Thumb - I hate to introduce a fact here. In late 1978, as a 22 year old my dh and I took his df to a major Liverpool to be admitted on 23rd Dec with a diagnosis of acute kidney failure. This was the NHS under Labour, OK? He was constipated.
Later on, in May the following year, after the General Election of May 1979, when the NHS was operating on a budget set by Labour for April 79-March 80, he was dying in a major Liverpool hospital. He weighed less than 8 stone and they were convinced he had cancer due to the weight loss. He thought the hospital was wonderful. So wonderful that his evening meal consisted of a greasy sausage roll - the only choice. Wonderful nutrition or cheap crap?
In 1976 I worked in a factory as a student. The boyfriend of one person worked in a hospital kitchen and ran a mobile chicken and chips business on the side. He didn't pay for any of the supplies - they all were stolen from the hospital kitchens.
In 1975, my then bf was a student nurse in a psychiatric hospital. Despite there only being 2 of us booked in for lunch in the nurses' home on the Saturday, the cook had catered for at least 10. When I wanted to have a third potato croquette, he told me that the cook would be cross because she took the left-overs home to feed her family.
Both my parents were born in mining communities - Coppull with a ring spinning mill and a coal mine and Sunderland Co Durham, their parents moved because of work which is how they met in Liverpool.
My gps came from Douglas, Bradford, Middlesborough and Norfolk. Again, they moved because of work.
My dh grew up in a terraced house, with bed-bugs and a toilet at the bottom of the yard. They drank out of jam jars when they didn't have any cups. Anything they had was pawned. They were well off enough to be asked to contribute to his student grant, but refused as they were indignant at being asked to keep their son. They complained to me about his grant not being enough to pay their bills.
My father remembered earth-closets and the 'midnight midden' men, and his parents losing house after house due to the illegal practice of 'key money' meaning that the person who paid the landlord the highest bribe got the tenancy.
On the other hand MT realised that you cannot spend your way out of debt. Many mocked her for her housewifely approach to government spending, but she was conscious of one very important thing. Governments have NO money, only that which they raise in taxation. Excessive public spending only leads to misery as it is unsustainable in the long-term.
Those who wish to do so can believe that Brown has saved the world and can walk on water...
....Hitler had much the same delusions, too. The far left and the far right have much in common, something that neither care to acknowledge.