Margaret Thatcher was hellbent on destroying the unions for her own ideological ends. As the unions that were likely to cause her the most inconvenience were in the big industries and mining, her obvious target was a no-brainer. Also for ideological ends she sold off the nationalised utilities far too cheaply in order to get as many people owning shares (which means sitting on your arse as the money rolls in, especially in the early killings, and voting Tory for the rest of your life - and you talk about Corbyn bribing students to vote Labour!!) We've spent the last thirty years trying to work our way around their incomprehensible jungles of tariffs and price plans, designed to rob us, of course, as those do-nothing shareholders need their dividends, don't they. She sold off council houses at massive discounts - our money given away again. Only the best, most desirable, of course. The poorest could go hang. And she didn't create all those "services sector" jobs. They blossomed because she deliberately turned a blind eye to regulation and ended up virtually scrapping it. Some bloody services sector - we ended up with extremely irresponsible banks used as cash cows for speculators and a financial sector infested by spivs. Some "service." I'd like to see a breakdown of those "services sector" jobs that replaced industry and which were so good for the country. The only people being "served" were the ones getting millions in unearned "bonuses" while those extremely profitable industries that Teribus likes to crow about squealed at the very idea that their workers might be worth £6.25 an hour with no job security (and haven't we gone downhill since then with bogus apprenticeships at half the minimum wage, millions of "self-employed" to avoid national insurance contributions, no sick leave, no holiday, no bloody nothing - Parcelforce drivers fined £400 per day just for being sick, over a million on zero hours - oh yes, we euphemistically call it the "flexible workplace," I forgot) Thatcher's legacy. None so blind. And I'm afraid that covers you too, Senoufou. I'm staggered that a person who posts with such common humanity can sycophantically stand up for one of the most inhuman leaders this or any other country has ever had.