Ah, so she's of the "punishing poor people for being poor will stop poverty"-brand?
Yes, exactly. That's it. Hence why she was demonised to the Nth degree by our left as some kind of female Hitler (along with her strong, uncompromising positions on Unions and nationalised industries etc), but the fact that she was stuck up and from the home counties made it worse.
It's not as if she was born upper class, though. She came from a fairly humble background, her father was a grocer, but he was very much a "self made man". Hence why Alex Massie was arguing that Thatcher's goal was actually to make Britain in the image of her father - god fearing, self sufficient, independent, morally conscious/proper etc. I've had relatives like that in the past, the majority of them were old school Tories. She also developed that god awful drone of an accent deliberately through speech therapy to remove her old, native rural Lincolnshire tones.
You could say that Mrs. Thatcher represented the South-East of England's answer to Britain's class problem. Until Mrs. Thatcher came along we still had quite a strong, clearly defined class system - a working class, middle class, upper class, aristocracy etc. Mrs. Thatcher proved that you could rise up from your humble beginnings with a British stiff upper lip and so on and join the wealthy. Mrs. Thatcher certainly died an aristocrat, a Baroness fading away in the same hotel that caters to the Royal family. The North's answer was altogether different though and the wild differences in our approaches sharply divided the country, arguably laying the foundations for the independence movement I am so dedicated to now. Where the South-East showed a way for people to join the upper classes in practically every way, even speech, the North spoke for the working class communities and arguably saw merit in retaining that culture through leftism. Perhaps the Northerners believed in "workers", not necessarily the modern Tory idea of "working people".
I've often wondered if Mrs. Thatcher really did change the class system. By the end of her tenure and the turn of the century you could argue that there is no working class anymore. Most of our heavy industry is dead, cut loose by the Iron Lady herself in the '80s because she felt it was no longer profitable, but the careless fashion in which she did it destroyed communities and ultimately destroyed the working class. How can they be working class if they don't "work"? Not in the same way my family did. Nowadays it's as if such people are just people who never "made it" and joined the middle class with good jobs.
But it's not as if the class system is gone. They may not be a working class, but they're still a class. They're an underclass, and in some ways that may be more damaging to our societies than the old system ever was.
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