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I now have 44 no marks on my ignore list:)

Even Thatcher herself wrote in her 1995 memoirs, which charted her beginnings in Grantham to her victory in the 1979 General Election, that she admired Attlee, writing: "Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer. He was a serious man and a patriot. Quite contrary to the general tendency of...

I agree with you. I did history O-level at Varndean GSFB and we only got as far as the industrial revolution. 20th century history was something I learned through my family and from what I read up on my own.

The have nots always have to blame someone else for their own failures.

Because Scargill got first dibs.

Interesting quote from the BBC; "What is her legacy? Britain would probably be a very different place today without Margaret Thatcher. Her bold free market reforms and curbs on union power - that caused so much controversy in the 1980s - are now accepted as conventional wisdom by all...

She believed in what she was doing, rather than what popular opinion thought she should do, a very rare attribute for a politician. RIP