Margaret Thatcher

[Cleita]

3. She wasn't elected. Parliamentary system is different than ours.

She was able to convince her party to make her PM by saying the right words and the ability to form coalitions with other parties that kept her in power until her own peers decided she was too extreme. Then they booted her out. In the meantime she had tremendous power to make decisions that were very detrimental not only to her own citizens but other countries as well. As someone said today, she made a point of giving comfort to the comfortable, who were the only people she was interested in governing for. Anyone else who needed decent policies to survive were nothing but scum to her and she let them know it in often very cruel and heartless ways.