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  Andrew, opinion is one thing, facts are another.
  
  It really does stretch the imagination to blame Mrs T who believed in sound money and repaying debt for Blair and Brown who have clearly followed the opposite course!
  
  Today we are now officially in recession, not only that but this recession is now officially deeper than any since 1980 when Mrs T was fighting to restore the mess left behind by Callaghan.
  
  Her response to the recession was exactly the opposite to what Brown has done. She actually raised taxes (compares to Brown's so called stimulus) and cut public spending. Geoffrey Howe's budget prompted 360 economists to write to the papers saying it would never work, among them was the present Governor of the Bank of England. These economists can now be seen to have been wrong. Her policy did work and resulted in an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity.
  
  Now we have the '360' economists in charge, with those who attacked Mrs T in Government. There is no sign of their medicine working and worse to come. Next quarter's figures are set to show that we will be in the worse recession since WW2.
  
  To try to argue that Mrs T's economic policies bear any resembelance to those of the Blair/Brown era stretches credability too far.

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