" A waste of skin" - The Tories had a choice when Thatcher was booted out between Hesseltine, Major and Hurd and major was chosen as her blue-eyed boy because it was assumed that he had "the common touch." He then went to speak against devolution in Scotland and Wales. His government was forced to withdraw from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992. He was completely unable to control the mavericks in the party and presided over a government which was besieged by revelations about sleaze or sexual misconduct. One word sums up the sleaze - "Tatton." Because of his wafer thin majority, the Unionists were able to lead him around by the nose. The 1995 leadership crisis need never have happened if he had knocked a few heads together. Thank God for Tony Blair. I have no wish to see another Major or Thatcher in power again ever.