In my community is is the most hated political figure ever and the reason for this is she riped the guts out of our communities.
In her first months in office, she was responsible for the abolition of universal free milk for school-children aged seven to eleven. she became known has Thatcher the milk snacther.
In 1981, a number of Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners in Northern Ireland's Maze prison (known in Ireland as 'Long Kesh', its previous name) went on hunger strike to regain the status of political prisoners, which had been revoked five years earlier under the preceding Labour government. Bobby Sands, the first of the strikers, was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone a few weeks before he died.
Thatcher refused at first to countenance a return to political status for republican prisoners, famously declaring "Crime is crime is crime; it is not political." However, after nine more men had starved themselves to death and the strike had ended, and in the face of growing anger on both sides of the border and widespread civil unrest, some rights relating to political status were restored to paramilitary prisoners.
As a monetarist, Thatcher started out in her economic policy by increasing interest rates to slow the growth of the money supply and thus lower inflation. She had a preference for indirect taxation over taxes on income, and value added tax (VAT) was raised sharply to 15%, with a resultant actual short-term rise in inflation. These moves hit businesses -- especially the manufacturing sector -- and unemployment quickly passed two million, doubling the one million unemployed under the previous Labour government.
By 1983, manufacturing output had dropped 30% from 1978.
The strikes carried out in 1984-85 by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in opposition to proposals to close a large number of mines, proved decisive. Thatcher had made preparations to counter a strike by the NUM long in advance by building up coal stocks, ensuring that cuts in the electricity supply, like those experienced during the industrial disputes of 1972, would not be required to protect the supply. Police tactics during the strikes greatly concerned civil libertarians, . Mounting desperation and poverty of the striking families - who went without any income at all whilst committed to the strike - led to divisions being formed between the miners. A group of workers, resigned to the impending failure of the actions and worn down by months of protests, began to defy the Union's rulings, starting splinter groups and advising workers that return to work was the only option remaining: the battle had already been lost.
She was know has Ragans "*****" and that is how she has been thought of in these parts for any years.
The battle of the Bean field and many other civil liberties was her legacy. if it had been up to her we would no longer have Glastonbury.... she was an arche controler who made peoples life a living hell. A lot of people died in those years because of her and I think it is now forgotten just what she did to the working classes and how much poverty was about because she coined the turm "Im all right Jack" And made a very few people very rich and a hugh amount very poor.
Not just in monery terms but emotional and spiritually, I was a youth worker then and there were thriving youth clubs when she came into power, where in those days 30p per head was spent on activities for young people, when she left there was less than 6p per head being spend and half of the clubs wer closed down.
Herion and Iraq was another legacy given by her and she became rich on the profits from cigerettes please dont get me going on this one I could go on all night. In my eyes she wasnt a ***** but the blackest Witch this country has ever known.