The day that Thatcher died

How is it ignorant - plenty of people benefited from Thatcher and not just the rich - she was in power for a decade and her party for even more, and someone was voting her in. Plenty of people believed what she did was right, and that's what kept her in power.

A very shortsighted view-- not unlike the arguments about RR in US whose policies are to blame for the current state of affairs. Instead of investing in new technology for factories she helped convert the UK to a services economy. The last plank of the UK economy is its parsitic banks....