...Fuck Margaret Thatcher...

I only had a distant idea of what she was about.

The movie is interesting though in that she is presented as she is today, a doddering, feeble minded old lady who has hallucinations about her past.

The hallucinations become the story and they keep bringing you back to the present where she has no control over her life at all.

How was it? I'll definitely see the film for Streep's acting.

horrible woman, in my opinion.

She comes off as an extreme conservative who places political values above human values.

You do get the feeling that she genuinely believes she is doing what is right and you admire her determination to push it through but she comes off as rather uncaring and driven.

And this is contrasted with her living as a helpless shell of a person today.

...many, many, MANY people hate that fucking woman...

the particular reasons she was hated?

Did she try and destroy unions?

..she also succeeded in destroying the coal mining industry and the British car industry (although to be fair most British cars at the time were fucking dreadful to begin with). She "privatised" (i.e. sold to the highest bidder) formerly nationalized industries, started a war against students, minorities and the poor...other than that she was a peach...

Are there really no unions in the UK anymore?.

I know that she and Reagan were tight, but I don't think even he was this

bad (or we might say as "successful&quot in his aims.

Terrible stuff...Sounds like what our fascist right wing is trying to do to us now.

...but the ones she went after, specifically coal miners and auto workers are shadows of their former selves...

Meryl Streep is great, movie not so

reminds me they should have used Elvis Costello's legendary song "Tramp the dirt down" as the end theme.

people should go to youtube and listen to the words of that song about Margaret.