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[albitz]

The first post on this thread  had a link to Peter Hitchens article which explains that she didnt actually destroy the unions at all,the clever career unionists moved off in a different direction and have taken over almost every institution in this country and turned them into loony left madhouses and that is probably doing more damage to the country now than the old knuckle draggers like Scargill etc, did in the 70,s.So in my book she didnt really win the war, she just won some very bloody battles that left a huge amount of collateral damage,much of which could have been avoided if she was remotely interested in avoiding it.But I have no doubt that she thought that anywhere outside the home counties was pretty much a hive of communism and she didnt give a toss what happened to it.
I think that any sane person would agree that the unions were a big problem and needed to be sorted,thats stating the obvious really. I would argue that an intelligent rather than a beligerent leader could have solved the problem properly (which she didnt) and not caused the amount of damage she did to so many innocent people.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I agree with some of what you say (as always Z) but I will always maintain that her sledgehammer which cracked the union nut so to speak,destroyed British Industry and left us a nation of waiters and chambermaids.If the whole coal industry hadnt been sacrificed on her altar in  order to beat the lunatic Scargill,we wouldnt be paying ludicrous prices for imported coal for the new generation of coal powered power stations and held to ransome by all and sundry for our future energy needs.

Its a global market place, and we couldn;t compete.....it would have gone anyway and costed us as a nation a fortune on the way.

That and a small minority of minors sealed thier own fate by buggering productivity!

As for being held to ransom.....the coal is all still there but, its not cheaper to get out the ground than it is to import or it would be happening. we may in the future be glad its still there of course!

Entering this debate late, but you are absolutely correct Mark.

In the 1970s we had to endue stupid strikes, poor industrial productivity, awful industrail relations, crap British cars with diobolical realiabilty, products that no one wanted, non-competative market practices, rubbish not being collected, the dead not being buried, weak political leadership, very high national debt, and worse of all the whole British nation being described by foreigners as "the sick man of Europe" that was "going down the toilet"!!!

Post 1979, and the great couragous performance by Thatcher all that changed and we could at last hold our heads up as British citizens in a world that again was treating us with respect

Thatcher is what this country required at that time, as Churchill was in 1940, and now what we need is a leader of the same strong character for these times to right the mess we are witnessing currently 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

Except that if we vote Tory this time Lizzie.............we get David Cameron as Batman.......and the hopeless George Osborne as The Boy Wonder..............What a great choice the British people have come the general election.