They carried on her policy, but to say it's 'nothing to do with her' is just plain stupid.

Because they're clueless, useless and have zero vision for this country.

Labour had plenty of time to reverse the policy. They didn't and therefore, given that they were in power for a long period subsequent to Thatcher's dismissal from office, the responsibility is theirs. And if you voted for the Labour Party during their time in office, the responsibility is also yours.

Indeed.

Except I see numerous people blaming Thatcher for things that happened under, and were the responsibility of subsequent (or sometimes earlier) governments. I wonder how many of those people have "commented" (I use that term loosely) based on direct personal experience of that era - and the dreadful few years before then - and how many are just repeating what they have been told or choose to believe?

And with that, I am definitely out of here again, indefinitely, before I am physically sick.

Very few, I should imagine.

Thatcher was an ideologue. We havent really had a different ideology since her. Rightly, she is not only criticised (and praised) for her actions, but also the continuation of the ideology she sold.

I reckon there'll be a few in the mining communities feeling a bit nauseous after tonight's festivities!

It closed 20 years ago so presumably and according to that comment he retired at 50 ?

Not a bad old screw if you can get away with it - such a shame that as president of the DMA he turned a blind eye, or maybe even encouraged the in-fighting between his members especially as the Northumberland pits closed during and immediately after the strike and the NCB tried to amalgamate those left of the workforce who wanted to continue in the industry by transporting them to the Durham pits on a daily basis where they were met with intimidation, ignorance and some quite disgusting acts of petty discrimination designed to ward off their "brothers" who dared to come and try and amalgamate into "their" pit (defecating in a persons bait box being a common practice).

Nope, I'm afraid that we were well rid of those types of industrial practices.

Political parties rarely reverse legislation that previous governments have put in.

That Labour didn't reverse the policy does not absolve Thatcher of all blame. And that there are only two parties with a realistic shout of securing a parliamentary majority - neither of whom would have reversed the policy - does not mean that the electorate are responsible for the policy or the problems it has caused.

So to comment on domestic violence, rape, torture, murder etc, you have to have personal experience? Give over.

Cannot comment on your example but i do know that after the strike the NCB were quite happy to foster conflicts between workers. They often tried to use workers from different p[its to undermine workers who were already employed. I have no doubt that there were petty acts but that is what happens when the unions lost and workers became indavidualised and atomised and scared for their own livelihods.

Moving scabs to different pits and then sacking those who would not work with them.

If ting in a scabs bait box was all that happened to them they were lucky