"and saves people having to think intelligently about why this country is in the state it is"

If it makes me a thickie because I blame Thatcher et al for planting the seeds of a fair amount of discontent and social problems then so be it, but that still doesn't alter the fact we are now reaping the benefits of the aggressive monetarist policies of the 70s, 80s and 90s, and the trickle down effect is finally trickling upward and the middle classes are feeling the bite.

The fact the current goverment has taken this socially divisive dogma and carried it on to the extent they have is deeply depressing - I am a small business owner and the Labour party have made my very existence precarious, do me no favours with the massive amount of tax I pay but they are only continuing where Thatcher led when she introduced monetarianism as a political ideology.

It would be a buffoon who soley blamed Thatch for the ills plaguing modern society, but at least acknowledge the rough waters we are now sailing were due to a sea change she instigated thirty years ago.