Well when I said you voted for it. what I meant was that after the Toxteth riots and the Handsworth riots, then the hunger strike business - even if she did get lucky in the Falklands - she obviously didn't give a bugger about the social consequences of her policies.

it was great that she stopped inflation, but by God was there a casualty list! In truth we're still picking the lead out of our society from those years. and some areas of society, we'll simply never get back. Degenerate gambling dens on every street corner, hard drugs freely available - it all came in the wake of dismantling the mining industry so carelessly.

have you ever checked out the pages of gamblers anonymous - in particular the slot machine addicts. Its a disease which is rampant in our society, and no one of any political party seems to give a bugger.

basically it happened when the manufacturing base of the country was whipped out from under the population, leaving a lot of idle hands and diretionless young folk.