> UK before Tatcher was a depressed society with stagflation Hardly a problem local to Britain, and hardly something Thatcher solved. It was a crisis that also

> UK before Tatcher was a depressed society with stagflation Hardly a problem local to Britain, and hardly something Thatcher solved. It was a crisis that also passed in countries that did not elect viciously anti-state, anti-working class governments. > crumbling infrastructure; that couldn't even clean its own streets Bit of an exaggeration, and I'm not sure how Maggie "Minimal State" Thatcher has supposedly helped with that. > Thatcher won two landslide re-elections for a reason If it weren't for the Falklands she would have been a one term president.