if you saw how much of a shithole wales, scotland, northern ireland, yorkshire, lancashire, or pretty much anywhere in the uk other than the home counties is you wouldn't think that anymore
>but how can one lady do all that
the post war concensus ending under her and the subsequent half century of neo-liberal policies did that, because she was the one who brought it in she's the one who gets the hate for it

>>18613629
Spoiled bitch ass niggas will live in one of the most prosperous first world countries and call it a shithole because some mines in Yorkshire closed o algo. Come on

>but Labour closed more mines!
Yeah. Slowly. And with a plan in place for what the miners are going to do next.

>>18613636
>prosperity extends to the northern crash barrier of the M25 and no further
Without London the UK is one of the poorest counties in Europe.

>>18613636
True, but there's a difference between going from
>favela slum to identical favela slum
and
>first world country with no pot holes, excellent infrastructure, all utilities work well
to
>first world country but now the roads are shit, there are no buses, trains are now prohibitively expensive AND late as shit due to privatization, water companies are dumping literal shit in the oceans and causing rampsnt disease you can't get a doctors appointment to be cured of, also no one has a decent job apart from the select few that got jobs in "services" but equally are in crippling university debt for life
im not denying britain is still better than 90% of the world, but it's also considerably worse than it was back then

>>18613629
They're nice places to live and much better than they were in the 1970s. And they would be much worse off if uncompetitive nationalised industries were perpetually subsidised by the state.

>>18613643
>with a plan in place for what the miners are going to do next.
May I see it?

>>18613636
Mississippi’s people, in America’s poorest state, are on average wealthier compared to a Brit. UK used to have a comparable standard of living. Now UK is politically and economically backwards, falling behind other parts rest of the developed world.