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This is all a bit mixed up. IS was a Trotskyite fringe group whose members would never have read the Stalinist Morning Star (the paper of the mainstream communist party of Great Britain). And both of these groups (IS and CP) had tiny memberships with little real influence over the Labour Party...

But as many posts on here confirm, there was a significant proportion of the electorate (albeit not a majority at that time, agreed) which she not only alienated, but who continue to hold her in contempt more than twenty years after she left office. There might, possibly, just be a reason for...

Fair enough. That's all I was saying. I don't disagree with the rest of your post. You might also have mentioned Beveridge's strong links with the Fabian socialists (Webbs etc) but never mind.

Don't rewrite history in the interests of your own ideology, like some Stalinist apparatchik It was absolutely not a Liberal initiative. Beveridge (who was at the time an academic economist, not a politician) was commissioned at the initiative of the Labour side in the wartime Tory-Labour...

er no, it's a half-baked assertion

Well you've certainly shattered all my stereotypical illusions about "Zummerzet" yokels

Patronising irony.... My favourite!

I wasn't aware that there was a correlation between political orientation and personal hygiene, I confess. Or is that just some ironic "casual derision" of your own?

Pushing your luck here mate, if you expect most of the Thatcher fans on here to know what a Gini coefficient is. Good graph though

I lived through those years, but take absolutely the opposite view to you -- in my view, she was the last thing we needed, and the changes she wrought to society and the economy were pernicious ones, the consequences of which we're still living with. But as others have said that just shows how...