""maybe you are forgetting the prevailing climate back then. she was explicity responsible for encouraging the idea of a 'them and us' society and derided anyone not of her liking.""

Frigging hilarious!   Also arrant bloody nonsense!

Are you trying to say that the Wilson/Callaghan years were a model of unity and harmony, with workers, unions and employers marching arm in arm into a rosy future of prosperity for all.

Don't make me laugh, mate, the late sixties and the whole of the seventies were a constant series of battles between "them" and "us", with the gutless Labour govrnments wringing their hands on the sidelines, while the unions ruled (ruined) British Industry and the Economy.

You don't need a history book if you lived through it.

Don T.