I've been reading V for Vendetta, which, if any of you don't know, is a graphic novel that was published during the 80's. Its main character is an Anarchist and embodies the ideals that the writer, Alan Moore, believed in who is up against this fascist and controlling government (It's like 1984). What I find confusing is why would Alan Moore connect Margaret Thatcher with fascism if Thatcherism was all about conservative values and small government? I'm trying to connect the dots here. He wrote the graphic novel while it was occurring, and given that it before my birth as well as in a different country (I'm American), I can't really pinpoint the parallels that he's trying to make.
I guess a broader question is what were the criticisms for Margaret Thatcher during here time? Were there an overwhelming amount of people who just went with Thatcher, allowing her to do whatever she wanted (this is something that occurs in V for Vendetta). I'm fairly certain from the research I've done that LGBT rights didn't exist under Thatcher as well as there being controversy over immigration, and these are also two issues in V for Vendetta as well.
I guess I'm just not seeing how a Conservative could inspire fascist parallels?
The short answer to your question is that Moore's graphic novel is a wild exaggeration of Thatcher's rule - the parallels to Thatcher's time in power are quite weak. Britain did not become significantly more authoritarian during her time, nor did it engage in eugenics, for example.
However, I can give you some reasons as to why Thatcher is thoroughly despised by a lot of people in the UK, and why these comparisons might seem reasonable to them. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Britain was in many ways a socialist economy. The economy was centrally planned, key enterprises were owned by the state and unions were far more dominant than they are today.
Thatcher sold off many state enterprises and allowed those that were unprofitable (in particular the long moribund British steel and coal industries) to collapse. While few today would argue that this didn't make sense from a coldly economic point of view, Thatcher and her government were seen to have done little to help those whose livelihoods were destroyed by her reforms. The famous quote that defined this supposed attitude came from Norman Tebbit, who when asked what he would say to the thousands of people his government had made unemployed replied "get on your bike" [and look for a job].
Moore's novel might seem an extreme response to basic free market economics, but it's hard to understate how dark a time the 1980s were for many people in the UK. Whole communities, especially in the North and Wales, that had depended on particular industries or even single factories were tipped into unemployment in the space of a few years. Strikes and protests followed, and in some cases became violent - in particular the [Miner's Strike](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners'strike(1984–85).
So, in short, Thatcher was and is hated mainly for her economic policies and arguably callous attitude towards their impact, and some British people have portrayed her time in power in extreme ways.