> You can ignore Thatcher, since she was the head of a bankrupted, hapless country (Britain had food rationing for 9 years after WW2.) She became Prime Ministe

> You can ignore Thatcher, since she was the head of a bankrupted, hapless country (Britain had food rationing for 9 years after WW2.) She became Prime Minister in 1979. Britain was probably over the nine years of food rationing by that time... 34 years after the war ended...