(30 Oct 2014, 9:50 am)marxistafozzski wrote Struggling to adapt is an understatement, this area, especially, has struggled every day for the last 30 years, I say we pretty much lost everything
The crux of it was, that Thatcher thought that private enterprise would step in.
In a boom and bust economy, there was only going to be one outcome for the people and the communities.
Even Nissan have struggled at times - so not sure how she thought a smaller organisation or even a start up would last.
Unless she wanted the North East to go through the 'managed decline', that was proposed for Liverpool...