>But Thatcher had no special hold over the working classes. The fault was
>in the opposition, and its exhausted political programme. Of course, it
>was much easier to believe in the superhuman powers of Margaret Thatcher
>than to address those failings...
Well, as (Sir) Alan Walters said, Thatcher's most lasting achievement was the transformation of the Labour Party. What *does* have a special hold over the British working class in 1999?
Doug