I didn't mean to pick on you Allan, I agree with most of your stated views.

But along with all the hatred for Mrs Thatcher in Scotland and the loss of jobs, thousands rushed to take advantage of the "right to buy" scheme which Mrs Thatcher championed.
Some whom I have known for years as Labour through and through were first in the queue

SJ...Mrs Thatcher was not personally responsible for the issues we are dealing with today. She tried to make a Capitalist economy in decline, competitive......and she succeeded for a while, as did Blair, but you cant make water run uphill, the pendulum was swinging and we can see the result today. "Financial products" and "life on credit" were the last throw of the dice, but it couldn't work. Whether Mrs Thatcher had existed or not, the system was bound to fail when our goods and services were too expensive, shoddy, or in the case of the financial boom, simply a huge scam.

Funny thing is, politicians are still telling us that it can be fixed...but you will have noticed that they're very short on detail as to how this is to be accomplished.
Apparently turning us all into paupers, and condemning our kids to a life without purpose is about the best they can come up with....Ake.