"you-lefties are still blaming Margaret Thatcher for every damn thing under the sun and she left office a quarter of a century ago."

Yes, we are, because Thatcher was responsible for introducing the pernicious ideology of the neo-liberal free market to this country. This wicked, self-serving nonsense has led to our society becoming ever more deeply divided as the 'un-regulated' rich get richer and richer at the expense of the less well-off. Neo-liberalism also continues to damage our, already badly damaged, environment as the super-rich 'locusts' continue to voraciously devour it with no thought for future generations.