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no, but Britons definitely benefited from the Thatcher administration, which is likely whey they kept her as long as they did.
Duration is no indicator of success. Do a survey and you'll find that the peacetime government most Brits deem to have been most successful was that of Clement Atlee that lasted just 5 years but which introduced the NHS, welfare state, comprehensive education to 16, dismantled the empire and reconstructed the nation after the war. Compare all that with what Thatcher achieved in 11 years and with the backing of the billions brought into the national purse by North Sea oil. She squandered that money, destroyed British manufacturing industry - something that even Conservatives today bemoan - and sold off the nation's infrastructure and utilities to her carpet-bagging friends in big business.
Now, what do you, from all the way over the other side of the world, think the British people benefitted from Thatcher? Were you even born when she came to power?
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