Wonders how many people got on the house market as a result of thatchers policies, and as a result probably a lot more families are better off than they would have been.

Thought Brixton riots were more about racial tensions and the police than hatchers policies.

Coal mines were already in decline, the end would not have been as quick if it was not for the strikes. would you buy into what was already subsidized loss making industry- the reason why very few became privatized. Nice for the steel industry to buy so much imported coal.

I'm from a coal mining area, it took the miners 2 hours to get to the coal face, some did little work when they got there and slept on the coolers, before doing some work before there 2 hr trip back, now obviously this is not indicative of most miners, but there is little question that the prime industries were no longer competitive, complacent, and expected a wage for doing little.

In my mind there is little doubt that the unions were placing a strangle hold on Britain themselves causing a lot of problems within industry, and were i believe out of control.Scargill is to blame as much as Thatcher for the strikes, and there longevity

It is to easy to blame the government of the day for their woes, and to still hold all that spite after 25years says more about them than the government policies of that day.