A couple of points. With regard to hospital cleaning - when the service was removed from the control of the nursing management it started to go down hill. Mind you cleaning by staff other than nurses is a fairly recent innovation. By recent I mean in the last 35 years or so. When I started nursing in the mid fifties all cleaning (ward that is) was carried out by us nurses. I remember that the floor had to be washed at least once a week. As the majority of the wards had wooden floors, they were then allowed to dry and then wax polish was applied and buffed. Woe betide anyone if when the job was finished the nurse in charge couldn't see his face in the floor.
In regard to the Falklands, there used to be a rumour that some Argentine soldiers who had surrendered were shot out of hand. True or not, I don't know. But I wonder if the true story will ever be told. Thatcher is no hero of mine. She destroyed my beloved Health Service in which I spent practically all my working life.