Margaret Thatcher RIP.

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Soleron said:

Well I dislike everything she did except the coal mine closures. Having a competitive business be state run was inefficient.

Selling off natural monopolies like rail, power and water was stupid. Now we just have overcharging and undermaintenance, and yet the government still covers the losses of the rail franchises when they fail. Worst of both worlds.

Selling off council houses led to the shortage of social housing and did nothing to solve the general housing undersupply.

Regressive taxes were obviously bad.

Ambivalent about her stance on Europe, because I think free trade is good but political unity with disparate cultures and economies is bad.

There's no party I can vote for that will give me capitalism in most businesses but zero contracting/outsourcing/privatisation in the natural monopolies plus healthcare/education. in some respects Labour are too right for me, but I am not a socialist.

I dont agree with selling power/water, but actually most of these monopolies were totally inefficient. Thats governement for you... the bigger the system the more money/red tape thats required. So making them private companies and making competition cuts costs and improves systems on the whole.

The Coal mines, well lets be honest they are totally a waste of money. We can buy coal and get it shipped from Australia than digging up our own coal. When something is that inefficient there is no point keeping it going. Open coal mines are the most efficient, but we dont have the room over here to do that. Personally i would rather us waste that money we would spend on getting coal out of the ground on solar panels on every house.

Selling council houses actually helped house hold income and gave people more spending money - so it helped the economy, the *BIG* problem was that no one (conservatives or labour after) had considered building any more. So a bubble was created. The actual idea of people owning their own houses was fine, it was the rest of it that was the problem. In fact no goverment since the 80's has still fixed the housing issue... were still not building them in anywhere near high enough numbers.