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Originally Posted by Kizzy

If it were a conceptional piece it would depict a deformed she wolf emerging from a swirling mass of dead miners.
That would be a true representation.

The standard of living for us working class improved under Thatcher more than any other PM.

I understand at the time that people were angry about the mines shutting down, because at the time they wern't to know that by the end of Thatchers reign that their standards of living would be much improved. At the time they were concerned for their futures, a bit like the protesters at the weekend, whom I think you may have been against?

By the end of Thatchers reign there were not that many people screaming to open the mines back up, almost everybody had moved on pretty quickly. Their Double glazing, central heating, indoor toilets, home telephones, microwave ovens, washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwashers, televisions in every room, video recorders, satatalite television, stack systems, 3 piece suits and foreign holidays saw to that. Many working class didn't have most of that when Thatcher came in, they did by the time she'd left.

She was the daughter of a corner shop greengrocer, no wonder she gave us some tick, she let us put it on the slate.

Under Thatcher, we prospered.