In Years To Come Do You Think....

[stokemaveric]

that david cameron and his policies will be as hated as much as margaret thatcher and her policies are.. now that she has died?

[bert_h]

Of course. Ditto Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill, Edward Heath, ... Because Britain has operated a two-party system for so long, whatever the party in power does will be hated by nearly half of the country. There's nothing different about Margaret Thatcher.

[2sp_]

Other than she was a woman, bert..?

I've long wondered if Mrs T would be less hated if she had been a man...

[stokemaveric]

i cant remember there being so much hatred shown to a person after their death..thats my point..so how can she be portrayed as being a ''great prime minister?'' while she is so clearly despised by millions?

[beckersjay]

Perhaps because she is revered by millions more - UK and abroad

[Prudie]

Because like it or not she is also admired and revered by millions. No other PM of any party has been very 'effective', the closest candidate would be Blair.

[China Doll]

Not sure, I reckon this bedroom tax thing has got us all very divided so yes, maybe.

Thatcher is hated and loved because of her determination and strength (rightly or wrongly, she had both). I think personally the better question to ask is would these qualities be recognised so strongly if she was a bloke? For me, anyone with the character she had would always be loved and hated in equal measures. I think some of the characteristics she had we would associate with more masculine qualities, I suspect (and I'm very willing to be proved wrong), that the person that was similar may have been Queen Elizabeth I... Just some thoughts that have been rattling in my brain recently :c)

[ELVIS68]

No, although she may be despised by millions, she's probably admired by more

Pathetic that people are celebrating her death, sad individuals

[stokemaveric]

cameron and the conservatives policies are more damaging to the sick,unemployed and the weak in our society than thatchers ever were..if it were not that they were in a coalition with the lib/dems then they would be even more devestating..

[wimp]

It looks to me that there are more threads against M.T than for!

[weecalf]

Dont want to sound obvious but did not Margaret and David follow an awful Labour goverment .So in fact we can blame the labour mob for the tory mob .

[woofgang]

AlMurray does a routine in his stand up where is says "of course its all the "name of previous government in power"'s fault, then points out that some of their policies were actually the same as their predecessor and carries on the regression...he says he has to stop at Pitt the Younger because the audience get bored.....

[tiggerblue10]

More people supported MT than hated her. She wouldn't have been elected 3 times if that wasn't the case.

I don't feel David Cameron has the same strength of character and impact that she had. She was head and shoulders above everyone else and knew how to put people in their place. Thats why people are so passionate about the way they feel about her. Positively or negatively.

[FredPuli43]

Clem Attlee was disliked a lot, even hated, by a substantial body of the middle class but the difference was that back then there was a real class war, there was a real battle between socialism and established capitalism, with no middle ground.It was the Labour Party that was hated more than its leaders individually (and vice versa). No Labour government now would bear any resemblance to "Old Labour". Tony Blair succeeded because he detached the party from the past, having learnt a lot from Mrs Thatcher .

[boxtops]

Margaret was memorable - both strong and female. All the bloke PMs recently just morph into the same unmemorable person - she stands out, that's why people remember her. I didn't hate her and I still don't. Someone had to do it.