Margaret Thatcher - More Hated Than Brown. Apparently.

This is a humdinger of a comment (in response to another comment making the crazy assertion that Gordon Brown is the most hated Prime Minister in history):

How fast the memory fades. Margaret Thatcher was most definitely far more unpopular (and deservedly so) than Gordon Brown.

- Peace Maker, Battersea

Ah, that would be the Margaret Thatcher who fought for and won the leadership of her party, before winning a General Election in 1979. She then won landslides in 1983 and 1987, before being forced out as leader of her party before she got too unpopular to allow them to win the election in 1992. Evidently "Peace Maker" of Battersea also has a fading memory. They've forgotten that before Thatcher was unpopular enough to be replaced by her party (back when politicians had the backbone to replace electoral liabilities) she was actually a very impressive, successful populist and election winner. Regardless of what you think about her policies, it is a matter of historical record that every General Election fought in over ten years was won by Margaret Thatcher. In terms of General Elections, she fought three, won three.

Unlike Gordon Brown, whose record is fought none, likely to lose one. Badly.