in the late 70s most, even the Tories in her cabinet, thought that the rot could not be stopped that all they could do was manage a slide into a Soviet Bloc outpost. She showed us that we could save ourselves, smash the communist and union firebrands into dust. Drag the country up by the scruff of the neck. Yes the medicine was harsh but the patient needed it. She did not turn away from the task and finally helped bring down the Soviet union in little over a decade. Have your sneering anti Britishness if you must but she saved even you that hate her for it. Forgive them Maggie for they know not what they do.