Quite right, Fiolar, Gordon Brown I meant (funny how the fingers run ahead of the brain, isn't it -- even you suffer from similar effects in your post above); sorry for that.

As to "no such thing as society", here's what Mrs Thatcher actually said: ... I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. "I have a problem, I'll get a grant". "I'm homeless, the government must house me." They're casting their problems on society. And you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours. People have got their entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There is no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation... In context, it doesn't seen exceptional to me.