Was Maggie Thatcher a good Prime Minister?
Paulcous wrote – “War, riots, record unemployment,record suicide rates, hospital and school closures,the industrial base of Britain devastated and a lot more record crime rates ,house repossessions ect ect ect you make your own mind up I lived through her reign” Now that sounds like Britain under New Labour to me. Thatcher was portraid as tough, no nonsense Prime Minister who stole our Milk and closed all the mines, but the truth is, She had to and History will suport her, She came to power from a Labour goverment that had sent this country into mass debt (sound familar does it not), The IMF had written this country off and our export was non exsistant. We couldn’t produce coal cheap enough to match the Eastern block Countries and it was cheaper to import our coal than it was to mine it, Tough as it seems, plus She knew the futrue was in Nuclear energy and had Labour not scrapped it when they came to power only for them to turn around 10 yrs later and say we need nuclear plants, but it
