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Oh come on - did anybody actually see his Senate performance??? He was like a bull in a china shop, I hardly think that counts as a marker of his intelligence.
The Poll Tax was a better and fairer system than we currently have - charging four earning adults in a household IS fairer than the current system where a couple of pensioners who have scrimped and saved all their life to afford a home and now are living on a meagre pension are charged the same as their next door neighbours who are earning a fortune - the size of your house is not necessarilly an indicator of wealth.
And why are the scots so bloody unhappy? Scottish MPs are making decisions that affect the English, but the same doesn't happen vice versa - how is that right? You have free higher education, you are subsidised by the south. Scotland is a lovely place and the people I've met have always been really really nice, so I've never quite understood the chip. Not Scottish bashing - I'm married to one.
Doesn't anybody remember the utter utter shambles that Thatcher inherited from old Labour in 1979??? Omelettes and breaking eggs spring to mind - hard decisions had to be made to sort out the mess and she made them.
Without a shadow of a doubt the best post-war PM by far.
It never ceases to amaze me how people, like a bunch of shiny suited era Ben Eltons, doggedly refuse to see any positives from the Thatcher era.
I'm mature enough to realise that new Labour have been postive in many ways - a strong economy that overtook France a few years back, low interest and mortgate rates, handing responsibility for interest rates over to The Bank of England (genius stroke), but equally I can see problems as well - tax and spend (this has NEVER worked long term), theft of �5bn pensions PA, unchecked immigration, the whitewash that was Hutton etc etc etc....could go on.