To wonder what Margaret Thatcher was like irl?

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Just watched ‘the Iron Lady’. Find her oddly fascinating. Did anyone meet her and what was she like??

Hard faced, cold yet flirtatious on a personal level. She was one of a kind as a female leader, there have been many male reckless leaders.
I think she had a set of balls, not by being tough actual testicles.

Sorry bit drunk,didn't read OP properly. I haven't meet her, knew who she was at a very young age.

I met her. I was a small child though. She came across as very cold and I didn't get the impression she liked children much. She was our local MP but not prime minister yet. My parents were staunch labour supporters and working class so I don't suppose we were her target audience.

I visited the house of commons in 1986 and saw her demolish Neil Kinnock in prime minister's question time. She came across as having enormous charisma, whatever you thought of her politics.

I knew someone who worked for her. Said she was perfectly pleasant but was bad with names so called most people dear.

A complete cunt, I should imagine...

Probably a right cowbag.

Never met her, but read about her in others' autobiographies. Apparently, although she could never be described as beautiful, she was sexy. All the men drooled over her and she used this to wrap them around her little finger.

She was an amazing strong woman to me.

Judging by the way her children were brought up - one Golden Boy and one, well, not (and I have no actual liking for Carol Thatcher, but her behaviour and responses to many things, including her body language, make this entirely believable) - and the way people who were weaker were treated by her government, to the extent of changing the narrative from 'people need help' to 'these people are bad for needing help/weakness is a moral failing', I'd say she was a Narcissistic Sociopath.

Devoid of a sense of humour according to most people. She could be kind and wasn't a raging snob in the way most of her ghastly peers in the party were back when she emerged as leader.
She didn't radiate warmth. She wasn't cynical, she genuinely believed in what she did.
I never met her but know several people who knew her professionally.
She was a very unusual woman, particularly in the context of the time.

A hard faced arrogant cunt I'd imagine. She was very close to Saville too. He stayed with her for Christmas etc many times. Blood chilling.

I met her a few times and know people who knew her well.

She cared about people she worked with and liked looking after them, especially feeding them, but she also expected them to have the same stamina as her.

She enjoyed an intellectual argument and had little patience with people who couldn’t keep up. She respected disagreement on a philosophical level but would enjoy demolishing an opponent’s view point.

A human-spirit breaking, community-obliterating fucking cunt.

Jesus!! Christmas with Thatcher and Seville 😱😱😱 kill me now!

Saville, darn auto correct..

Best buddies with a Jimmy Saville, which says it all really

My DM, most certainly not in any way a Tory sympathiser or Thatcher fan, met her irl. She said she was charm personified and focused on the person she was talking to with apparently genuine interest.

Her politics was vile, but I actually enjoyed this tv drama of her early rise in politics - can't have been easy for a woman at that time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk_to_Finchley