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Why is Margaret Thatcher hated by some left wing Brits?

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To take some common views: ''She defeated the unions''. At the very least, that was not popular (to address your question) and many people would argue it was not necessary or in the long term good of UK. read more

She also won a lot of popularity for the Falklands War, which demonstrated that Britain was still just under the US on the NATO totem pole, but was seen by the left as a backwards display of British imperialism. read more

Between men who hated themselves for responding to Thatcher’s stern, dominatrix-like scolding (watch “You turn if you want to; the lady’s not for turning” and tell me you don’t get chills) and women who wondered why our breakthrough female politician had to be a woman like her (though we surely knew that only an Iron Lady could have smashed the mold of British politics), the fact that Thatcher was female complicated things. read more