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I wasn't nine the last time we had a Conservative government. I also remember quite well the governments formed by Wilson and Callaghan at the culmination of which the British public found out the true cost of Labour's single policy version of politics; tax and spend. Which had people with money to invest fleeing the country en masse rather than pay income tax at 90%.

I remember rubbish piling up in the streets and the dead queueing up to be buried because the unions had dragged public sector workers out on strike after strike. I remember the antics of people Like Dereck Hatton in Liverpool and Margaret Hodge in Islington. The era of Champaign Socialism was also the era that allowed in the scourge of Political Correctness.

Margaret Thatcher may not have got everything right, nobody is perfect. She may not have been as diplomatic in her speech as some might have wished but, when she took office she told the nation quite bluntly that the medicine the country needed to get back on its feet would not be pleasant, and for many it was decidedly unpleasant. At least, unlike the present incumbent, she did not lie to the country and to parliament. And before anyone starts bleating about the "Belgrano" that is a different issue.