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Fair comment Twizzle. I am much the same as you, except I didn't go abroad, but am still working in the public sector (can't afford to retire!) I was working in the public sector in the Thatcher years to, and saw at first hand the damage done. Still, we who detested Thatcher have to accept...

Rather less tedious than your incorrect punctuation, in my opinion. Obviously they don't teach the proper use of commas any more.

You mean like they ruined it in the 1940's, by setting up the NHS? Sad.............................

As has been said before - good graph! But it could be a graph of a lot of things - + unemployment + youth unemployment + house prices + the gap between the rich and the poor + the average salaries of merchant *ankers and city slickers + British institutions (power, water, telecomms, etc.) now...

Nice one! Don't be too harsh, though - any Thatcherite would naturally regard all detractors of Thatcherism as 'the Great Unwashed' (which term encompasses all pinkoes, lefties, liberals, socialists and commies). In doing so, they would only be following the precepts of the lady (you can judge...

Well said - all this and more. I could go on and on, but I expect many others have already done that. My daughter came round to take me for a celebratory pint last night - and we DANCED IN THE STREET!