Margaret Thatcher named worst prime minister of the century

Admirers quote her a lot and usually they talk nonsense and the quotes do not make a better impression.

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The Historical Writers’ Association on Tuesday announced the results of a 45-member survey naming Margaret Thatcher the U.K.’s worst prime minister of the past century, narrowly beating Brexit harbinger David Cameron.
The England based literary society judged 19 prime ministers who have held the top job since 1916. Thatcher, who served from 1979 to 1990 netted 24 percent of the vote, tailed by Cameron and Neville Chamberlain who earned 22 percent and 17 percent, respectively.
A litany of historical authors weighed in on the Iron Lady, whom D.E. Meredith panned for a notorious “lack of compassion” due to Thatcher’s infamous line: “There’s no such thing as society,” while Lord Paddy Ashdown praised her as “a great and necessary destroyer.”
“Thatcher made the idea of society, in the sense of a community that cares for all its members and accepts the premise that people need support and should not be stigmatized for it, an anathema,” wrote author Catherine Hokin, adding that Britain was “still reaping her poisoned harvest.”
Former chair of the Historical Writers Association, Manda Scott, listed “neoliberalism, de-industrialization, free-market ideology, Scottish poll tax, selling council houses and failing to act on early stages of global warming,” as reasons for choosing the Baroness, who died in 2013.
The deliverer of Brexit was not spared the writers’ wrath either, “He gambled with the country’s future prosperity and lost,” wrote author Angus Donald. “Then ran from the battlefield leaving the rest of us to pick up the pieces.”