We have sacrificed the car industry (£20bn per year), Creative Arts (£200bn per year) and a host of others so we can catch more fish (£1.6bn per year). Last country to follow such a great operating model was Cambodia under Pol Pot (who Thatcher was a big fan of).
Thatcher and Reagan supported the Khmer Rouge as members of the UN *after* they had been ousted from power and the atrocities of the Killing Fields was public knowledge. They preferred them to the "communists" that took power with the help of Vietnam.
I hold Thatcher 100% to blame for the state of our society today. Her bilious rhetoric has spawned generations of self-centred entitled morons.
I've compiled a list of entities to blame for this mess, ahead of the Conservative Party: The EU Remoaners Labour Jeremy Corbyn Immigrants Anymore for anymore?
I think you can. Thatcher ran down manufacturing (including fishing) industries in favour of promoting services like banking and insurance. The service industries formed 55% of our trade with the EU. The UK fishing industry now only contributes 0.1% to the country's economy.