Well, good old Labour had run inflation up to 25% when Maggie took over, and at that time I was working in the dole office signing on the record numbers of unemployed.
The country needed pulling back from the brink, and love or hate her, that she succeeded in doing.
I'll also admire any leader who puts two fingers up to the great unwashed across the channel.
Labour has overseen the transfer of power from a once proud and independent nation to a bunch of (European) corrupt also-rans and peasant farmers who freely pass along their illegal immigrants to us.
- Not to mention the credit and banking crisis which somehow managed to creep up on them and their 'brilliant' chancellor while they were busy feathering their own nests from the purses of the working classes whom they purport to represent.
Next time you see an instruction book thicker than the mobile phone it came with because it has to be printed in 20 languages, or pause to reflect on the multimillionaire status of the 'New Labour' hypocrites who led this country into the biggest national debt in its history....![]()