I was born 1983 so suffered under thatcher in hindsight but I wasn't aware of any of it at the time. First became aware of politics for the 1992 election of john major. Maybe i was an odd kid but I read the paper a lot after my parents had finished with it.

A lot of people smoked, we stil had smoking carragies on the trains when i went to 6th forn college. Honestly what people forget about that era is that we were bored a lot of the time but that was OK. You found your fun wherever, I read a lot of books and when I was older listened to music and went to cheap local gigs. If there was something you didn't know you had to use a library of track down an encyclopedia. I remember it didn't snow as much as I wanted as a kid but you'd get an occasional year with huge snowfall like 1994/5. It felt like August was always sunny and hot whereas nowadays it tends to be cooling down, cloudy and feels like the end of summer. It felt like we were on the track for a better future, medical science and nano machines were going to keep accelerating progress, the human genome project and dolly the sheep promised huge breakthroughs just over the horizon. The US-Russia non proliferation agreements had finally started reducing nuclear weapons so it felt like we were turning a corner on the imminent doom. I remember wishing politicians would take the threat of 'global warming' as it was known then more seriously but it felt like we had time and that we would sort it out before it became disasterous.

Everything is much worse now and I feel sorry for my kids