What destroyed our fishing industry, what destroyed our steel industry, what enforced the rules on water treatment to the extent that it was cheaper to sell the water companies to private enterprise than to modernise the system to meet EEC regulations? What made us sever our favourable trade agreements with NZ and other old trading partners because they were outside the EEC, thus pushing up the price of food?
Is it because of Maggie that our water tastes like swimming bath effluent, or our lamb is more expensive? Of course it wasn't, and it's all very well to use her to demonise her, it's a convenient peg, and saves people having to think intelligently about why this country is in the state it is.
How many houses has banning fox hunting built, and how many old age pensioners are unafraid to walk the street since the introduction of ASBO's? This government is just as bad as any of it's predecessors in modern times.
Who abolished corporation tax, who made it possible for entrepreneurs to buy up companies on borrowed cash, asset strip them, and pay only 10% tax or less for the privilege?
As I said, I am no Maggie Thatcher supporter, but I am in favour of equality and blame sharing, not scapegoating, and blaming people for things that happened long after they had gone. It's like blaming the measles you had as a child for the bronchitis you have as a smoking adult!
Giok