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That was her big f*** up. Going it alone on the Poll tax. Well,even if everyone had said yes we'll back you to the hilt,it would have been a disaster. I personally think the contradiction between being economically libertarian and socially authoritarian(section 28..what a joke) was one of the...

Abuse of democracy. what about all the quangos Thatcher set up during the '80s,and the power that was taken away from Local Government. I'm not denying Blair hasn't continued this though.

rejoice rejoice rejoice eh?

Yeah...and the Tories actually nationalised an industry(British Leyland,if memory serves me right) during the Heath govt. of 1970-4.

at least there was a clear ideological difference between the parties back then. Its all going distinctly middle of the road these days.

Kinnock has the distinction of being so bad he couldn't even beat John Major. Although in hinsight, many Tory MPs have said winning the 1992 election was the worst thing that could have happened to them.

I think what made it worse was the fact you had nuke happy Ronald Reagan in the White House at the same time. Thatcherism worked for all extent and purposes, it did just lack a long term "adaptation". It was a response to the end of the post war consensus era, and as a result, the public were...