Margaret Thatcher: The Most Loved And Vilified PM

[@PhilipJackson03]

I think the one thing she isn’t criticized enough for is being a friend and supporter of Augusto Pinochet. She always praised democracy yet supported a cruel dictator.

[@JohnSmith-oe5rx]

Ki-Sean Excell Every power does these things, it’s very ignorant to blame anyone for it.

[@ezraleslie1361]

@@JohnSmith-oe5rx As if. That's exactly where power needs to be held accountable. Or at least scrutinized.

[@ezraleslie1361]

@Materazi Islam I believe either spelling is accepted. Though some might believe a hard 'z' to be unnecessarily bellicose. I would likely agree. As the letter itself appears as a kind of ultimatum.

[@ezraleslie1361]

@Materazi Islam I concur with your topographical view of germaniousness.

[@theflash10500]

I mean donald trump was best friends with putin 🤷‍♂️

[@markharrison2544]

Deindustrialisation was the result of the end of the British Empire.

[@Picnicl]

And the end of the UK as a serious country is the result of deindustrialisation.

[@Maximilian-Robespierre]

Deindustrialisation is the result of progress

[@Andy-em8xt]

The "industries" were making huge losses. As in it took more money to mine the coal than the coal was worth. The end was coming no matter what, Margret Thatcher shifted course and though it was rough we are better off because of it.

[@KonkeyVG]

@@Andy-em8xt What massive expense would result in the mines operating at a loss? wages. When the mines shut down where is the cost of keeping people alive shifted to? welfare systems. Shutting down the mines, even if they operated at a loss, stripped the nation of its industrial independence and made a major portion of the nation's labour force redundant. It caused a gulf in jobs that has still yet to be filled. All for the sake of exporting the labour force to China so that British domestic industries that need the resources can now buy them at a cheaper price because Chinese workers are exploited for little pay.

[@martymac1932]

The brit empire started to crumble shortly after ww1

[@HappyHalloween11]

There was no “she’s okay” or “idk” it was either I HATE THAT WOMAN or I LOVE THAT WOMAN

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

He who cannot speak for himself cannot speak for others.

[@thepoptingz]

@Liam T "he" can be used as gender neural

@Liam T he meant the statement

[@Robsonski96]

@@thepoptingz Don't even start with this bullshit with "pronouns"...

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

we still celebrate 🥳 the death of the witch

[@srxivi]

Rich people telling poor people how to live. What’s new ?

[@Michael-mh2tw]

People with comfortable lives pretending to be poor to take the side of people they've never actually met, what's new?

[@davidclarke6718]

Love or hate her she was one of the best prime minister this country as ever seen I was a lost unemployed young man she gave me hope I bought my first home I paid for it though my own hard work nobody gave it to me she got many things wrong but she still has to be the most inspirational prime minister ever . Nobody will ever come near her.

[@thescrout9831]

Aye, but us Scots in the north paid the price for some of yous. so did the northern english.

[@winklton]

The world is a better place without her

[@davidclarke6718]

@@thescrout9831 I'm from the North go figure that.

[@MrWayneWhite]

What I like about her is that she is never emotional and sensational. She is always professional and compose

[@interrobangings]

ah yes i too want my politicians to be cold, unfeeling robots

[@Koby3797]

@@interrobangingsit means that her decisions are not built on whim, unlike many politicians today.

[@jamesmed4]

The most loved is Sir Winston Churchill to think otherwise is absurdity.

[@MrAzboGaming]

jamesmed4 Winston’s in a league of his own. Mrs T is the best of the rest.

[@KonkeyVG]

ask bengali people

[@kevinlongman007]

@@KonkeyVG no we won't.

[@morgancoley2064]

Clement Atlee would be up there

[@kevinlongman007]

@J D Churchill did not start WW2...he was not even the Prime Minister in 1939. And how exactly is Churchill a war criminal?

[@leocordeiro81]

“In my lifetime all of our problems have come from Mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from english speaking nations across the world.” Thatcher in a nutchell

[@hsdjsdshdhsdnsmsd6247]

Very narrow minded worldview

[@johnpaul3099]

@@hsdjsdshdhsdnsmsd6247 it's harsh but true

[@kordellswoffer1520]

@@hsdjsdshdhsdnsmsd6247 but not fully wrong.

[@foundationgamer9771]

@@hsdjsdshdhsdnsmsd6247 be quiet Liberal

[@a.m11558]

And I agree with that.

[@paulthurgood7822]

I wish we could have her back as Prime Minister. She’s exactly what we need right now! She would sort this mess out.

[@cheekibreeki812]

Too bad she's in the mud pal 😎

[@donaldellis3609]

@Boston Mead 🙄💭

[@paulthesquid3595]

And make a bigger mess remember the POLL TAX there.

[@indian-tech-support]

nd what make the north even more worse

[@indian-tech-support]

@Boston Mead actually the textiles industry was still profitable

[@joe18425]

Like her or not she was a powerful woman !!

[@jarjarbinks4744]

??? So??

[@andyrogers1986]

She was a sociopath

[@gesudinazaret9259]

Yea and hitler was a powerful man too…what a dumb comment

[@ShrunkedDude]

Powerful doesn't mean good.

[@donaldbestkorea2248]

@@ShrunkedDude thats... why he said "like her or not"...

[@EugVR6]

The greats are always known by their surname and Johnson wont be remembered by his surname.

[@ronan5228]

Except for every monarch that has ever existed. Even Alexander the great is known by his first name mate, try again next time.

[@EugVR6]

@@ronan5228British Prime minister's not Royalty.

[@archyjnr]

But trump will lol

[@EugVR6]

@@archyjnr Oh most definitely😂

[@kevindare3113]

He won’t be remembered full stop

[@ivalex1001]

She was a revolutionist and saved the UK from oblivion and gain us respect and admiration from abroad.. you probably no know nothing about politics...

[@wondashozen]

Thatcher was a cruel fascist.

[@EugVR6]

100% Correct, we were billions in debt from Labour bankrupting Britain, Our national industries were ruined and we were the 2nd poorest nation in Europe. When she left office, we now had influence on the world stage and when she left office, our economy had been saved, we were only behind Germany in wealth and America danced to our tunes on the world stage and the standard of live had been transformed in this country.

[@donaldellis3609]

@@wondashozen not many people saw that but!

[@dominicchallis2928]

@@EugVR6 Tell that to the 3 million made unemployed by Thatcher or to the thousands of miners and sick and destitute abandoned by her Government, or to the educators and public servants who saw their funding cut ferociously out of ideological neglect. Many communities still bear unnecessary scars from her eventual failure of an economic experiment.

[@bangsailbest]

​@@dominicchallis2928keeping the mines would have been very economically bad

[@kevindare3113]

Well none of this lot we have today will be getting a state funeral

[@andrewh5457]

They'll be a party when WMD Blair goes.

[@garybaker525]

I loved her, Margaret Thatcher without doubt made this country great again. RIP the iron lady

[@joemorris4123]

She hated my city

[@danilo4682]

Thatcher was actually a massive anti semitist and is widely looked over to this day! Once she deported all the Jews from some of the minor cities around London and put them in this small town with terrible living conditions

[@akmalaziq3420]

The fact people vote for competent person. U don't need to make it about male or female. If they are competent irregardless wether male or female, people will vote. Especially during hard times.

[@georgemartin4963]

The world needs her type of leadership today. God Bless and RIP.

[@benwalsh773]

boooooo

[@joemanton2340]

@@benwalsh773 Booo urself

[@mechahalcon]

Most humans are scared of opposing views and normally will bend to meet demands. Thatcher believed in her policies and saw them through with conviction.

[@joseph1845]

She seemed to have very little care for the poor. She could have done more for them.

[@ByGriPhone]

Hitler did too

[@arthurdurham]

Yah I can think of a lot of leaders like that and they're mostly monsters

[@liliamayes3176]

@@joseph1845 she is the reason lower classes could afford housing, the grandparents coukd never had biugh a council house if it wasnr for her policies, true that the council dif not holf up their end of the bargain but that was to down to margaret

[@joseph1845]

@@liliamayes3176 I would agree that she did some necessary things and good things which benefitted people, but again, she could have done much more for the poor.

[@corrigenda70]

Arguably the most competent too.

[@annurch558]

Evil incarnate. Absolutely hated the women

[@timothy9434]

Hell has now been privatised.

[@AvantiBug]

Another win for the brits

[@a.brekkan4965]

Was it preferable when hell was run by the state?

[@Jemoto-wn3nw]

Why does everyone hate thatcher I’m American so I don’t know

[@darthmoo7]

@@Jemoto-wn3nw They don't. She was popular enough to become the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century, winning three consecutive elections. The people who dislike her basically just tend to be very vocal about it. She was not a centrist prime minister, she was very economically libertarian and quite socially right-wing too, and therefore she was inherently more divisive than someone who mostly sticks to the centre ground. Anyone who believes in higher taxation and more social services (welfare/benefits, nationalised healthcare and infrastructure, etc.) would dislike her libertarian beliefs and policies. She also upset a lot of people by effectively ending the mining industry in the North of England. It was the source of income for many families, but had been plagued with problems for several years (workers' strikes, unsafe conditions and accidents, and poor return on investment for the country).

[@chrisrinelambert9418]

Our country was in an awful mess when Thatcher took over a very good Prime minister.

[@olive7831]

She is rotting in hell

[@sloppyphart7879]

@@olive7831 very mature.

[@andyrogers1986]

It was even worse after she’d finished with it

[@kordellswoffer1520]

@@andyrogers1986 no actually it wasn't.

[@kevinarmstrong9760]

Hello Christine

[@peretzo]

An excellent summary of Thatcher’s legacy

[@sunspotst7697]

Betrayal is the word and these old selfish men didn't want a woman telling them what to do!

[@joshuapeters567]

She ruined people life's dumbass

[@artofthepossible7329]

@@joshuapeters567 So have many Prime Ministers before and after so that ain't nothing new.

[@joshuapeters567]

@@artofthepossible7329 true

[@donaldellis3609]

@@artofthepossible7329 yes but she meant it😏

[@robertalmond1898]

A woman who stand her own. Ruled a long time. Thatcher is my idol.❤💯💯

[@cloudlymars3627]

Shes a murderer but k

[@razepp]

Fys

[@GrahamH1947]

I wish that we had politicians in Canada who created such passion in both love and hate.

[@TKinfinity01]

We have Trudeau now. So... I am still wishing your vision to one day become a reality.

[@TKinfinity01]

@ There is a possibility. The Cons might pull through, bit it will be close.

[@broadstreet21]

We did. Trudeau Sr was just like Thatcher, only he was a liberal. Loved and hated equally, still the most influential Canadian of all time.

[@rowdyraptorsenthusiast6537]

@ b4 the 2021 election people from both the left and right hated on him yet he somehow still get re elected

[@therealpvc2541]

@@TKinfinity01 Poilievre!

[@surajratti1329]

Never mind Mrs Margaret Thatcher it was Princess Diana who captured their harts

[@ryujigoda3445]

But Diana loved the bud bud ding 🫣

[@georgemartin4963]

Courageous and unflinchingly steadfast, the world needs her type of leadership today.

[@shack7631]

I hated the woman and raised a glass on the day she died. However, there is no doubting she was a hugely significant politician

[@zack7438]

At least she had the courage to be disliked unlike so many today who pander for votes.

[@bhaddfattie1858]

i mean she did nothing to increase the employment rate or anything to help with the aids crisis

[@blu3_enjoy]

aids was not a crisis

[@jk196115]

@@blu3_enjoy tell that to the people who died

[@xobes4113]

She brought the England from downfall. And yes, there was a temporary rose in unemployment but it was inavoidable result of cutting government interventions in market. If she wasn't elected, the England would be second Venezuela now.

[@MisserimusPexer]

Not true. It was her government that put out the hard-hitting ads in the 1980s warning of the dangers of Aids. Including the infamous Aids tombstone. Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, completely buried his head in the sand would not even say the word for years.

[@polygonalfortress]

@@blu3_enjoy ah and the holocaust was just a footnote in history, gotcha

[@petersinclair8718]

Sir Bernard Ingham was and is totally correct with what he said.

[@andyniblock]

A true patriot, best PM since WSC.

[@71Splinter]

That's a good one

[@andyrogers1986]

A patriot doesn’t dismantle their country and flog it off to foreign shareholders. She wasn’t a patriot. She destroyed Britain.

[@stevenrawlinson1998]

Maggie's in the mud, in the mud. Maggie's in the mud.

[@Averifiedperson7712]

The most overrated one. She did nothing about Liverpool

[@36reaper]

yea

[@davidlawel9747]

I faithfully believe that she was the greatest post war prime minister the UK ever had. Love her or not, she had a backbone and grace, and would never have behaved like half of the MPs do today!

[@suhailshafi]

Remarkable woman ! I do understand she was deeply polarizing among her people.

[@TheRightHonRai]

God bless her. They don’t make em that way anymore. Strong traditional conservative women

[@uAvengerable]

Who's they?

[@braxfan683]

Thank god they don't!

[@TheRightHonRai]

They (that’s just a term used). I would say God.

[@TheRightHonRai]

@@braxfan683 she was someone who stood tall, carried herself with elegancy. Someone who despite being destroyed by the media continued to be elected by the people of this country. She of course got things wrong. Mistakes were made. But the liberties, freedoms and much of the prosperities including economic growth around the world especially the developing world was because of her. She has given more to the people of the world than can ever be repaid. The west had a policy to try and contain communism and entered into many proxy wars. She had no stomach for containing communism. She destroyed it without firing a bullet providing millions of people around the word with new freedoms.

[@joshuacoaker6987]

3:37 I love this man 🤣

[@ivalex1001]

Totally agree.. she was a great REVOLUTIONIST, moreover, she was greatly RESPECTED and help in high ESTEEM abroad!!

[@BossySwan]

Brilliant PM

[@andrewh5457]

And what has labour done for the working class, they are all the same underneath, we are just cash cows. I've lived under labour, tory, coalitions, and I've never been noticeably better off under any of them.

[@rboddington]

Absolutely the best post war leader. She went a bridge too far on the Poll Tax, her only mistake.

[@jayrodny8419]

The only British PM I like

[@MrJackPD]

Our last great politician.

[@uAvengerable]

Past is often romanticized. Parts of England celebrated her death dont forget.

[@АлпамысРустембек]

Scottish, Welsh and Irish people have something to tell

[@thegowerboy]

The lady gave so many people real opportunity in life.

[@kadnaz]

pfft, tell that to the families who had their lives completely ruined by the witch

[@w.s.6837]

@@kadnaz like who?

[@ericfitzgerald435]

@@w.s.6837 scottish, northern english and irish?

[@w.s.6837]

@@ericfitzgerald435 the only people who got their lives ruined by her are those lazy bums who refuse to work and make a positive difference.

[@jackorooney1469]

Ah yes the people killed in the Falklands, working classes, unions and the many miners totally had great opportunity because of her

[@thomasthetanderloin]

3:32 this is what america is now

[@davidclarke6718]

This country’s biggest loss

[@michaelgoulding6609]

she was poison,glad she,s dead

[@cumhere1475]

David Clarke countries best loss, still celebrating her death

[@miqueiasmartins7270]

Margaret Thatcher is THE BEST PM since Winston Churchill. After her... Great Britain went down the tubes.

[@36reaper]

ok tory

[@alecneate76]

3:31 so true, especially today

[@jarjarbinks4744]

I don’t see any success happening with my government 😭

[@dryflyman7121]

As a retired professional 78 year old, who has always voted Conservative, I can now say without hesitation, that the Thatcher years were the worst political disaster that this country has ever endured with damage inflicted that we will never recover from. She was a dreadful, narcissistic tyrant and I now realise was probably totally deranged. Whilst I don’t support labour, particularly Kier Starmer, I have to say moving her portrait from his sight is probably the only successful thing he will ever achieve.

[@Kelly14UK]

Couldn't agree more. Peoples' rights were marginalised under Blair. Assuming you had a problem with ANYONE, how easy do you think it is to contact the necessary parties for satisfaction? Complaints are now regarded as a joke. Furthermore why did Jack Straw implement a legislation making it harder for abused children? What did Tony Blair sign away in Lisbon with his tenancy at 10 a matter of weeks from ending? I hate that lot nearly as much. And look at the bloody roads... that wasn't the Tories.

[@CARLIN4737]

Thatcher sorted this country out.

[@36reaper]

the working class would not agree

[@michaelwalker4022]

Greatest Prime Minister this country and indeed our nation had greatly missed our Iron Lady God bless Lady Thatcher remarkable Lady!

[@countingcards1208]

Blamed the fans for the Hillsborough disaster and closed down coal mines which were the heart and soul of many communities.

[@Derrako]

Should have been up north during the day... Grim.

[@mogz1485]

We can all agree, she was a very strong prime minister

[@sospeteranyango6274]

My best British Prime Minister ever .God bless her soul

[@Scanman279]

Ayo the title funny af

[@thastayapongsak4422]

"clearing path for business enterprise and wealth creation" more like destroying democracy by taking away the people's power.

[@machscga6238]

Sounds like someone needs a helicopter ride 🚁 🇨🇱

[@Mikacool]

There is no proof, no. Neither you or I truly know she had knowledge of it. So the benefit of doubt has to lie with her on that one.. And I'm consistent with that view for everyone.

[@Kelly14UK]

If she was THAT GREAT, why did even the Tories kick her out in 1990. Wake up. She was hated. Rose tinted spectacles of nostalgia more like....

[@mrchair24]

Here people had no balls. She won three elections.

[@willdavis6504]

Stepped down and what happened soon after labour got in

[@ivalex1001]

LOOSEN UP AND ENJOY LIFE, FRIEND, LIVE WITH LOVE IN YOUR HEART!!

[@dean-gm1lg]

More balls than any modern politician

[@dean-gm1lg]

@@duffelbagdragyes Maggie didn't take any nonsense

[@carlosalbert7667]

More balls than all current European leaders combined.

[@carlosalbert7667]

@@duffelbagdrag Let's settle at Western Politicians combined.

[@jacquelinejones5444]

Long live Thatcherism Would not be overrun with immigrants and asylum seekers under Thatchers watch. There would not be a culture on lazy benefit scoungers under Thatcher. We would not have an enormous national debt under Thatcher. We need more Thatchers We real conservatives, not the soft lefty Tories of today. Rest well Thatcher, one of the best among us!

[@torcaace]

stfu boomer

[@markbish56]

the best PM since Churchill

[@stephenroche5107]

PURE EVIL ON EARTH.

[@teresaharrison5773]

My first vote in 1979 was for Margaret Thatcher. Ken Clarke is just as bad today!!!!

[@kevinarmstrong9760]

Hello Teresa

[@andreisecara6012]

Data morții: 8 Aprilie 2013, 🇬🇧 Hotel Ritz, Londra, Regatul Unit

[@petermitchelmore2592]

Ever since Thatcher lost her marbles in 1988, the British Conservative party has been a dwindling force.

[@ldsgermanshepherdboy9272]

I'm confused about Margaret Thatcher. She seems like an interesting character.

[@nicholasmwangangi6257]

Your confused about her bombing IReland

[@ldsgermanshepherdboy9272]

@@nicholasmwangangi6257 I'm just saying I want a full on two sided analysis. One side says she was great and amazing, the other said that she was the devil himself. *shrugs* I'm just wanting to keep an open, un-opinionated mind on the matter.

[@nicholasmwangangi6257]

@@ldsgermanshepherdboy9272 look at the miners' strike of 1985 and the Irish bombing campain

[@ldsgermanshepherdboy9272]

@@nicholasmwangangi6257 OK, I can definitely check those out. But what about events or things that made her popular? I have studied the Falkland Islands war, very interesting. I could see both sides having issues with each other.

[@invalide]

check out what she said about section 28 and her stance on apartheid

[@duncansmith8992]

Kinnock was an absolute coward of a man.

[@kevinarmstrong9760]

Hello Smith

[@duncansmith8992]

@@kevinarmstrong9760 Hello Kev.

[@kevinarmstrong9760]

How is your day going over there?

[@duncansmith8992]

@@kevinarmstrong9760 Very well Kev. Thanks for asking.

[@ThePostalGril]

im so sad im too young to remember her. ive been binge watching everything about her this past few weeks i love her so much

[@personifiedape5347]

She was PM until I turned 11. Amazing woman!

[@DinoDino118]

@@personifiedape5347 Yep i sure loved how she ruined millions of lives. Real great women

[@annmorgan5130]

I think she was the best prime minister we've ever had

[@michaelahern6821]

No matter how many years pass by ....she'll always be despised...

[@romanboxing3959]

And loved

[@Kelly14UK]

And also, that the feeling I get is that Labour gave to all, however the Tories have it in for anyone who doesn't like them. There's real contempt there from them. That's coming from a neutral.

[@darthmoo7]

I consider myself to be a centrist, and I think the opposite. But I guess that's why we're neutral/centrists!

[@chrisrogers3457]

Was fan of her BUT NOT VOTING AGAIN

[@kieronhart4749]

Here because of the Crown

[@u.nforcesalx9892]

Ireland:The lie Detector has spoken That was a lie Mate

[@alexandradane3672]

How I wish for the return for Lady Thatcher . As do the majority of people today.

[@36reaper]

no?

[@theresamclaren3638]

Maggie would not have put up with immigration illegal migrants

[@touchedbynature5445]

A Great Prime Minister. 🇬🇧

[@chamberpot969]

The best male Prime Minister ever.

[@Lat265]

David Ames, her mate that worked for her in early 1980s was murdered today. Maybe Ames got the man’s benefits stopped or he wronged him in another way. Tories have blood on their hands…..

[@FQP-7024]

Australia liking the imperial boot till the end, that's dedication

[@panzfaust9812]

Comments is as polarized

[@grazianomoretto5491]

an horrible way to solve problems.

[@gillianbarker8516]

What a woman...she wouldnt have put up with this brexit crap at all...infact any of the madness going on now...Rip maggie..

[@briandenning7081]

Gillian Barker she wouldn’t have called the referendum in the first place. She didn’t believe in them. Keep the peasants in their place was her attitude

[@jimjefftube]

Smart, strong and most of all right! Thank God for Maggie, Ron & George H.W. Bush (41)

[@yungstallion2201]

Quality of life📈 Economic powerhouse📈 Falkland📈

Dont let women run.

[@paulcarruthers2431]

That's disgusting the most loved

[@chinkayeok6117]

UK needs another Thatcher 😀

[@stockimageshrimp]

That's the very last thing we need

[@36reaper]

falce

[@Mikacool]

The Labour party are from perfect. And they're not as 'good samaritan' as people think they are! I probably hate Tony Blair's guts as you hate Maggie's in fairness. For many different reasons.

[@2007Tarkus]

I can honestly say I hated her since 1979 when she came to power what an awful person

[@36reaper]

👍

[@DAG924]

I just found out "Ding dong the witch is dead" was on the top charts during her funeral. FYI I am not from Britain.

[@felissylvestris6557]

oh this is awful 😂

[@Mikacool]

Is there any actual proof she had knowledge of the cover up by the Police? I couldn't find anything.

[@classicartfoundation639]

I'm a fan, I liked her strength of character, not saying I agreed with all her decisions but she had qualities lacking in today's idiots in power