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 Originally Posted by Keith
I know how you feel Wilbur - facts are a bugger when you are trying to make an emotive argument.
Pity many of your "facts" are incorrect. Diana Gould repeatedly asked Thatcher why she had sunk the Belgrano when it was steaming away from the Falklands. She denied that it was, although appeared badly rattled. Probably because she was lying. Her Government later prosecuted Civil Servant Clive Ponting for leaking information that the Belgrano was sailing away from the Falklands and that the Government had lied. Despite him being clearly guilty, the jury acquitted him.
I am also sick of Thatcher's acolytes denigrating the seventies. I have suffered more power cuts in the last 5 years through privatised electricity companies failing to maintain the infrastructure adequately, than during the seventies. Her fan club drones on about having to wait for a 'phone like it’s the end of the world, but fail to mention that under Thatcher you had to wait 8 months for a driving test. I'd love to know why the eighties, with its riots, escalating crime, mass unemployment, selling off state assets at bargain prices, increasing homelessness and me, me, me greed were so much better.
Thatcher did not save the country. She ruined it. No serious economist disputes that her ideological adherence to monetary theory made the recession of the early 80s worse. Whole swathes of perfectly viable manufacturing companies were killed off by record interest rates and a high pound. Unemployment has never returned to the level it was in the 70s and Thatcher created an underclass that the Government is throwing money at today. Her greatest success was in depoliticising most of the country, so they swallow nonsense like she made the country a better place and are only concerned with getting the latest gadget and what talentless celebrities are doing.
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