OK Giok, we don't agree, no problemo. My last words, as I don't want to get entrenched in an argument which I suspect neither of us will admit to losing:-
Whether our industries would have survived or not is a moot point - she made sure they never had a chance. And she delighted in being Robin Hood In Reverse - stealing from the 'poor' (by which I mean the Comparatively-Less-Well-Off) to give to the rich. She held the poor in total disdain - a true-blue bully-girl who loved kicking anyone who she perceived as weak and defenceless. She even married a millionaire - no chance of her tying the knot with a Govan welder.
I'm surprised at your defence of Thatcher - she had little or no regard for your country or the welfare of your countrymen. The only people who did well were the go-getters and fat-cats, it was largely due to her influence that it became fashionable to get rich by moving paper balances around instead of by making real wealth - goods for trade.
And that's where we still are today - millions in 'non-jobs', waiting-on in restaurants, taking degrees in 'leisure and tourism', following college courses in 'health and beauty' because there are no real jobs and New-Labour-Conservatives don't want the true number of unemployed to become common knowledge.
She wasn't the messenger Giok, she was the architect.
Ah well.....
:-)