So...

1. She oversaw the dismantlement of heavy industries - steel, shipbuilding, car making, machine tool making - in order to destroy the unions.

2. She eliminated coal mining, with the same motive, without doing any forward analysis. We're now reliant on gas from Russia and the middle east, until we get the French to build us some new nuclear reactors.

3. She deliberately switched the British economy from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, and it's been downhill from then until now, when we can't afford to tell the borderline criminal bankers to f**k off.

4. The "boom" of the 80s was due to North Sea oil and the mirage of affluence from the Big Bang, with nothing of substance behind it.

5. She made a hash of denationalising the Railways, so that it's cost us more than it brought in.

6. She stole my milk.

Posted By: TransitVanBeethoven on November 8th 2011 at 17:26:31

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