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Quite the contrary.
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They undid the damage caused by state unions in the 70s who were demanding that the country subsidize the industries they failed to keep efficient and economically productive.
False. Thatcher and her ilk effectively butchered the trade unions (who are now finally starting to get back on their feet) and the industries that were subsidized actually not only kept wealth inside the UK, but also created wealth within it. She also helped destroy domestic coal mining and now the UK imports a vast majority of coal for energy consumption. You say it's to improve the environment? Not when you shift coal production to the other side of the planet and have to have it transported back.
This is why Thatcher was elected 3 times and in part why there is a McDonalds in Beijing and Moscow and the world is hurtling towards a global capitalist hegemony.
Yay! Let's make the rest of the world obese like the populations of the Anglosphere nations, and create a cultural corporate wasteland on a global scale! You Tories are so pig-headed and myopic that you don't comprehend the damage from the policies of your market gods and goddesses does to your country in your own backyard. You say, "Take a look around in the Real World™", my question to you is, "Have you?". It's evident once you see long-closed factories that used to manufacture things in the UK.