I'm genuinely surprised at how much pro-Thatcher sentiment on here. As a Southerner and public sector worker who lived through the 80s, all I can thank her for was for politicising me. Although not directly involved I cannot forgive her for destroying the manufacturing base of the UK and consequently the communities dependent on them, and for an encore she opened up the city for the spivs to turn the stock exchange into a bloody casino! She was a bigoted, nasty Little Englander and all this talk of her being so 'marvellous' frankly makes me want to vomit! Anyone whose first response to the deaths if severAl hundred young men on the Belgrano was 'rejoice' doesn't deserve any sympathy . Sadly New Labour didn't have the balls to repeal any of her divisive laws,and with the current mob in charge we'll sadly see her nasty legacy live on. Wish I could feel anything but loathing right now but I can't I'm afraid!

I was just thinking similar about Thatcher in she got people thinking and a heck of alot of good music, comedy, filmaking, writing etc came out of people being "politicised" by the way the country was going under her. Sadly I can never seeing young people taking such an interest in whats going on around them in the future as apathy is probably the best way to describe the general view of politics since she quit.

Who was that then?

Because it wasn't Thatcher.

Yep. Me too. But I am not demonising Thatcher or spitting on her grave as others are, and it is those who were referred to.

Currently at 62 in the iTunes chart is the song.

Judging by the number of tweets asking "who's this Thatcher person?", I fear you may be correct.

Although I do live in hope that once the people who support benefit cuts realise that they too are having their benefits cut, we may see a little more animation

Must admit having been to Widnes last weekend, there and Warrington look like boom towns compared with most parts of the UK - still building houses everywhere. Car parks full of flash cars. Certainly a far cry from the 60s and 70s.

Nobody needs to demonise Thatcher. Her own evil deeds unveiled her as the devil incarnate.

Whose lives did SHE ruin?

This is a brilliant read:

[urlhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305790/Margaret-Thatcher-dead-Mail-Online-readers-pay-tribute-Baroness-thousands.html[/url

And compare that dignity with this:

[urlhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305760/Margaret-Thatcher-dead-George-Galloway-leads-chorus-celebration-left.html?ICO=most_read_module[/url

Nuff said.