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{{quote|''Over the years I've got very used to being asked in interviews about ''Why Sandman Wasn't Political''. Normally journalists would point out how very filled with politics all the other British writers of the school of eighty-something were, and that Sandman wasn't. And why is that? And I would hesitantly suggest that I thought that Sandman might have been a bit more political than they thought, and they would say no, it definitely wasn't; where was Margaret Thatcher, after all, and why hadn't I shown her eating babies with her vampire teeth?''|'''[[Neil Gaiman]]'''}}▼
British Prime Minister (and the
▲{{quote|Over the years I've got very used to being asked in interviews about ''Why Sandman Wasn't Political''. Normally journalists would point out how very filled with politics all the other British writers of the school of eighty-something were, and that Sandman wasn't. And why is that? And I would hesitantly suggest that I thought that Sandman might have been a bit more political than they thought, and they would say no, it definitely wasn't; where was Margaret Thatcher, after all, and why hadn't I shown her eating babies with her vampire teeth?|'''[[Neil Gaiman]]'''}}
▲British Prime Minister (and the only woman to hold that position) for 11 years, [[Margaret Thatcher]] is the most divisive figure in recent British political history. Her administration featured controversial economic policies, high unemployment, the Miners' Strike, [[The Falklands War]], a significant disembowelment of the Trade Union movement, the sidelining of Britain's heavy industry sector, and privatisation of public assets. As you can imagine, she's ''very'' divisive.
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== Fan Works ==
* The ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' doujinshii ''From the New Earth, with Love'' has [[Hot Scientist|a young and Moe-looking Margaret Thatcher]] as {{spoiler|one of the caretakers of England, who survived his duel to death with America parallel to [[World War Two]]... only to fall in a coma due to his injuries.}} She chats with America over some soft ice cream, and he asks her to step forward into politics; some pages later, her older self is featured as already Prime Minister. {{spoiler|As Thatcher becomes a full-fledged leader, England finally recovers from his coma.}}
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== Theatre ==
* There is an ironic parody of the miner's strike at https://web.archive.org/web/20190630181032/http://www.milksnatcher.com/, and the lady's not for burning at http://www.maggiethatcher.com/games.html.
* The opening of the second act of ''[[Billy Elliot]]'' is a song called 'Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher', an upbeat tune with lyrics celebrating that Christmas is "one day closer to [her] death." Not to mention that poor government policy is the whole reason the town's miners are on strike.
* Even [[Monty Python|the Dead Parrot Sketch]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTV3lQc4AmQ wasn't immune to Thatcher].
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'':
** She's referenced during a cutscene in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''. While CJ is talking to Mike Toreno, [[Funny Background Event|in the background]] we see that Kent Paul has locked Maccer in a recording studio, refusing to let him out until he gets over his addiction to [[A Date with Rosie Palms|masturbation]]. As a suggestion, Kent tells him to think of Thatcher. Doesn't work.
** During an [[GTA Radio|radio interview]] in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', the [[Straw Feminist]] character mistakenly names Thatcher alongside Reagan and Gorbachev while ranting about how everything was being run by men.
* The ZX Spectrum game ''Monty on the Run'' was based on the infamous Miners' Strike against Thatcher's policies that lead to the destruction of several British industries. In the game, Monty is imprisoned by Thatcher's police for his involvement in the strike and must escape to the docks to flee to Spain.
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