Baroness Margaret Thatcher

Oh I think she’s a wonderful personality and I could watch youtube videos of her for hours on end. In 1998, I sent her a portrait drawing of herself (which was pretty good considering I’ve had no art training) in a rotten old jiffybag. I was surprised when it came back rolled up in a tube with a letter from her secretary and a signed photograph.
A lot of the manufacturing went overseas but I think that was starting to happen anyway before she took over. She transformed Britain from ‘The Sick Man of Europe’ into the world’s fourth largest economy.
She was bang on about Britain staying out of the Euro currency zone and it was her venom at the end of her premiership that I think has echoed with successive prime ministers. Okay, so a lot of soldiers died in the Falklands war but Blair wouldn’t have lifted a finger to protect British citizens from the Argentines and more British soldiers have died in the Middle East.
I liked the Thatcher government’s response to the AIDS crisis and its strong advertising about condoms advice that has probably saved my life.
I do not like bitchy, bullying people but I do not see Thatcher as that at all. I positively like her.
The people I’ve got sympathy for are the passengers on Pan Am Flight 103 who were blown out of the sky and then had the culprit released by the Labour government. It’s the Blairs I’ll be celebrating the death of!