Thatcher's First Term Began Thirty Years Ago! That's Not AT ALL Remarkable...

I am so bored with the likes of the BBC and just about everybody else wittering on about Margaret Thatcher coming to power in 1979.

I mean PURLEASE! What was so remarkable? The only remarkable thing I can recall was the fact that she was a woman, Britain's first female PM. Labour and Tories were in and out like fiddlers' elbows in those days.

It was Thatcher's alliance with Reagan (elected in 1980), the Falklands (1982) and two subsequent re-elections that made her truly memorable. This attitude that 1979 was such a watershed is entirely inaccurate.

History is being rewritten.

And the changeable, turbulent years of Thatcher's reign dim beside the absurd assertion that a Conservative hegemony until 1990 was assured in 1979.