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  Yes after 11 years in power, on this day in 1990, 28 November, Mrs Thatcher bid a tearful farewell from the steps of Downing St. She was its fair to say totally unloved by almost everyone at that stage, save from a true blue few . Even among her own party there was great relief at her departure. An era was over but an era unmissed.
  
  It was the time of greed. The time of the yuppie. The time of the city high flyer where the Porsche was king. But while many thrived, the great majority seemed to fall further and further behind. Like everyone else I had my snout in the bucket of gravy but was aware of the vast differences in society. The national assets were sold off to the few who could afford it, so the yuppies got even yuppier! and the rich got even richer. The miners were striking and all was turning very gloomy. The Unions were broken by legislation and then along came that curse of all political curses...The Poll Tax.
  
  This penalised those most who had least. There were, as an immediate consequence, very very unsavoury riots in the streets of London and anarchy was a real possibility. It was all too much, and Margaret Thatcher was finished off by a knife wielding figure from her own party, one young blade called Michael Heseltine.

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