Getting back to Mrs Thatcher for a moment, people here talk about the destruction of British manufacturing, as if this was a policy brought in to break the "working class", a diabolical right wing conspiracy.

We all know that our manufacturing industries and production of useable resources had become uncompetitive under globalism, they had to be shut down or nationalised and no government of right or left would have had the balls to undertake that task, with its enormous effects on society. It would have meant the ditching of the capitalist system and lower living standards for a spoiled middle class. The rich would be screaming and their middle class supporters would have sabotaged any attempt at change.

Mrs Thatcher was a supreme capitalist politician, her "right to buy scheme" was a political masterstroke.....there are still people who make their living from it, while poor people remain homeless.
She bought another forty years for the system, are we going to allow the "Blairites" to buy another forty?