I'm sure that all those 'working class people', who bought their council houses and subsequently made themselves a tidy profit and all the rest who made an absolute bomb through share ownership would agree that the Thatcher years were all about poverty.
Thatcher didn't do anything to the unions that Wilson (Labour) hadn't wanted to. A lot of the policies she introduced to deal with the unions were lifted straight from a white paper intitially devised by Wilsons Labour government and Labour leaders had for years been trying to get Clause IV written out of their constitution (something Blair succeeded in doing). The unions needed dealing with, both Labour and the Tories knew it but where Wilson had to back off in fear of committing political suicide, Thatcher could plough on.
It was John Major that gave rail privatisation the go ahead, but why let the facts get in the way. For that matter, Blair's Labour government, who promised pre-election to nationalise the railways, didn't do so and made themselves a tidy sum by selling off the remaining routes.
I'm pretty ambivalent either way, but it seems to me that a lot of the haters are a little too wrapped up in the myth and not too interested in facts.
Thatcher didn't do anything to the unions that Wilson (Labour) hadn't wanted to. A lot of the policies she introduced to deal with the unions were lifted straight from a white paper intitially devised by Wilsons Labour government and Labour leaders had for years been trying to get Clause IV written out of their constitution (something Blair succeeded in doing). The unions needed dealing with, both Labour and the Tories knew it but where Wilson had to back off in fear of committing political suicide, Thatcher could plough on.
It was John Major that gave rail privatisation the go ahead, but why let the facts get in the way. For that matter, Blair's Labour government, who promised pre-election to nationalise the railways, didn't do so and made themselves a tidy sum by selling off the remaining routes.
I'm pretty ambivalent either way, but it seems to me that a lot of the haters are a little too wrapped up in the myth and not too interested in facts.