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  I am definitely with Marek on this one and I think it would be difficult to find any of Roger's 100 reasons in her favour that did not rely on statistics the counting of which were altered while she was in office. The method of counting unemployment was changed so many times it is now almost impossible to get a true figure. The other great fiasco, poll tax, had been abandoned by every other country, except Papua New Guinea which was in the process of phasing it out when Maggie introduced it here. The destruction of the building industry as a by-product of 'right to buy' by forbidding councils using the revenue to build more homes still effects us today, as does the tax on refurbishment making it cheaper to demolish and rebuild.
  It is still a fact that she took power following a poster campaign showing queue's of unemployed and saying that 3/4 of a million was too many and then, a few years later was claiming success in getting it down to 3 million.

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