What a sad, inaccurate and over-written letter from Malcolm Glynn (‘Nation honoured lady for a reason, Your Views, August 28).
He omits in his list of achievements of Margaret Thatcher that:
1. The “other industries” created by her policy of closing coal mines included the decimation of the industrial economy of cars, bikes, machine tools and clothing upon which Great Britain had thrived since the industrial revolution.
2. “Enabling the working man to get on the housing ladder and earn money” rings hollow to the mass of the unemployed created by her policies.
3. Embroilment in the illegal war in the Falklands was surely Margaret Thatcher’s achievement, not that of Tony Blair?
She was indeed a determined and forceful lady, and this is well remembered.
Keith Martin
Friern Park, Friern Barnet
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