An article in the Daily Telegraph yesterday by that doyen of British journalism, Charles Moore illustrated that she too actually believed in 'central control' - aka, politicians know best.
Charles Moore writes:
"The idea behind the drama is the belief, her belief, that the people without much power – the “workers not the shirkers”, small-businessmen, housewives (to use a word deployed at that time without embarrassment) – can do great things if only you let them." (Emphasis mine)
If only you let them? If only someone who, in my earlier state of ignorance, I admired, had seen fit to realise that there is a better way..........