hi #99 have you ever visited Wallsend on Tyne the home of Swan Hunter Shipbuilders where ONCE 9000 people helped build some of the worlds best ships, i say once because of her and her predecessors Swan hunter Shipyards are no longer there, the tower cranes that lifted the ship units into place are all gone, the slipways are all gone, the pre-fabrication sheds echo to the ghosts of the past because the work force is gone, she and her party decimated not only the pits but also the steel and then the shipyards, so don't ask me to remember her as a strong leader, that she was not, anyone can destroy industry's, only a good leader can keep them open, she was a vile vindictive person and thought nothing of those she and her party cast aside (nothings changed there has it)?  so come next Wednesday when they waste £10,000,000 pounds of taxpayers money,   money that should go to far better causes than to parade a dead body through the streets of London, i for one will remember the good days by raising a glass or two in memory of the great ship yard she and her party destroyed.

Have you ever studied the history of Swan Hunter and seen the only thing done by Thatcher's government was to privatise it in 1988?

What destroyed the yards was the inability of the company to build ships on time and on budget, that's why the cranes went in 2006.

The industries that went under were uneconomic ones many of which were being propped up by the taxpayer.