It's about time?  What a nasty, spiteful, bitter thing to come out with.  I wouldn't even come out and say that about Tony Blair, and he has FAR MORE BLOOD ON HIS HANDS THAN MARGARET THATCHER! X-( X-(.  Thatcher was a brittle stalk and had her faults, but my God, she put the GREATback into Great Britain.  She put Britain FIRST.  When she came back from America, all the press were gushing about how Ronald Reagan had told her we had the second greatest navy in the world.  They asked her how she felt?  She went mad.

"What does it feel like being told you're second best?  Drive on!" she barked to her chauffeur.  THAT was Thatcher to a T.  Broke the power of the unions single-handedly, and for the first time in decades made, home ownership a reality.  She also proved we were NOT a third-rate nation to be walked over by Argentina.  This had absolutely nothing to do with money - this was straight pride.  Of course people lost their lives - they do in any situation where there is armed conflict - INCLUDING TONY BLAIR'S "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION" FIASCO WHERE HE STEADFASTLY REFUSED TO LISTEN TO COMMON SENSE AND PUBLIC OPINION. 

For the record, in case you think I'm one of these haughty, upper-crust characters which so many people seem to typecast Conservatives, let me lay it to you straight.  I am very much a working class Tory, and proud of it!

When Blair kicks the bucket, I wonder whether people, both Labour and Conservative will be queuing up to say what a great man he was, standing there with a perpetual plastic smile on his face?