Lady Thatcher is dead

[Admiral Yi]

Case against: Permanently and delibrately ruined UK's industrial base to break unions power (talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater),

Is there any merit to this?  Were any profitable babies thrown out?

[citizen k]

Point against: in a case of budget cuts she more or less kicked psychiatric patients out of the institutions and onto the streets

Every politician from JFK to Reagan has done that.

[Josephus]

Point against: in a case of budget cuts she more or less kicked psychiatric patients out of the institutions and onto the streets

Every politician from JFK to Reagan has done that.

Two wrongs don't make a right...etc.etc.

[crazy canuck]

You know, when the real Thatcher dies, she's going to be remembered as the greatest Briton since Churchill.

Wrong.
If people  these days weren't so lazy and were perhaps a bit meaner there would be street parties at the news.

I agree.

Trouble is the only people who would throw a street party are under 35, and most Brits under 35 don't have a clue who she was....note I said "Most" not "all"

And if they did they would celebrate her for taking Briton out of the economic dark ages and making their current standard of living possible.

[Neil]

Point against: in a case of budget cuts she more or less kicked psychiatric patients out of the institutions and onto the streets

Every politician from JFK to Reagan has done that.

Two wrongs don't make a right...etc.etc.

Or, if everyone does it, it can't be wrong.

[Maximus]

Or, if everyone does it, it can't be wrong.

More likely, if everyone does it it can't be right.