"Every Labour government that has lasted long enough, that is a full term or more, left the country bankrupt so when the Tories got in their efforts were always in repairing the economy"
Nothing to do with the system that Tory Governments and now Labour governments have dedicated to propping up, of course - always the fault of "that other lot"
Past Labour Governments have attempted to solve economic problems without hurting the lesser-well-off too much - the Tories have never bothered and have just gone in with the boot from day one.
Nowadays, their policies have become virtually indistinguishable.
Thatcher made no bones about her contempt for workers rights and the conditions they/we lived in, so when she came to power, she went straight for the jugular.
THATCHER YEARS STATISTICS
THE RESULT
Jim Carroll