You are an idiot.
Margaret Thatcher made the country richer, made the poorer richer and made the richer richer. Albeit, the gap between rich and poor grew, but everyone was richer as a result of the Conservatives.
Before Margaret Thatcher came in, there was rubbish piled up in the streets, unions taking over the country by picketing together with different companies to get more money. Maggie stopped this and took control from the unions back to the government.
Maggie did exactly what is necessary now, she made the state smaller and gave more control to councils and to the people. Socialism, the Labour party line, takes control away from the people as they attempt to control everything, in doing so they achieve very little.
It was this that Maggie abolished; she realised that by trying to do everything, you can do nothing. Maggie focused on the important issues and got this country back on the top where it belonged.
You, Caleb, have been subject to an unfortunate 13 years of propaganda from your father. There were only two truly great, huge political powers in the 20th century. Those were Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. Tell me why, if the Conservatives were so bad in the 1980s, that the electorate voted for Margaret Thatcher three times and in the end she suffered attacks from jealous ministers in her own party who wanted to become Prime Minister. Margaret didn’t even get voted out, she resigned because of this.
Tell me, if Margaret Thatcher was so bad, why was it that the only way for Labour to gain power in 1997, was for Tony Blair to admit that the Conservatives had done a heck of a lot right in the 1980s and Labour had to accept that.
I find it very sad that you have been subject to not only your father’s propaganda, but the BBC propaganda as well that will have you believe that the whole country despised Margaret Thatcher. BBC is a thoroughly left wing corporation which did not get on with Margaret Thatcher. This is why today you hear nothing but crap from the BBC regarding her reign as the Prime Minister. From 1979 to 1990, this country never had it so good. Margaret Thatcher modernised this country and finally allowed it to turn its back on the war and its debt to society.
Until you face these facts, you’re just another biased, left wing child who will suffer the unfortunate fate of being cast as “voting for his father”. Get your own mind and read up on some facts before you insult the most popular peace time Prime Minister this country had in the 20th century.
Either that or get a job at the BBC.
