I think if you look over the history of the project, you will find that Thatcher was still ballsing on about scorched earth monetarism, honest money, and that with her little shopping basket, she couldn't buck the market.


Same sort of argument the tories had for opposing the labour Nottingham council giving Torville and Dean a grant to enable them to give up their jobs and compete.

Like the tories great humourist Jim Davies used to say such investments are 'too wisky'.