We were warned. Jim Callaghan: "The question you will have to consider is whether we risk tearing everything up by the roots." Callaghan claimed a Conservative government "would sit back and just allow firms to go bankrupt and jobs to be lost in the middle of a world recession" and that the Conservatives were "too big a gamble to take". Plus Thatcher's denial that they'd double VAT (which only went up from 8% to 15%).An absolute fucking disgrace.
The reason that Thatcher came to power is because at the end of the 1970s the country was in a pretty sorry state, but it’s in a far worse place now.