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Not to mention 4 million+ unemployed, Brixton/Toxteth riots, unnecessary war to deflect public opinion and gain another election victory, a cat's dinner made out of the Northern Ireland situation, corruption/sleaze, tea and crumpets with Pinochet, arms deals with <insert your favourite crazed dictator here>, etc, etc,

I may be younger than you, but I do have a brain, and an interest in politics. Your argument that it was worse in the 70s, so she did the right thing, is a) debatable, and b) akin to stripping the carcass of a ailing company, keeping the meat for yourself and your friends, and leaving the bones for the vultures. Except that this was no company, it was a country, my country, and I won't forgive her, or her mates, for doing that.