Ok I'll try again with that link
My Firefox really doesn't get on with this board

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/mark-steel-you-cant-just-shut-us-up-now-that-margaret-thatchers-dead-8568785.html

my understanding of the definition of a great leader is their ability to unite and lead, she just divided, as seen by this thread and many other things going on at the moment

I remember the 70's 
quereing at the supermarket waiting for the sugar to be brought out because Tate and Lyle were on strike quereing outside the independent bakers because Mothers Pride or United Bakers or somebody were on strike.

I Remember my Dad going up to the Morris Social club for mass meetings on the sports ground coz Red Robbo had called one, and the telegrams arriving to tell him to go back to work ( he was at British Leyland Cowley Plant) he hated the unions too, that's why he went back on the cabs, and Yea I remember him quereing for petrol but that was OPEC and not the unions.
I left school in 1980 and was lucky to have an apprenticship as a Chef at Lincoln College OXford.
My mum had got me a job serving the students at table when I was 14 because she was a college scout, I was at Oxford the same time as Cameron and and Osbroune who knows I may well have served them or cooked for them.

I knew my place I was an pleb Ock or any other term those upper class twats thought I was and took great joy in reminding us staff that we were.
I know all about Tories and their attitudes to the working classes.

Anybody remember when there were personell departments in companies that dealt with people.
And not Human resource departments that deal with Human resources 

everybody is somebodies Daughter Son  father Mother etc, could say that about Hitler and anybody.
I speak of the dead as I spoke of them in life.
It my thing trying not to be a hypocrite 

 Fail to see how we (the tax payer) are now paying more to subsidise the Rail Companies than we did when it was Nationalised,
But the private companies make a profit is better for the Tax payer.

Council House sales shortage of affordable housing, housing benefit now going to private landlords and not local authorities is really a brilliant way of spending our money ?

Anybody remember Halifax, Abby National and a few other Building Societies that couldn't lend more money than they had from their investors, and couldn't go gambling in the City of London to raise cash.
You know those old entities from back in the day when you had a choice of more the just a few too big to fail banks to get a mortgage from.

Wonder what lending would be like now, if they were all still Building societies, and what the house building and construction industry would be doing?
 
Actually I wonder how we would be doing if we hadn't moved into Maggies service based economy where we moved from financial services being 3% of our GDP to 40% of our GDP ?