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Originally Posted by Sticks

In which case you need to look at the times of the late 1970's with wildcat strikes causing overseas companies not to invest in the UK. Coal that was more expensive to mine than to import making British goods uncompetitive.

You also have to consider a union leader who refused conduct a ballot before calling a strike.

You also have to consider the state of the then labour party, and how under Michael Foot it came up with an election manifesto that was described by a labour grandee as the longest suicide note in history

It was the events of those times that would lead to her election as Prime Minister in 1979 and win her two successive general elections.

If she was that unpopular why did people vote for her?

Thereby lies the paradox that was Margaret Thatcher

gee thanks lol............I assure you ive done all that i LIVED THROUGH IT A;LL as did my friends and families...........she was a disgrace. she went way way over the top and found zero balance..showed no empathy for any of her many victims..........she treated her fellow country men as the enemy.

she got in the way hitler got in, simply by th efact the nation was on its knees and anyone pointing to a better tomorrow woud have defeated labour in 1979.........her short term strategies meant people gave her another chance to get our economy on track.....worzel gummidge would have won the 79 election.......lower taxes on the rich from 88%, get inflation down over a few years.......the rest a disaster

she literally did only 1 thing right and thats europe........the rest was a disastrous elitist nightmare