Bonnie, it is nescient to suggest that Mrs Thatcher was a bad Prime Minister. On the contrary, she was a phenomemal Prime Minister. She did more for the working classes than any socialist ever did. The Right to Buy scheme allowed the working classes to buy their first home at a massive discount. The main policy aim of her first administration was to cut inflation, which hits the working classes more than the rich. The destruction of the manufacturing industries was a necessary action. She was a firm believer in the power of the individual over the state, and a proponent of personal financial autonomy. She cut the top rate of tax from 80% to 40%, and the bottom rate from 30% to 23%. She said that people should be allowed to keep the money they have worked for. She will be remembered as a great Prime Minister. She allowed capitalism to breath, and she did a great deal towards the destruction of the evil that is socialism.
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