Was Margaret Thatcher really a good Prime Minister for England as the media made her out to be?

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She was "of her time". The UK had got a bit soft and lazy, (as a country perhaps, rather more than her people). After years of appeasement to (some would say, deliberately) destructive organised labour, someone, Maggie, stood up to them. I am of the "soft left", I hated Maggie, but what she did was necessary at the time.  She stopped, at a stroke, hijackings of UK planes, by making it clear that no planes that were hijacked would ever be allowed to enter UK airspace and leave again. 

Most importantly, for most of the Western world - She went to war to defend a small British colony in the South Atlantic. Just in case anyone thought we were a "soft touch" - they didn't think that afterwards. The world became a safer place. I still didn't like her - but she was necessary. Did any of that make sense?

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Very much so! I knew you would give a great answer. Not living there, most of us only heard the stupid media hype. Thank you!
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