The Milk Snatcher cut off a leg to fix an ingrowing toe nail.
I only know what I have seen from that time to the present and comparing it with previous Thatcher days in fact only this morning the number of able bodied men pouring into the job centre as it opened up had to be seen to be believed. Thatcher = beggers on the street and poor homeless people , a very good TV play at the time was called "Gives A Job" that expressed the mood in the country well depending which part of the country you lived in.
We don't have Proportional Representation in the UK which means it's not a true democracy the Tories have many elected MPs representing small numbers of people in their constituencies and if they get in power it becomes the case that that the minority rule over the majority.