You had to be there to grasp the scale of Margaret Thatcher's revolution

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Indeed, you shouldn't - clearly the knowledge of history of this country is optional ....

History is written by the victors, hence much of the Thatcher years is misrepresented - like the claim that she cut taxes when she actually increased them.

[BrilloPad]

History is written by the victors, hence much of the Thatcher years is misrepresented - like the claim that she cut taxes when she actually increased them.

Do you direct or indirect tax?

You cannot deny that she reduced the number of tax bands and simplified the system.....

[BrilloPad]

Optional?

Dunno, but I had the option of History or Spanish.

Of course that was Real History in those days, not the touchy feely crap they teach now.

Do you teach your students the touch feely stuff? What about the lustee?

[Mich the Tester]

Optional?

Dunno, but I had the option of History or Spanish.

Of course that was Real History in those days, not the touchy feely crap they teach now.

You mean learning the dates of irrelevant factoids? On which day and in which year did Lord Futtlethuck of Brougham-Stick roger the Spanish Infanta Ms Josephina des Syphiles?

I'm glad I opted for geography instead.

[sasguru]

On which day and in which year did Lord Futtlethuck of Brougham-Stick roger the Spanish Infanta Ms Josephina des Syphiles?

16 April 1775?

[Mich the Tester]

16 April 1775?

Wrong. It was after midnight; 17 april 1775. No, you don't get half a mark for nearly.

[Cyberman]

The irony is that Labour got into this mess by following thatchers free market ideology.

Yes, but they followed it with incompetence, and did not do anything when the economy was obviously overheating. Their taxing, borrowing and bingeing boom now has to be paid for with cuts to services. Sad but predictable as usual with Labour.

[DodgyAgent]

Not to mention devestating communities which depended on it and not putting anything in it's place.

How patronising. If you lost your job what would you do? sit at home and feel sorry for yourself and expect someone else to find you work?

[leeperry]

Yes, but they followed it with incompetence, and did not do anything when the economy was obviously overheating. Their taxing, borrowing and bingeing boom now has to be paid for with cuts to services. Sad but predictable as usual with Labour.

No, they followed it to the letter and this is where it ends up and this is where it would have ended up with a Tory government. How soon people forget the mess they made of the economy!.

[leeperry]

How patronising

It's not patronising, whole communities were thrown on the scrapheap, unemployment tripled under her. That's not the mark of good governance.