Not only the worst British prime minister in modern history, but possibly the most ignorant and malevolent. She inherited an economic upturn—the end of the oil and energy crisis. Despite this, she managed to raise unemployment to the highest levels since the depression, and to alleviate this embarrassing statistic, her government repeatedly changed the way unemployment was counted to continually reduce the number.
She left whole swaths of the country in terminal poverty, which is still all too evident today. She destroyed British industry and manufacturing. She destroyed all semblance of democracy by effectively privatising the government, with corporate lobbyists and donors able to dictate policy making. She sold off all the public utilities and North Sea Gas for a fraction of its real value to private investors, who to this day run them as regional monopolies—terrible service and terrible value.
I could write pages about what a loathsome callous woman she was. The only thing great about her was the class war she conducted on behalf of the rich and privileged. The idiots who laud her achievements are the ones too obtuse or callous to understand or relate to the harm she inflicted on millions of British people.
Her corpse should be paraded from street to street in all the towns and cities she destroyed so that everyone can take turns to spit on it. It would be cathartic.