You mean Tories stopped the madness of left-wing politics, when the rubbish was not cleaned from streets, factoring working for 3 days only to conserve electricity because of miners strikes (before Thatcher), graves not dug etc.?
If anything, it is the Corbyn’s old Labour and Trade Union idiocy needs to be blamed for what state the country got into by 1979, that only Margaret Thatcher’s decisiveness managed to save the country.
And no, the jobs that went were not that great. Can you imaging majority of those miner’s children to actually work in coal mines? Certainly not. Polish immigrants — may be, but not those who still might vote Labour because their father’s mine was closed.
As of spending on military — again left-wingers can’t count. Military spending is very low at the moment. If you shut fire every soldier you still would not solve all your problems. But you will definitely leave the country open for external aggression (the only reason that the UK still exists is the USA military involvement in Europe, whether you like them or not — otherwise USSR would make it a “Communist Paradise” long time ago). And whether the USA is going to continue this policy or not is questionable (reducing the military budget will only give then a good excuse to decide not to waste their money).
