Well it certainly started the latest long slide for England.
Thatcher will be remembered. The greats always are. Her replacement John Major is already forgotten.
She made the mistake of running for a third term. No one in an executive position should serve more than two terms. I can recite a long list of successful two termers who failed in their third term- Stephen Harper, Mario Cuomo, Ed Koch, Tony Blair, Thatcher, the list is long. If you can’t get it done in two terms you won’t get it done in the third. You’ll just have restless, ambitious people who want you out and a populace that is tired of you.
She was respected even by her enemies, except for her homegrown detractors.