Its all academic at the end of the day; Thatcher is elderly and not in good health. Whether I wish her days were over or not is not really that relevant to the situation and won't make a difference either way. You are probably however underestimating the strength of personal feeling against her amongst many section of the population, here in the UK, in Ireland and in other parts of the world.

Can I respectfully remind people about her comment about how it was good for the elderly to be ' a little bit cold' and many other gems of wisdom ( not) which came out of her mouth. Like a lot of people with elderly relatives who found it hard to make ends meet, whilst the rich had tax break, I found this patronising and unacceptable. This is what is shameful!

No other Prime Minister has been summoned to Buckingham Palace to discuss civil unrest caused by Tory policies. The Church of England spoke out against her divisive me me me policies very strongly. Her attack on the miners was vicious and spiteful, not a policy decision, but came out of her wanting to show who was boss. The inevitable could have happened a lot less painlessly than it did. She probably set Anglo Irish relation back decades resulting in many more deaths than should have happened. She was kicked out of office by a Tory party who felt that her views had done enough damage to the country and to the Party.Let take off our rose tinted glasses here and see her for what she was. I'd like to see someone defend her war crime when she ordered the Belgrano to be destroyed when it was actually sailing away from the Malvinas, and tell me that doesn;t
qualify as murder? Its amazing she hasn't been tried. I'd certainly have wanted Blair to be.

When she does leave her mortal coil there will be doubtless many obiturial assessments of her legacy to the country and to politics. The forthcoming movie might be interesting. I hear Carol Thatcher has objected to it which might boost ratings.