What was your reaction to margaret thatcher's death?

I know I left (in terms of posting) but I wanted to come back temporarily to answer this because it's very important to me that something is said. Then I'll leave again.

I imagined the day many times. I thought there would be sweetness at the news, like there was sweetness at her resignation. But they were fresh then, the wounds she inflicted. Not just on the Argentinians, on the Irish, on the Scottish and Welsh, but on the English. She hacked away at us, at our jobs, at the prospects of those of us yet to enter the world of work, terrified at the void she created. It was so much worse for those in the middle of their careers, with skills discarded wholesale. She cut us off at the knees, with the utter conviction that out of the debris, order would be restored from the top downwards, that business would eventually thrive in a country where the poor have fewer rights, and that - eventually - the poor would be offered a chance to work again. If they were lucky. But not yet. Not until they had been thoroughly divested of those rights and brought back to where they deserved to be. Before her loathing of the political systems of other countries was clear (and which she later also proudly destroyed) she practiced her contempt on us, those of us who dared to believe we were born equal. She famously did not believe in society. She did not believe in the weakness of caring. She believed in force. If it was her will, people were forced to accept it. Regardless of anything. She wasn't the Iron Lady. She was Stone.

Within just two minutes of the news becoming public, a friend let me know. I was at work. I told my colleagues. There was no sadness. Within a moment, there was even some levity. In the past two days, parties have broken out across the country. Not wakes, not expressions of remembrance or remorse, but parties. Happy events. A national newspaper had to remove their webpage of condolence because it immediately overflowed with the voices of the previously voiceless, and they had a few words they wanted to say about her. Condolences they were not. Years ago, I had plans. A trip down to London on the day of the funeral, a skinful of ale, and a defiant glare at her coffin going by. Flanked by my mates. People older than me who suffered more. And people younger whose parents have never forgotten and who warned their children lest this be allowed to happen again, this retrograde step into the political topography of a previous century.

The wait for her death has been long and bitter and it has eroded me. I punched the air when she resigned. I thought it was finally over. It wasn't. Politics in Britain remains unbalanced to this day, the needle slammed ever rightward and all three parties clustered at one end of the scale, the void at the other end similar to the devastation she caused in those who fell foul of her, left to rot due only to the city of their birth. It didn't stop when she went. The Thatcher machine rumbled on without her. It rumbled throughout the reign of her political "opposite", the truly Thatcherite Tony Blair. It is the dais from which David Cameron spouts the rhetoric of one who understands little outside his Bullingdon Club oikery, football hooligans allowed to get away with it because it's not football, it's fine dining. Because they are not the working classes, they are the ruling classes.

I was pissed off because there were some decent programmes on the BBC I wanted to watch that night but they got waylaid in favour of hours and hours of Thatcher tributes. Also because Ed Miliband was going to come to my town today and it would have been cool to meet him, but he canceled because of the whole Thatcher thing.

I really dislike like her as a politician, but I have to admit to no knowing a vast amount about her.

Sad when someone dies: mother/grandmother and all that.

The stuff in the British press has been very polarised. Love or hate her, there seems to be no middle ground.

My opinion of her is not important. I am however bothered by the apparent 'street parties' celebrating her demise, as well as things like the Osborne 'tweet'. Let's just get the funeral over with first, please.

I had no idea who the heck she was to even give a shit.

That piece of shit is where she belongs.

I felt relatively indifferent about her death considering I was born during the New Labour era and although she did some very... controversial things there is no denying (in my mind anyhow) she did some good things too- privatisation being one of them.

Who? Imma Google it... Brb

Well I never liked her in life so I am certainly not about to start liking her in death!. However I would never be disrespectful and celebrate her death. She is after all someone's mum and grandma. It would kill me the thought of someone celebrating the death of my mum, when her time comes.
Also correct me if I am wrong, But I did not see or here of any celebrations when Myra Hindley died. Was she not a far far more evil women than Margaret Thatcher. I mean I'd have gladly joined in those celebrations.
Probably going off topic now, but same horse different colour I suppose. In my opinion I would say David Cameron is worse that Margaret Thatcher, taking benefits off the sick, poor and disabled. who are already struggling. This government should be ashamed of themselves. But someone voted them it though and I can tell you it most certainly wasn't me. xx

Nothing.. Never knew anything about her nor her name before she died.

She was like Schrödinger's cat. There's a bunch of people that I wasn't 100% sure if they're alive or dead, she was one of them. When I heard she had died, I was like...well, now I know.

My reaction was, "oh, hmm... I guess that happened today."

I do not care I hated her It was horrible that some of listings on the tv where changed just to show tributes to her there was not this much tv programme's about binladen when that cunt died so why was there lots about the Witch, I believe everyone has the right to celebrate with street parties if they wish thatcher was hated you can not gloss over it, but the tv making her seem like a Angel is just stupid, i don't mourn her and there is lots more who do the same,

I Liked her. I have a phobia of mines anyway

''Eh, whatever.''

At first I thought that it was the actress that had died then I understood. I don't know her so I would say nothing.