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That's interesting. My English better half and I were just discussing this very point over dinner. We came up with a much different conclusion. I'd argue that Thatcher will come out on the top of a list of Britain's greatest non-wartime Prime Ministers.
Time, however, is going to be far less kind to the architects of "New Labour" - messrs Blair, Brown, Campbell and Mandelson.
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Thatcher is still hated, the breaking of the miners union was in effect the breaking of the north by the service industry south, even if you thought it was inevitable it was uneccersarliy brutal and even in Wimbledon, as rich a middle class tory voting southern borough as you could get, donations of food for the miners were overflowing outside Sainsburys and most felt nothing but sympathy for the families and mining towns being destroyed.
She also ushered in the era of greed which in the UK meant americanism, and the perceived end of 'traditional british values'.