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  Chris - but the cause of that unemployment was the unsustainable policies and economy that Mrs T inherited, as I said we would have had that unemployment anyway. The whole economy was in terminal decline and needed a dramatic change to turn it around. The evidence is in the appalling levels of subsidy of inefficient big heavy industry, the way industry overall was being driven to the wall by Union madmen and the unemployment statistics that were steadily rising before Mrs T with all that spending. remember that every Labour government ended it term with unemployment higher than when it started.
  
  Worth noting as well that Mrs T's period was one in which many more women were joining the workforce so in spite of unemployment increasing so did levels of employment. There was a lot of tail chasing that distorted the bare figures.

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