Right, and Thatcher also setup a development corporation that invested heavily in Liverpool. Of all places in the UK, Liverpool has to be the best example of se

Right, and Thatcher also setup a development corporation that invested heavily in Liverpool. Of all places in the UK, Liverpool has to be the best example of self-inflicted problems. Also, it is strange to point out about corruption and Liverpool. Liverpool's mayor is widely regarded as one of the most corrupt people in British politics. If you look at other deprived areas in inner London or other parts of the UK, they recovered. The problem in places like Liverpool is a deep antipathy to enterprise, and a culture of relying heavily on the govt. Mone: she lied to a civil servant about owning a company, ministers have no role in procurement decisions, and the contracts given were audited ex-post by a third-party govt body (that ministers do not control and which exists to examine value for money, Auditor General). Zahawai: didn't pay the correct amount in taxes and also lied about it to a civil servant...what corruption? Like people have this weird off switch in their brain where they just read the BBC, their awful journalists tell them what they want to hear, and the bot brain activates: well, it is Tory corruption innit, investment, fraud...just no content at all.