She was a tough nut. Hated and loved alike.

I feel like those two are contradictions, and I agree with the second. The invention of New Labour was brought about when Labour realised that Thatcher had done far too well for anyone to ever buy anything like Harold Wilson and Michael Foot again. Again, I respect them for having conviction, but Michael Foot as a prime minister would have been an unmitigated disaster.

Better a sleaze with some good ideas (Tony Blair) than a respectable man with entirely the wrong view of the world (Foot).

The iron lady was not for turning!


RIP

Damn, I thought she had been dead for years already. -_-
I bet the situation in the UK right now is similar to when Swedish prime minister Olof Palme got murdered '86. Half the country in mourning, the rest bathing in champagne. I don't know enough about Thatcher to "choose side" but I find it absolutely disgraceful to celebrate someone's death. Well, unless we're talking Hitler or Pol Pot.

RIP Thatcher

Honestly, I didn't know she was still alive I found out she was alive when she died.

For the life of me I don't understand why she's so disliked by half of Britain.

I mean, the other option was pure disaster... I think even most that hate her will admit that a lot of the stuff she did had to be done and without her, the UK would be worse off.

...yet people still hate her.

Confusing.

Democrats qoute Thatcher a lot more then Reagan.

A lot of her detractors compare Britain pre-Thatcher to Britain post-Thatcher, which isn't entirely fair, because they ought to be comparing Britain post-Thatcher to what Britain post-Wilson and Foot would have been.

I was only born in 1992, so I never really appreciated what Thatcher did. I grew up in a Labour area near Liverpool, my dad and close family were Conservative though, but overall, I got a positive impression for Thatcher. The only people I get annoyed at are those who don't seem to know who she is or dislike her just for the sake of disliking her (cause they don't actually know what she did >.>).

This is why some people hate her, because they don't want to accept their part of responsibility on their lives, they want to have someone else to make the culprit of their problems. Some people have a huge peter pan syndrome.

I definitely agree with the bolded. These past couple elections, I ask all my family and older friends who they are going to vote for, the answer? Labour or Conservative, I ask why? Because they've always voted for them >.> That simply isn't a way to progress. I feel we need another Tony Blair style shake up of Parliament just to help break these issues (changing first past the post would also help, it's an absolutely awful system that needs to go).

It is fun to kick against the grain for sure :P One issue which always lands me in hot water is my strong affinity towards greater integration with the EU and dislike of America. 

You put it well though, in Britain, if you put the effort in, there is always a way to get a good job and a good life, which we can thank Thatcher for :)