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  I disagree with both of you 100%.
  
  Think back to the utter mess the country was in before Mrs T. The Unions thought they could bring down any government they did not approve of and I lost count of the number of times people told me they would destroy a Conservative government.
  
  We had massive subsidies going into outdated, over-manned, inefficient industries suffering from extreme TU militancy. Inflation at one point hit 29% - much of it because of lax UK monetary and fiscal policy and not oil. We were the sick man of Europe. Callaghan had to go to the IMF for a bail-out like some third world country. Strikes were held on any excuse at all, of a drop of a hat. he economy was overly regulated in every sense, you could only take £50 with you on holiday and had to get your passport stamped to exchange money. The whole situation was simply untenable and the economy was going down the drain fast. Yes it was largely the fault of the Labour government and the Trade Unions but Ted Heath can take some of the blame too as he did not address the core problems and did his famous U Turn. These were problems stacking up for decades of financial and economic bad management by all governments.
  
  Mrs T turned all that around and it needed her strength and dedication to do the right thing for the country. It was nothing to do with dogma but dealing with problems of immense proportions. The high unemployment was dreadful but it was unavoidable and would have happened even without her as the whole economy was on a route to hell regardless. But she turned it around, tamed the madmen in the Unions and placed the economy on a more sustainable footing.
  
  We all owe her a massive debt of gratitude.

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