I wont lie, I am way too young to think about Thatcher etc, in that era though I did enjoy putting on the stringy material that was wrapped around oranges and pretending I was spiderman :)
Yes, they certainly do have serious blood on their hands. But before them was Thatcher and Reagan, the creation of homless begging on a much larger scale, the gutting ot the trade union movement, the taking of a huge number of council housing into the private market and away from those who needed them, the training of al quaeda militants on how to fly planes into tall buildings in a murdeous campaign in Afghanistan financed by the CIA and us etc etc etc.. I could go on and I could go further back.. I’ve never been complacent about the state of well-being in either of these countries… But there are many good things which have happened too, from medical advances to an increased respect for women and gays to the Internet etc etc Always a mix of good and bad….always will be. Just important to make sure the bad doesn’t get horrific and impossible..eg a Hitler.