"Reagan and Thatcher, the world may never recover from them."

Well the evil that was Soviet Russia certainly won't

With regard to Margaret Thatcher - we're being a little selective here aren't we?

But come on; please do tell us all how wonderful things were in the UK throughout the 1970's

Tell us all about how democratic was the application of the power of the block vote as used by the Trade Unions to dictate to the elected Government of the United Kingdom exactly what it could or could not do.

Explain to us all the economic sense of subsidising grossly inefficient industries and paying £250 per ton for a commodity you could buy and have delivered from the other side of the world for £8 per ton.

The trouble with the UK is that nobody is prepared to pay the taxes required to keep the welfare state running. The mantra of the left - "It's always somebody else's fault" - "Somebody should do something about .......... (Fill in whatever)". Wrong, if there is anything that needs fixing get the fuck on with it and fix it, you are responsible, nobody else.

The Welfare State as envisioned by its creators has been corrupted and abused to create a culture of dependence in the UK. Everybody in the UK can tell you and reel off their "rights" down to the last dotted 'i' and crossed 't' - None of these fuckers however are so forthcoming about telling you what their responsibilities are and that is why the country is going to hell in high gear. Anything that is good is knocked and dragged down to the lowest level, as a country we revel in self-abasement and mediocrity. The politically correct, socialist, trendy left seem to delight in advertising promoting the desirability of being as thick as shit and proud of it.

Oh LWD, about he inability to rescind decisions taken by the Thatcher's Government. Your comparison to the murderer The Yorkshire Ripper is patently ridiculous. Tell me in these last three Parliaments and Labour Governments, how many coal mines were opened? How many Steel Mills were built? How many shipyards opened? How many car plants opened? Are you trying to tell me that it was not in their power to do any of that?