"but look at all the good she did - after all, I did OK in the 80s" - an apologist, this week.

Perfect.
The "me" culture, that she legitimised, speaking out for itself.

And while some of the criticism on here has been a bit personal and unnecessary, there's been plenty of the above on here too, equally unnecessary.

rlDid Thatcher break the trade unions?rl

Ask me a question I'll tell you the truth, unlike many on this thread I am not a made-up comedy account intent on, well, whatever it is they intend to do with false persona's, get some sort of thrill I assume.

Anyway, I did alright through Thatchers era, self employed, as independent and invincible as a young man in his 20s and 30s thinks he always is, as unwilling to pay for services used by other people as a young man always is, blaming my fathers generation for the worlds ills as every young man does.

I've grown up since then.

But nevertheless the truth remains, I voted for her and I did ok and my young family benefited too

Are you seeking redemption?

As long as sackcloth and ashes and self flagellation aren't involved.

Maybe the self flagellation.

Maybe I grew up too soon.
Left school in the summer of '82.
Didn't join the ranks of adult employment for 3 years.
I had to move to London for that.
In the meantime we had educated ourselves in petrol siphoning and being chased by police from many a picket line.
Heady days.

As it's chest-baring time ...
I did OK in the 1980's too, also self-employed, not because of or despite Thatcher but because I was in the right skill at the right time.
I never voted for her but my vote for the centre-left SDP in 1983 had the same effect, i.e. it was part of the split in the left-of-centre vote and it let the right-right in.
An unforeseen consequence for which I have carried a degree of guilt ever since for letting them in.

Another unforeseen consequence, but this time beneficial, was that I believe it led to Kinnock's clean-up of Labour, kicking out the Degsy Tendency and the other so-called socialists who were actually anything but, thereby re-aligning Labour in the centre-left ground in my view.
Blair then went further and occupied the wet-right ground as well, a step I found unpalateable but which I tolerated because who else could I vote for?
My background is working class but outward appearances would suggest middle class ... either way, my views on fairness, humanity, common decency and what government is for remain unchanged.
Hence, I despised Thatcher and my lip curls when I think of Cameron.

Go Glenda!

It might point out that it is possible to use technology to burn coal in a rather cleaner way than we did historically. And of course, you don't have the 'left overs' of that wonderfully clean form of power, nuclear.

See – you need a luvvie to do it right!

Brilliant speech. And credit too to Bercow for slapping down the prat that is Baldry. He wanted to be recalled to Parliament, at the taxpayers' expense, for an exercise in nothing other than praise?

FFS – the taxpayer shouldn't be funding masturbation by MPs.

Oh god – is it confession time?

rlMy thoughtsrl: polemic but not a rant. Family friendly. Which is more than could be said for the lady herself.

That said, Bercow should have stepped in to stop the heckling from the Tory benches.

rl7 most annoying Thatcher myths.rl