Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies

Ah no, we called her the Iron Lady. Can't believe she's gone. :'(

I will miss her, and my thoughts go out to her family in this dark time. The world lost a really great Lady.

Maggie was a bit of a curate's egg ("good in parts").

She was one hell of a shock to the system - the political classes and media had to get used to the big boss being female and not One Of Us by class or training.

She was an extremist by nature so she got a lot done (some of which she should not have done - eg she got us into the Falklands War by some ill-judged penny-pinching that persuaded the Argentinian Junta we wouldn't resist an invasion).

Her mistakes were big ones (eg Maggie thought there was no such thing as climate change or society) and other people paid and are paying a very heavy price for them. More positively, though, she made us face up to a lot of problems which had been hanging around for decades - eg over-manning at management level and elsewhere in commerce and industry. When she embarked on a political course, she was unusually resolute in seeing it through.

I was 17 and in the forces when she came to power. As soon as she got in number 10 she was as good as her word, everyone in the armed forces got a pay rise. The following year we had the Iranian embassy hostage saga, no nonsense and in with the SAS, six months or so later the Falklands. I think she did great and is definitely one of the greatest Prime Ministers this country has ever had. Ok she wasn't perfect, but then who is? She got people to buy their own homes, you could argue against this from a social housing point of view but it gave people the chance to better themselves, if you worked hard you got rewarded then, now it seems as though its the other way around. I don't believe for one minute that if she was at number 10now we would be having any of the current issues with Europe as we are now, in fact I think she would have called a referendum years ago, we certainly would not have a situation where the Eastern Europeans are working where the British people are not.
She also did a lot for women in employment and gave women something to aspire too, after all if a grocers daughter can become a Prime Minister then there is hope for everyone else. She also lead the way in ending the cold war so Russians and other communist state run countries also have a lot to be grateful to both her, Reagan and Gorbachev for. Because I remember watching countless news programmes where the Russians were queuing up a mile long just to buy a stale loaf of bread. She'll be missed and will go down in history as one of the greatest leaders of all time.... Whatever your political persuasions are she did this country proud...

I admired her, in my mind, she got the Country back on track. I liked her hard stance and resolution when it came to tough decisions.

She dragged the country from the over manned and state owned inefficient 1970's into prosperous 1980's.

I think she did more than anyone else ever has in destroying the class system, giving working people self worth, removing the tyranny of Left Wing Trade Unions. I genuinely believe the banking crisis never would have happened under her watch, and I suspect she would have let RBS fail.

She definitely got things wrong, Poll Tax has to be up there, and using Scotland as a Poll Tax guinea pig was always going to be a bad idea. The miners strike will be a controversial topic that still divides families to this day, and I can see the justification, inefficient money losing mines, but some of the tactics were a bit heavy handed.

The Tories at the time self destructed in the end, as seems to be the way with any party who stays in power too long, and I think the way she left was sad end to her career as PM.

But I think she will be remembered by the majority in a positive light, with maybe a Churchillian legend in the making.