I asked you to support your assertion that the economy improved under Thatcher. I suggested two groups who definitely did benefit. You haven't come up with anyone else. Perhaps we should ask the hundreds of thousands of perfectly healthy industrial workers and miners who were thrown by Thatcher on to a scrapheap called incapacity benefit (a handy way of avoiding calling them "unemployed"). I can assure you that teachers didn't do particularly well under Thatcher and were comprehensively shat on via the imposition of brainless initiatives such as a content-stuffed national curriculum and a brainless Ofsted whose inspectors received three days' training. Let alone a severe worsening of our working conditions. Tory ideology writ large just about wrecked the profession and we are still suffering. Incidentally, a very accomplished primary teacher of my acquaintance has been using a food bank for years.