HE respects her."

"Ah, but he doesn't TRULY know the facts."

Long story short, please take your no-true-Scotsman and shove it.

Thatcher was not Hitler, but all the things you just said could also be said of Hitler. He won elections, too. So what?