Where do you stand?

So - while I was away, the obvious big story was the death of Margaret Thatcher, and the description of her which kept cropping up was "divisive".  Well she sure divided our house.  My wife never forgave her for - as she saw it - destroying the industrial West Midlands as the manufacturing heartland (or at least one of them) of the country, and you can certainly still drive round here, particularly in the West Bromwich-Dudley-Wolverhampton area and see whole tracts of wasteland where there were once thriving factory estates.  Me?  I  perhaps took a rather more pragmatic approach of being thankful that we at last had a government who were prepared to take on the powerful unions who, in my book at least, were far more responsible for the decline in local industry by making unreasonable wage demands which priced our goods out of the market.  There is so much that one could say, but I think that it is at least arguable that Thatcher was the product of a situation of economic decline rather than the cause of it.