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She did not commit genocide in Britain (this hasn’t happened for centuries to be fair) but certainly did bring our country to the brink of civil war and is known for openly supporting régimes which were involved in very bad stuff including genocide to preserve UK business interests, even more so than more recent politicians.

you cannot stop people celebrating the death of their enemies, any more than it is possible to stop any other form of conflict or warfare or people being racist etc. I’m sure that when drug users die especially celebrities and pop musicians there are people what openly think “one less of them” and quietly celebrate, and when Nelson Mandela keels over (as he is very unwell and elderly too) that the rightwingers will celebrate. Its just that they might do it more deviously than those who were against Thatcher – or maybe not, don’t forget that the increasing use of internet social networks divides and polarises groups of people.

All that said I think it is only the complex system of modern democracy and relatively abundant resources that stops a Northern European country like the UK descending into civil conflict and potential genocide, and this is way more fragile than many folk realise.

@photographthesun 539892 wrote:

Still not sure I dislike her much the more I hear the more I like her. Though clearly she destroyed some communities but you could easily argue the unions endless mass strikes at a time when the economy was fucked did just as much damage. All before my time thought really so its just what I am picking up from the news and stuff I have read in the past.

She seems like a popular figure to hate which immediately makes me suspicious.

She created short term gains for the South of the UK at the expense of the North and the other countries that make up the UK. However in her cabinet she wasn’t even the most right wing and there were others harder than here what took the power as she was getting ill by the late 1980s.

In any case people in UK seem to enjoy hating others and conflict over consensus much more than comparable countries in Europe (something I’ve learned alongside learning other languages). The same economic and political turmoil happened across Northern Europe (with also the spectre of foreign troops on their soil and constant threat of nuclear attack) and yet these countries by the late 80s/90s had coped with it far better than the UK.