Her legacy is of public division, private selfishness and a cult of greed, which together shackle far more of the human spirit than they ever set free.

TBH i think they need to get it out of there system, then they can start to live again.

Did you actually read the article?

Autocorrect?

I dont know i dont do technology. Publicise it on Twitter and see what happens ( i only have one friend on facebook).

Maybe Minty can send it to Mark Steel

Her legacy will be a country free of the likes of Arthur Scargill - that well known socialist who has recently been in court trying to ensure his "free" access to a flat in London - some socialist. The only thing that ever mattered to Arthur was Arthur and the power he could yield - pity all those lemmings that are now blasting Thatcher could see him for what he was - thankfully Thatcher had his measure big style.

@mrmarksteel: What a terrible shame - that it wasn't 87 years earlier.

This.

Thatcher didn't have to be so brutal about it, but it was his greed and selfishness that provoked the reaction. Just a shame a lot of good, hard working communities had to go down with him.

A rather embarrasing thread with many people who should know better behaving in a child-like manner.

It takes a strange and depraved person to rejoice in the death of another human being.

He is partly correct - Heath had little option a combination of high oil prices and a work to rule from the miners left stocks short - the NUM wanted 40%+ IIRC and Heath offered 7%

She did - it was the only way to beat him - Arthur and Gormley were no less brutal in 72 and 74 - Arthur had it coming and he got it big time.

That would be a pretty p1sspoor legacy considering what she had to do to achieve it. She destroyed towns, villages and communities. She put in place blatantly homophobic legislation and fratenised with awful scumbags like Pinochet, racists like PW Botha, sent the SAS to train Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, was involved in blatant corruption selling arms to Saudia Arabia, and the multitude of other things.

Yet all she achieved was getting rid of miner with a part-time degree from Leeds uni. Less round of applause, more scratch your head over how someone made such a clusterf'ck of it .

My only input onto this thread, and this forum: how many on here, dancing on Thatcher's corpse, were old enough to vote in 1979? And therefore, by definition, to appreciate the situation in this country when Thatcher was voted into office?

(I was 21, btw)

I'm not getting involved in her status as a leader. I would just like to say that I find the comments on this thread utterly disgraceful and it says more about the people making them than it does about the subject.