Baroness Thatcher has died.

[Rollo]

Margaret Thatcher dies: Politics blog | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Baroness Thatcher died this morning following a stroke, her spokesman Lord Bell said.
Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.
"A further statement will be made later."

[Malbec]

Mrs Thatcher died this morning.

I'm of an age where I don't actually have memories of a prime minister before her, when she left Downing Street I thought the world might end

For me she represented a great politician and one who took the UK dragging and screaming from a country somewhere to the left of East Germany and made it into a capitalist economy. She made plenty of mistakes too of course and didn't do enough to redress the excesses of her attempts to de-nationalise state industries and break the iron grip of the trade unions.

Whatever your opinions of her I think we can all agree that she was possibly the most influential single British PM. RIP.

[Mintexmemory]

Mrs Thatcher died this morning.

Whatever your opinions of her I think we can all agree that she was possibly the most influential single British PM. RIP.

No actually we can't - I am of an age where I can remember PMs before Thatcher. She presided over major economic mis-management which left many uk citizens with negative equity and sky-high interest rates. Her legacy was to leave a poison chalice to her successor and to pave the way for the atrocity that was Tony Blair. Any close examination of her regime reveals more hype than substance.

I'd put Pitt, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Churchill, Atlee all ahead of her in lasting influence any day, maybe even Macmillan and Wilson

[henners88]

I know her politics divide most people who were alive when she was PM, but there really is some vile things being written about her on the internet this afternoon. It takes things like this to expose some of the scum we have in this country. I didn't agree with much of what she did, but I take no satisfaction in her death. I'm a better person than that.

[Storm]

At the time that I got to the age when I could understand the concept of a PM/govt she was there along with our very own iron lady - Indira Gandhi. Two very controvertial but tough ladies who led their nations in times of strife.

[Mark]

Ding dong. The witch is dead.

[Ranger]

Ding dong. The witch is dead.

No one is saying you have to weep at the news, but that's not a very nice thing to say when someone has died.

RIP.

[Mark]

No one is saying you have to weep at the news, but that's not a very nice thing to say when someone has died.

RIP.

If someone is alive or dead should be irrelevant as to the views you express about them.

[Starter]

If someone is alive or dead should be irrelevant as to the views you express about them.

She was an appropriate leader for her time, but times change and attitudes change with them.

[Mark]

She was an appropriate leader for her time, but times change and attitudes change with them.

If anything attitudes to Thatcher have softened over the years. Her dying today is a matter if historical note; her dying in the late 80's or early 90's would have been the cause of street parties in many places, such was the divisiveness of her rule.