Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
Wrong. Approval of society was once social glue. Form and protocol was just an outward form of that, a way for people to share the experience. Form and protocol still exists, but the desire to be approved by society, which was what held society together, has gone. Thatcher was the reformer who destroyed that, and replaced it with the neo-liberal outlook which is now the political norm. She encouraged Britain to show more energy, but it's come at the expense of social coherence, something she was quite aware of and willing to accept.
I would agree with that assesment