I know next to nothing about UK history but there was a zero punctuation review video where he described the dystropic setting of a videogame and followed it up with the punchline "yes, life was hard in Thatcher's Britan" so I have the general impression that she was a bit of a twat
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She was The UK's version of Reagan
Except while Americans generally look back fondly on Reagan, Brits hate Thatcher.
There's gotta be some stupid Brits who like her though, right? It's only idiots who like Reagan over here, we're just long on idiots.
I have no idea what that woman actually did in her life. I'm just want to be part of the crew causing temporal chaos
Heavily harmed British public services, helped enable the genocide in Cambodia, helped crush the power of unions, has allegedly supported death-squads fighting against Irish reunification to name a few
As an American I’ve found that saying she was the UKs Reagan and Nixon mixed together helps my fellow inmates. A truly awful human
Yeah you might THINK you want that but then, have you really stopped, and THOUGHT about who will then snatch the milk from all the children?
So ungrateful.
Unfortunately there is actually only one timeline and they were orginally planning on using just a firecracker. The small bomb they upgrade to turns out to the be the one that you were saying was too small all along!