Funnily enough I was just going to edit to add that I disagreed with a couple of things she did, including YES...selling off of public housing stock...though would they now be filled with asylum seekers, etc ?Originally Posted by joebloggs
1m+ council houses sold off, no wonder there is a social housing shortage
record unemployment under thatcher
stole from everyone, and sold everything off that was brtish
I also disagreed with stopping of free school milk.
The unemployment was always going to happen though, that was already in full swing.
I believe cheap Polish coal imports were partly to blame for pit closures, but again some short-sightedness on the part of the govt.
Just a pity the Miners (and I'm from a mining town originally) picked a particularly obnoxious character to speak for them, who eventually didn't actually do their cause much good, just as it may have been.
