ps.it's not quite 50 yrs though more 35 🙂

MT is blamed for destroying the coal industry but the majority of pits were closed down before she came into power, Harold Wilson presided over the greatest job losses but she still gets the blame.

How's this for a touch of the Monty Python, 'What did the Romans ever do for us?' 🙂

“I met a man in his mid 60s from Morton. He started to call Thatcher all the names under the sun for no apparent reason — I had not remotely mentioned her — and said that the “only thing that woman had ever done for me was let me buy my council house and my British Gas shares”. He then spat on the pavement in memory of the former Prime Minister and walked off.’