I suspect Teribus, it was down to which seats you were sitting in as to what you thought of the show.

If the Thatcher era was a good one for you, or even a tolerable one - I suspect you were not living in the eye of the hurricane. Try working in a slum school, and thenhaving that status taken away from you by you're wife getting disabled. then having the index linked allowances that you'd paid a huge fraction of yoour tiny salary eroded and taken away from you.

Then getting sneered at a Tory party conferences for being a scrounging bastard by Peter Lily in a Gilbert and Sullivan parodies

Then you get home, go to a folk club, and some middle class bastard tells you that your folk music isn't folk music any more.

That was how the 1970's and 1980's played out for me.

Like I say, if you got better seats to the Thatcher show - well done.