@KennyR
Labour has been in power for 8 years and the transport system has only gotten worse. They've meddled excessively with the train network, creating quangos, abolishing the same quangos a few years later, creating authorities, giving excessive amounts of money to train companies for poor services. They've also created the "motorway for the elite" - toll motorways alongside regular motorways. A shameful 2-class system if I ever saw one. And one the Tories never tried in 2 decades and opposed when they Labour built them this year.
5 million employed (by the state) in unnecessary and token jobs - the public sector was riddled with wastage and bad management. The socialists had spent so much money in the 70s that the country was bankrupt by the time Thatcher came to power. The IMF refused more money without reform, there was no money to pay people in these unnecessary jobs. There was no choice but to sell off some of the nationalised industries.
Then there was the Union Effect. The militant unions destroyed British industry with excessive strike action. Ship building in the north east was wrecked - why order ships from Newcastle when it would be over-budget and late because of industrial action. People took their business abroad. Same for steel, coal...
Instead of blaming the Tories for rectifying the situation, why don't you blame the socialists for creating it in the first place?! The Tories didn't create 5 million unnecessary jobs paid for by the taxpayer. This kind of wastage just isn't acceptable.
And "just to keep inflation down"
?? Sweet Jesus man! Inflation KILLS economies. And it was already at record levels before Thatcher re-introduced some sensible economic policy to the UK. Inflation kills people's savings and it weakens the value of the currency. In 1972, Sterling was worth $3.75!!!!!! (imagine that today!). Even the incompetants who run the Eurozone have at last adopted the British economic model of low-inflation.
