Why do people hate Scousers?

... constrast Liverpool around 1984, which was clean, vibrant, full of confidence, had vast amounts of money spent on it, with Liverpool 5-10 years later, which had become a festering and filthy shithole of a town...
...what had been a wonderful place that should have been a legacy for all time had, through neglect and acts of violence and destruction, become a forbidding wasteland of graffiti and rubbish...

...affected by Thatcher's policies to the same extent as Northern cities and towns. When the main source of income (Mining and dock working, car manufactering) of its populace was taken away during the 80s?

(Partial quotes but not intended to be out of contexr)

Interesting to compare this with Sheffield, losing it's mining and steelmaking around the same time. I moved south in the late 80's - by the early 90's the city council changed it's policy about accepting grants* and the city has since changed and improved almost beyond recognition. I suspect most industry-dependant cities go through periods of decline and regeneration - it's just that the timescales are now so compressed that it's happening every few decades.

• Socialist councillors refusing to accept aid from a Tory government or EU because it might be politically tainted.