The death of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has reminded us in no uncertain terms how she polarised opinion. UK citizens either loved her or loathed her!! There was simply no middle ground.

For the former group, Margaret Thatcher put the “Great” back into Britain, gave us our global self respect back, by turning around the UK economy and making the country economically competitive and a major force in the world, after it’s seemingly terminal decline in the 1970s.

For the latter group, Margaret Thatcher made the rich richer and the poor poorer by annihilating the traditional manufacturing base in the UK and destroying urban communities, in particular the steel, shipbuilding and coalmining industries. For many Margaret Thatcher was despised and hated with a passion. No Prime Minister before or since has divided opinion in the same way.

Margaret Thatcher was omnisicient in 1980s Great Britain and as a result became entwined in the fabric of UK culture in that decade. Her perceived brutality was matched and mirrored by anti Thatcher comedy and music!! Margaret Thatcher became the subject matter of savage, vitriolic satire by comedians like Ben Elton and Alexi Sayle and lampooned by TV puppet show “Spitting Image”. The world of 1980s music was no different with artists like Elvis Costello, Paul Weller, Billy Bragg and Morrissey queuing up to write poison pen letters to Margaret Thatcher in the form of protest songs……. Lest we forget, here is the Recordpress Top 10 Best Anti Maggie Thatcher Protest Songs from the 1980s –

Top 10 Best Anti Maggie Thatcher Protest Songs

1) Specials – Ghost Town

2) UB40 – One in Ten

3) Elvis Costello – Oliver’s Army

4) Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding

5) Style Council – Walls Come Tumbling Down

6) The Jam – A Town Called Malice

7) Specials – Maggie’s Farm

8) Morrissey – Margaret On The Guillotine

9) UB40 – Madame Medusa

10) Style Council – Money Go Round

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