Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
Thatcher used it to fund her war on the miners and others and introduce the ****ed up version of economics we currently practise in the UK.

Yes Norway is an outlier to an extent, but then Sweden and Finland are also good example's of high tax economies.

I'm not claiming that these are perfect, but then is any institution, organisation or indeed personal life where human beings are involved perfect?
I thought Thatcher used all the money from privatisation for all those things - or was it both. I'm not sure I was expatting at the time. She did also nationalise Britoil.
Wilson had a few years to **** it up too once his government and Heath's had ****ed the economy in the early half of the 70's. In comparison to those two Starmer and Sunak seem almost competent