Er, I think it was Maggie who shut down British industry in the 1980s and threw millions on to incapacity benefit in a cynical move to keep the unemployment figures looking acceptable. While she was at it, she wrecked hundreds of communities in working-class areas and threw working people, families, towns and villages on to the no-hope scrapheap. Just after that she deregulated the City and allowed the Big Bang (thousands of yuppies making overnight fortunes without having to do a scrap of work), which led to the Big Bust of the early 90s (exit from the ERM and hundreds of thousands of home owners, Maggie's flagship policy representatives, being pitched into the misery of negative equity).

You appear to be the archetypal right-wing revisionist. Well, it's nice to know the true colours of those you debate with. At least us lefties are proud of it.