I fear that distance may be lending enchantment to the view there, Dave. In many regards, this lot are the legacy of Thatcherism. Don't forget what the latter did: turned the utilities that should never have been privatised into the Wild West, selling super-cheap shares to red-wallers to make them into Tory-voting mini-capitalists, freeing up the City and the banks so that they could do what they bloody well wanted to make themselves super-rich, creating illusory booms, and, less than three decades down the line, and connived in by New Labour, sending us all (except them) in 2008 into hellfire for a decade. Oh, and destroying whole industries and communities along the way.