If any of you had ever studied anything about economics you'd be mourning her death - under her rule an economy suffering a ridiculous level of inflation, held to ransome by unions was changed into a globally strong and powerful economy.
Yeah I remember under Thatcher getting a 12% pay rise as inflation had rocketed to some 10% by about 1990. A few years before that I got fleeced by her Poll Tax that took 1.5 months money out of my hands in tax.
Some of her moves were tough, yes, but if she hadn't had the balls to do what she had the ENTIRE UK economy would have entered a GREAT depression, akin to that suffered by Germany after WW1.
You mean like what we are in now? Isn't capitalism great!
Unemployment may have been high during her period in office
High? You bet it was. 4-5 million high, and she did it intentionally. And how did she do it, how did she cover all the social costs of the unemployment that she callously and intentionally created, you know the unemployment benefits etc etc.. Well she wrote a cheque with Scottish oil, the oil of which she kept lying about how much we had.
privatised hideously unprofitable branches that were previously gvoernment owned (improving profits and cutting customer prices in many cases as a result of this).
Are you foccing serious? Look around you at the massive monopolies delivering crap services, paying shitty wages to staff (how then need to claim benifits!) on poor terms and conditions (which in turn focs the economy) whilst paying poor performing bosses a fortune on which they pay little tax. What a success!
She opened the stock markets to your everyday man
Fleeced again, sold us what we already owned. Where is the stock market going these days? What happened to all the pension plans, remember those magical endowment capitalist fantasy policies.
over a million families bought their own homes as a result of her policies
And we now have some of the poorest housing stock in Europe. House prices are through the roof, and billions of pounds in benefits payments go not to claimants but to rich Tory Landlords. Councils have lost their rental income.
Say what you like about her, she made a success of the country in one of it's darkest hours!
You can trace the roots of where we are today, a bankrupt de-industrialised nation that makes nothing, stuck in a tripple dip recession with an even wider gap between rich and poor than ever before and with the same foccing idiots digging an even bigger hole for us all.
Roll on the 18th of September 2014!