I'm not going to get into the pissing contest about whether Thatcher should be respected in death, or whether a few hundred dog on a shoe string commies represent 'the left' in Britian. I will however post what I consider to be some of the most erudite thoughts on Thatcher's approach, ironically from a Conservative...admittedly in the traditional 'one nation', rather than neo-libertarian mould:
"It breaks my heart to see (I can't interfere or do anything at my age) what is happening in our country today - this terrible strike of the best men in the world, who beat the Kaiser's army and beat Hitler's army, and never gave in. Pointless, endless. We can't afford that kind of thing. And then this growing division which the noble Lord who has just spoken mentioned, of a comparatively prosperous south, and an ailing north and midlands. That can't go on."
- Harold MacMillan