in Africa, ripped communities apart especially in the North through the destruction of manufacturing industries in the UK, squandered billions of pounds of North sea oil income when had we invested it, the UK would have been in a much better fiscal position and may have been able to ride out the GFC. Thats just domestic policy - Pinochet, De Klerk - close personal friends, supported Saddam, called Mandella a terrorist, torpedoed the Belgrano when it was outside the exclusion zone. And before anyone states she "won" the cold war, it was the more enlightened members of the soviet Communist party that dismantled Communism. I lived there - Grew up through it, saw shattered lives, disenfranchised communities, the start of the destruction of the welfare state and the common belief that we support the least fortunate. Not a place I enjoyed living. I don't celebrate her death but neither will I eulogise adn pretend these things didnt happen.I was incandescent with anger as to how she laid the long term foundations for all that is happening in the UK now, and destroyed the consensus politics that had worked ( although not perfectly) since the second world war. As a monetarist, interest rates were higher under her tenure than any government since WW2, she presided over the longest recession Britain had seen, bailed out her arms dealing son from a little bit of strife
I was incandescent with anger as to how she laid the long term foundations for all that is happening in the UK now, and destroyed the consensus politics that had worked ( although not perfectly) since the second world war. As a monetarist, interest rates were higher under her tenure than any government since WW2, she presided over the longest recession Britain had seen, bailed out her arms dealing son from a little bit of strife
