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Burnham keeps blaming Thatcher for this Government's failures.
Here's some FACTS ..
A reminder of what she achieved:
• Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%
• Basic rate: 33% → 25%
• Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)
• Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)
• Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third
• Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners
• Home ownership: 55% → 67%
• Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults
• Foreign holidays: roughly doubled
• Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten
• Pensioners' average incomes: up around 30% in real terms
• Infant mortality: down almost 40%
• Real GDP: up by almost a third
• GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s
• Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s
• Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million
• Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon
• Britain became a net oil exporter
• London restored as the world's financial capital in 1986
• Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90
• National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%
• State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%
• The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000
• Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms' rate: 42% → 25%
• Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms
• Higher rates of income tax: nine → one
• Death duties: fourteen rates → one
• Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years
• 40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector
• The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987
• British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)
• BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen
• "Tell Sid" broke the record again in 1986
• British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, "the world's favourite airline"
• The Channel Tunnel: launched — entirely privately financed
• The Falklands liberated in 74 days
• Fontainebleau, 1984: billions returned to Britain every year until Brexit
• Backed Gorbachev early, stood with Reagan, and won the Cold War
• Three consecutive election victories and the longest-serving PM of the twentieth century.
As regards achievements and stature there's not one Labour politican that's measures past her ankles.
In fact all the Labour politicians put together couldn't even come close to her downright honesty, bravery, nuance, statesmanship. In fact compared to Maggie Liebour are just a bunch of 5th rate toe rags!
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