# What if Thatcher was still the Iron Lady?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 28, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-thatcher-was-still-the-iron-lady/491061 "2009-03-28T03:14:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-thatcher-was-still-the-iron-lady/491061/21 "2009-03-29T02:46:56Z")

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I don’t know that you can objectively measure such things as how “vehemently disliked” a prime minister was. Earlier PMs have the advantage of not having lived in a media age. A lot of the vitriol directed at Thatcher was just because people knew it was safe to target her. Call it the Ben Elton effect. A caricature of a PM becomes established, and people just copy it. Thatcher: evil dominatrix. Major: grey, anal retentive. Blair: insincere spin merchant. But they’re just caricatures, and tell you little about the real person.

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**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-thatcher-was-still-the-iron-lady/491061/22 "2009-03-29T04:16:01Z")

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Well then the UK would be headed by a woman in her 80s with dementia.

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