[CaptainCrunch]

I think that people forget that Thatcher came into power when the British Economy was being crippled by the over powered Unions and the fact that major British Industry was being run by the government in a very poor manner.

The miners hated her for staring their unions in the face and rightfully breaking them with one of the most damning statistics was that labor action costs the British Economy 29 million working days lost in 1979 and she reduced that to less then a half million per year by the time she left power.

She also got the government out of the Airline, gas and mining industries privatizing them completely.

She was given the nickname of Iron Lady not by her own people but by the Soviets who found her to be formidable.

The Falklands war was an overwhelming success and helped resurrect British Pride and put them back on the World Stage as a middle to high power.

Her major downfall was caused by the implementation of a individual Community charge which became a Poll Task, her party turned against her and she was bounced out.

She was unafraid to do what she felt was right and was willing to pick a fight to do it. She broke Unions that were killing the British Economy, went to war to defend British Territory, was a major architect in the death of the Soviet Union. she didn't handle the Irish Problems well, and will forever be criticized for not meeting with Hunger Strikers (Not sure she should have, but whatever), and completely blew it on the Poll tax. But she was the leader that the British needed considering that her predecessors were the incredibly weak and terrible Labour Party.

She was the leader that the world needed at the time.