“Mrs T had a vision and she went for it. I have respect for that.
However the vision she had was so off the mark and centred on individual responsibility that it became a vision for personal greed.
Let me explain.
As an individual it is up to me to get a job, to invest for my future, it is up to me to pay for my childrens education.
All of this means that people focus on themselves and their own situation - "the end of society".

Back in 1979 there was a difference between the two parties - Proper socialism vs free market.

Now there is very little fundamental difference between the two parties it is the likes of Fox hunting which do make a big difference between Labour and the Conservatives.

For radical change you really have to look to Lib Dems. They were not in their current form as a political party in 1979 - so they should be the choice for real change.

I am not a Lib Dem member and only vote tactically for them. However this time round I think it might be time to vote for them for what they propose not for wanting to not let the Conservatives in.

Ah, Exeter - Lib dems won't win, so it's back to keeping the Tories out again.”

“I agree with you, Paul. I wonder if it was Cameron's advice that led Norman Lamont to tell us all that "unemployment is a price worth paying".”

“It was interesting to read in The Morning Star letters page that the BBC is not going interupt its broadcasting when Mrs Thatcher pases on. Then the cheers from many communities will be heard even as far as the West Country who hardly had to put up with her kind of humilty .”

“I remember the tough action taken by Thatcher every time I get a bill for gas, electricity or water.
I remember it every time I see a once great British industry closed down by it's foreign owners.
I think back to the joys of home grown recessions, interest rates at 15% and the falling pound with billions spent trying to support it.
Finally, I remember the wonderfull Tories when I look at the current financial crisis which was aided by their deregulation of the sector.
Good times”

“I watched David Cameron¿s interview on ITV, last night, he came across as a Public Relations executive of a media company which is in fact the only work he has carried out except politics.

Sun business editor Ian King, recalling the same era, described Mr Cameron as a "poisonous, slippery individual"

Jeff Randall, writing in The Daily Telegraph where he is a senior executive, said he would not trust Mr Cameron "with my daughter's pocket money".

Cameron¿s previous political experience was as special advisor to the discredited Norman Lamont, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer. To the now Lord Lamont¿s credit he says that many his actions in the 1990s were wrong. I wonder many of these policies came from his Special Advisor

Would you buy a used car from this man? NO.

In 2002 Ashcroft put in writing his "solemn and binding undertakings" in a memo to the Tory leader: "I hereby give you my clear and unequivocal assurance that I have decided to take up permanent residence in the UK again before the end of this calendar year.¿ We are still waiting.”