I mean, if you’re going to hold her single-handedly responsible for the 1982 recession and focus on nothing else in her 11 years as PM then sure. They bounced back though and The Crown kind of glosses over that part and only focuses on the bad. She was one of the longest reigning PMs in recent history and won re-election in landslide victories in both 1983 and 1987.
When she took over Britain was in a bad way. They were a global power when she left office. And given her distaste for the EU and the Brexit mess they’re currently dealing with… it might have been cleaner if they’d followed her lead and never joined.
I think The Crown was pretty unfair to her policies. And her demeanor was pretty abrasive, I believe, but Gillian Anderson’s caricature-like performance was downright cringeworthy. I would not like to be her chiropractor… I can’t imagine what damage she must have done to her neck in order to so badly portray Thatcher.