The ringleader who helped organise wild street parties celebrating Margaret Thatcher’s death remained unrepentant last night.

Romany Blythe, a drama teacher from Rowlands Road, Worthing, insisted: “They danced in the streets when Hitler died too.”

After the former Prime Minister died on Monday, the 45-year-old created a group on Facebook called The Witch is Dead, calling for thousands to join “demonstrations of disapproval” across the country.

She told followers to “celebrate our liberty and freedom from tyranny on the day that Maggie stands down, once and for all” at a list of locations, many of which saw riots and demonstrations, including Bristol city centre and George Square in Glasgow.

A number of police officers were injured and arrests were made, but Ms Blythe claimed she had, in fact,been the “voice of reason”.

In an exclusive interview with The Argus last night, she said: “People say you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead – but it depends who the dead person is.

“In normal circumstances celebrating someone’s death would be reprehensible. But we are generation X, upset people that left school to find hopelessness and despair.

“She was a despot. They danced in the streets when Hitler died too.”

Ms Blythe is a drama teacher with Theatre of Inspirations, a workshop company that visits secondary schools, and specialises in “facilitating workshops for young, excluded and potentially criminalised individuals”.

On the day of the former prime minister’s death, she wrote on her own Facebook page: “So the old bag has copped it finally! Party in the square tomorrow then!”

She then wrote she had invited more than 5,300 people to a 'flash party' to celebrate Baroness Thatcher's passing, with the message: "Anyone else like to join us?"

Later she urged her thousands of followers to urinate on the former prime minister’s grave.

And after riots broke out in Brixton, she posted a video of the disorder with the comment “my people”.

But Ms Blythe insisted she had not “fanned the flames” of disorder.

She said: “I didn’t do the rioting – I just organised a Facebook page. It was a way for us to come together and create unity and solidarity.

“There was no other time we could come together as a group and recognise what had happened to us. It was about politics, not about hatred.”

In an earlier interview, Ms Blythe told The Argus she feared her breast implants may have led to a miscarriage.

She was given the now banned PIP breast implants on theNHS, but said toxic chemicals could have contributed to the tragedy.