Ding Dong The witch is dead; hubble bubble toil and trouble; The Passing of a Great One; Which will it be

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4620464.html

"The masses are divided. In one camp, it's a postmodern Wizard of Oz redux - "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" and "olay, olay, olay" soccer strains are sound-tracking booze-fuelled festivities and relief tweets.
The other camp is playing it sombre. Genteel. They're playing the like-her-or-loathe-her-the-dead-deserve-respect card. That the dead deserve not to have their proverbial graves tap-danced upon. That now, apparently, isn't the time to ask too many questions."

I've been following the reaction to the death of Maggie Mae. A lively discussion is taking place on 'The Conversation. Someone asked the question of whether her domestic policies, ie Thatcherism, changed Britain. I just couldn't let that one go.

If results and consequences are any indication the answer is yes, in a bad way. Thatcherism, with its denial of the concept of society and its Geckoesque individualism and greed played a large role in precipitating the GFC. It continues to thrive as a major plank in the platform of the British Conservative Party. Its blind application in the wake of the crisis, focusing on Hayekian austerity has left Britain staring down the barrel of a triple dip recession, a generation of unemployed people. 

Judging from the above observable facts, her effect was pronounced, profound, far-reaching, polarisingly divisive, and above all deeply negative for all but the social ruling elite which she represented.

Tony Blair was quoted condemning the 'ding dong the witch is dead' street parties springing up everywhere celebrating her death. Show some respect for the dead spake Blair. My initial response was to agree with him. Stripping the better progressive instincts from the forefront of my being I valiantly tried to keep an open mind. After all the record does indeed show that she was elected by at least a clear majority of British society as Prime Minister for three consecutive five-year terms, the implication being that a clear majority approved of her policies. Then reality set in. Looking with an objective eye on the Britain of the seventies and today's Britain, one can easily come to the view that every difference, socially, economically or politically has a negative vector attached. Britain today is a worse place than it was.