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ELI5: Why the British resent Margaret Thatcher. 

I've heard that many people blame Thatcher for some of the problems the country has today but what did she do? As an American, all I know is that she did something to take away serving milk in schools so people called her "Milk Snatcher Thatcher."
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In the 1980's the British economy was struggling. To get the country out of the mess it was in, she decided to deregulate the banks, sell government owned companies, and get rid of "out-dated" forms of industry, and manufacturing eg: coal mining.

This made a lot of people, mainly public sector workers and "blue collar" workers, lose their jobs. The coal miners especially were upset and striked for a long time, however this didn't do any good and in the end they still lost their jobs and livelihoods. This also decimated towns that were built near the mines, turning them into ghost towns filled with unemployed.

It also ushered in the era of the UK being a finance based economy, as opposed to manufacturing, which although made some people very rich in the short term did not provide a long term solution to the UK's problems. It can be argued that the current problems in the UK economy are directly due to the changes she instigated, and which the following prime ministers didn't, and couldn't/wouldn't change.

So that in a nutshell is why a lot of people really hate her.


EDIT: Took out inaccurate info about Falklands war.