"PoP" wrote in message
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:45:19 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman
wrote:

Well, you must be pretty young if you can't remember just how many
ordinary people's lives Thatcher and her pals ruined. Or, of course, very
rich.

I have a lot of respect for people who were affected by the coal and
steel industries shutting down in the UK.

The unions had nothing to do with the decline of British industry. Thatcher
legislated them to neutrality and we went even further downhill. So it
wasn't unions.

snip misinformed drivel