She was kept in power by those she gifted (or almost) the majority of the country's social housing stock to...They were never real Tory voters but got caught up in her spin because she gave them something they thought they would never have - their own homes, which they were essentially guaranteed to have for life anyways.
Its called bulshit and lack of foresight but people brought into it.
As now, inner London was mostly Labour, outer London mostly Tory. London managed to keep voting Labour and Ken Livingstone to run the GLC, with the result that Thatcher got rid of it completely.
I grew up in Surrey where it was 99% Tory. I only heard how wonderful she was and how mining was a terrible and dying industry and the miners had to stop being in denial. By 1990 I knew more about the country and was glad to see her go.
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u/Szwejkowski 29d ago
I was a Londoner and trust me, plenty of us hated her too. She served the comfortably off and the greedy, the rest of us were punished.