RIP, Margaret Thatcher.
She broke every glass ceiling, destroyed the autocratic power of the trade unions, saved the British environment, introduced Libertarianism to Tory ideologies, boosted the economy by almost 25% during her time as Prime Minister, saw the British victory of the Falklands War, ended a recession - and was then stabbed in the back and forcibly ousted by her fellow Conservatives.
I honestly can't name a better British Prime Minister since Thatch; she had this incredible ability to get things done - and after almost a decade of Labour allowing the country to be held to ransom by unions and haemorrhaging money while taxing aggressively, Thatcher's mentality was a much-needed change. The country's market exploded, allowing Britain to become a truly competitive force in the then-expanding global trading environment - and under her time as leader, the British Pound grew ever-stronger, and inflation shrank by an incredible amount.
Of course, selfish former unionists will forever propagate the belief that she's the devil incarnate, but the country at large was a better-off, freer place after the union-run dictatorship's stranglehold over the UK's government was shattered - and the war between Thatcher's government and the self-appointed trade unions was a war between the majority-elected democracy and the narrow-minded, one-sided greed of the undeserving socialist minority.
So, here's to one of the most divisive, decisive and effective politicians of all time, whose influence we still see in economics, politics and the physical landscape of the United Kingdom to this very day: the original "Iron Lady", Margaret Thatcher.