Doug, Margaret Thatcher was a strong leader vith very strong views. The problem with her is that she gave no thought to anything other than her views and people seemed not to matter - more numbers in her game than anything else.

If you were transported back, it would be better to be transported back a few years ealier so he could judge for himself how things were going before there.

In the long term, Thatcher's policies prooved to be far more damaging to many than anything that went before her but I think it unrealistic to suggest that she was the only wrong or that things were rosy before she came to power. Going back and reading Sapper's description of his memories of the 70's, one could almost argue that the "looney left" laid the foundations for the country to want someone like Thatcher - someone strong enough to take them on...

Jon