RIP Maggie Thatcher. National Iconic Leader

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As for comparing her to bin laden and hitler, ffs she never killed anyone!!

She is a mother and a grandmother, people should learn some morality

Maybe she didn't herself, no, but she was a staunch supporter of Pinochet during his 17 years of genocide. She also ordered an attack on the Belgrano when it was outside the exclusion zone and sailing away from conflict which makes her a war criminal.

Don't be blinded by the fact she was British like the people, her policies were some of the most extreme the UK has ever seen, the ONLY thing she can be commended for is for being the first female PM.

Then there's the Union strikes and the South Yorkshire Police's heavy handed political stance, which was in turn repaid for by covering up their involvement in the Hillsborough disaster. She labelled all football supporters as hooligans and I for one certainly hope there are no marks of respect shown at ANY games this weekend.

As far as i'm concerned, she and only she can be accountable for what she did to the country. She may well have got some stuff right, but what she did to the class divide in the country has never been fixed, and to blame Labour for everything that's happened since is to disregard the Tory-like political views of Blair and his New Labour.

Thatcherism f*cked a lot of people over and was the beginning of the end in terms of masses of debt and ultimately the downgrading of the UK's credit status. Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron and Clegg have all toed a similar line since then, despite supposedly having two polar opposite political parties in power.

VAT hike, poll tax, school closures, killing of british industry, deregulation of banks.. god knows how anyone can say she had the best interests of the UK at heart. People seem to forget that the poor working class are the ones that keep industry going. All the middle class with their mid-high level management positions may claim they pull the shots, but at the end of the day the grafters at the bottom of the ladder on minimum wage deserve more respect than the vilification they received under her regime.