Whatever else may be true of her, Thatcher engaged in incredibly consequential acts that affected millions of people around the world. She played a key role not only in bringing about the first Gulf War but also using her influence to publicly advocate for the 2003 attack on Iraq. She denounced Nelson Mandela and his ANC as "terrorists", something even David Cameron ultimately admitted was wrong. She was a steadfast friend to brutal tyrants such as Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein and Indonesian dictator General Suharto ("One of our very best and most valuable friends"). And as my Guardian colleague Seumas Milne detailed last year, "across Britain Thatcher is still hated for the damage she inflicted – and for her political legacy of rampant inequality and greed, privatisation and social breakdown."
Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette
I do not celebrate her death because I do not care if she is alive or dead. I grieve all of the harm, crueltly and starvation she inflicted on her own country because of her tory politics and greed.
I personally know people who are scarred from their families suffering in poverty in their youth because of her. Neglectful, cruel, greedy leader with no concern and launguishing in her own comfort.
NEVER FORGET.
Her and Regan should be put in a glass box, arms around each other to rot in public and a list of all their human rights crimes listed underneath.