Another cost socially;

Source: some bloke

Thatcher's 1981 Regulation 909 gave education authorities the right to sell school land that they considered surplus to their requirements.
Over the next decade an estimated 5,000 playing fields were sold, many converted to housing developments, supermarkets or car parks.

Thatcher's supporters would blame instead a decline in competitive sports. Other, wider forces were also at work - the rise of computer gaming, a society-wide increase in sedentary lifestyles.
Whatever the cause, a survey by the Secondary Heads Association showed that the proportion of pupils under 14 spending less than two hours a week in physical education rose from 38% to 71% between 1987 and 1990.
By the end of the Conservative hegemony in 1997, that figure had crept above 75%.

Big chest and massive boobs

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I can assure you that those close to Margaret Thather would state categorically that the great lady was certainly NOT devoid of emotion and humanity.

Margaret Thatcher took some painful and necessary decisions that shifted the political 'Gravity' in Great Britain and the Left will NOT forgive her for proving them wrong.She had the courage to introduce radical policies which were necessary to transform a very 'Sick' Britain.

Never understood this argument, it's not like the playing fields are cramped with queues of kids waiting for their chance to play football / rugby / hockey.

I think you will find that the changes in the curriculum had a far bigger impact

Balderdash.

Before Margaret Thatcher came to power one could hear adults express the sentiments “Britain is finished”.

In fact, such sentiments were understandable. These were the years of the three-day week, of prices and incomes policies, of double-digit inflation, of constant strikes, of power cuts. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the United Kingdom had been outperformed by every European economy. “Britain is a tragedy – it has sunk to borrowing, begging, stealing until North Sea oil comes in,” said Henry Kissinger. The Wall Street Journal was blunter: “Goodbye, Great Britain: it was nice knowing you”.

Thank goodness for a Prime Minister who patently refused to accept such decline and had the courage to make tough decisions to put the 'Great' back into 'Great Britain'.

Interesting that Russell B refers to Darwinism, as her philosophy can be traced back (remember Victorian Values?) to Herbert Spencer and other Social Darwinists who tried to hijack Darwin's genius for their own selfish political ends. Darwin was dismissive of their ham-fisted attempts to use his work to justify everything from Napoleon Bonaparte to the rogue shopkeeper with his thumb on the scales.
Also he was using "fittest" in the sense of "best suited" to a particular evolutionary role and applies to everything – from bacteria to plants to huge mammals. Nothing to do with bodybuilding with your Tory chums down the gym before heading back to the estate agency in your Hoxton fin and Burton's suit, hoping to cream off another commission. Sorry to disappoint.

Liberated from their unions, straight to the dole queue via redundency. Great achievement. Whilst many got to own their own homes, the housing boom resulted in a ecconomic nightmare when the bubble burst, leaving many with negative equity.

Some progressed and benefitted greatly, but in doing so far more were left behind.

The privisation and sell off of the council properties essentially removed a market stabaliser in rental and housing prices, that is still being felt today. Sure people could buy their own house, but their children will now struggle to do the same.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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