Thatcher divided our nation like no other..In my opinion she had psychopathic mental issues and was in no way fit for being a PM..
Without doubt she was the best post war prime minister we ever had. Even Blair went to see her for advice. Her first job was to take on Arthur Scargill, and won hands down against a guy who thought he could hold the country to ransom.
But Tony Blair is also a mass murderer and a Tory posh boy prick. It was sickening to see labour MPs lining up to kiss her arse at Westminster after the bitch croaked it
Arthur Scargill needed dealt with. A good prime minister would have done this without destroying the national coal industry and so leaving us to be ransomed by the Russians now for power, and without destroying huge swathes of the north of England and Scotland. She was pure evil in my eyes.
The Tory philosophy then and now is the same. Back in the late 70's the country was in a massive recession. Thatcher decided the only way out was pure capitalism, through big business, private enterprise and investment banking. Her belief that in the short term the working classes would suffer, but the transformation would eventually lead to new industries pulling up the working classes. But instead of doing this surgery with precision and clinically, she did a hatchet job, with little regard for the turmoil and devastation she caused to real people up and down the the country (mainly up the country). Fast forward to 2010 and another recession. Cameron has used pretty much the same approach but to a smaller degree. Once again, pandering to big business and investment banking, the very culprits who got us into this mess. And once again the average folk are the ones who have had to pay the biggest price. BTW this isn't a partisan view, I hold just as much contempt for the sell-outs in Labour and the weasels that are the Lib Dems.
How about Harold Wilson as the best post-war PM?? He really did try to modernise UK industry, make the UK competitive by devaluing the pound to make our exports more competitive, education, take us into the Common Market as well as trying to deal with the unions without a hatchet via Barbara Castle's blueprint "In place of strife." Trouble with the Tories at the time is that they were hell bent on confrontation without negotiation. Modern day Tories are a bit more subtle in their approach to "divide and rule."
