[joeysteele]

The one thing I'd give Thatcher and she was PM before I was born.
Is I cannot find her in any way setting out to discriminate against or humiliate the sick, and disabled, the way the last 3 PMs have over the last 10 years.

The other thing about her is, she threw out the vote in 1979 which was a narrow vote for devolution in Scotland.

She apparently despised referenda and felt they were a failure of government.
However she refused to implement that devolution referendum result.

So she had more conviction, right or wrong than the last 3 wastes of political space who have been Prime Minister of the UK.
She'd never have carried out a 3.8% vote to leave the EU, then again she'd never have held the referendum.

Back to statues, I just personally see no need for them.
The initial costs of them obscene at times, then added likely costs of the unveiling.

Just set up a fund related to them for people to remember them by and use funds to help others.
Not leave what I'd term as often eyesores, for birds to mess on, councils to have to clean.

In this day and age, there's many ways to project an individual after they've died without shoving them in public areas.

Put whatever, where those bothered about any person immortalised this way, in a private setting where those who wish to, go and see it.
Not push it into everyone's faces in public.

This woman was fiercely divisive, there's those who think she was great and those with deep, very deep hate for her setting people and groups of workers against other workers.

For me, looking back, overall I would have hated her privatisation programme of essential services such as Gas, Electricity and Water.

I think all that did was allow competition to just endlessly raise prices.
With service suffering too.

She also used Scotland as a dumping ground for her extreme policies too.

So had I been born and of voting age, I would have voted for her in 1979 but maybe not by the time we got to 1987.

No though,no support for a statue of her from me..we need more unifying symbols across the UK, not more deliberately divisive ones.