20 years of pain and misery was worth it in the long run, eh? "Yes it hurt, yes it worked" - my a***. What was done for the people who lost their livelihoods at the time? Or did that not matter because their children would eventually get jobs? Where we were in '97 was a different matter. I don't happen to think Thatcher's policies could have been reversed. But the South-East would never have been made to suffer the way other parts of the country were. And I meant despicable as in "morally reprehensible" were you living in Liverpool in the 80s, by the way?