I don't have any hatred or opprobrium for Keith and Mike - they aree good men and valued friends.

They obviously disagree with me and you Richard. But so do thousands of other people.

They haven't seen what we have seen, and in a way - they're lucky. I sort of envy them. If you didn't witness what Thatcher did to this country from the bottom in society - you didn't have a ringside seat to one of the nastiest episodes in this country's history.

Not as messy as the Black Death - but quite as many victims, and the country's industrial heart ripped out for corrupt profiteers and asset strippers - as surely as if done by one of Henry VIII's executioners.