The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
A few days ago (as you'll know) the former Conservative British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher died aged 87 after suffering a stroke at the Ritz Hotel. Thatcher is known in terms of records as being the first female Prime Minister and as the longest serving Prime Minister of the last century, serving from 1979 to 1990. The legacy of Thatcher divides many, and she is one of the most controversial figures in British History - prompting some to compare her to Marmite.
Her critics say that she took control of a country and ripped it apart - by closing down old industries that had been with us since the Industrial Revolution, by privatising key services, ripping apart communities and poisoning politics. Her supporters say that she grabbed the country and dragged it into the twenty first century by making Britain competitive again, restored national pride lost of the fall of the Empire by retaking the Falklands, helped bring down the Soviet Union and ruled with conviction rather than the compromise of the post-war period.
So what's your opinion? do you think her legacy is one of a woman who ruined Britain, or one of somebody who made Britain great again?
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