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  KeithB - look back at the 1960's and 1970's, consider the immense abuse of power from the Trade Unions, the massive subsidies to whole inefficient industries producing goods that no-one wanted to buy. Remember the 3 month wait to get a phone from the Post Office and the lack of choice and options. Think about all those strikes and power cuts, the £50 limit on spending abroad on holiday. Britain was in terminal decline, the Conservative governments in the 50's failed to reverse it, Heath did his u-turn and failed dismally. Britain then was about managed decline only. Many claim the country was even ungovernable without Union permission....
  
  Mrs T changed all that for the better. You should remove your rose coloured glasses about the old State monopolies as they were part and parcel of that pattern of decline. Monstrous monopolies that were not fit for purpose.
  
  She was our greatest peacetime prime minister. A conviction politician who said what she meant and did what she said. If she thought it right (and she was right 90% of the time) she stuck to her guns and di what was necessary.
  
  She had her failures, yes, but no-one whop achieves great things does so without their failures too. The only way to avoid them is to do nothing.
  
  Incidentally Keith - referring to your last comment regarding the financial sector. She was the person who introduced regulation into the retail side of financial services that resulted in it being cleaned up, it was that legislation that got redress over pension mis-selling and endowment mis-selling for instance. It was Labour who messed up regulation in 1997 that led directly to the bank issues we have now. Financial services is a massive revenue earner for the UK and contributes a massive amount to the Treasury.

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