It's strange that Lady T attracts so many proposals as the most unpopular PM of all time. She won three successive General Elections with 43.9%, 42.4%, and 42.2% of the popular vote. This compares quite favourably to the 43.2%, 40.7% and 35.2% gained by Labour in the three elections where Tony Blair was their leader.
What needs to be appreciated about her tenure (which nobody much under the age of 60 can really grasp) is that it began at a time when the country was virtually on its knees and whatever policies were adopted to tackle the crisis some people were bound to suffer. There is a similarity between 1979 and 2010 in that the country's economy had been wrecked by a Labour government. But there, alas, the similarity ends.