The BBC has produced a interactive game with Margaret Thatcher's reign's economic stats including a chart with champagne imports 1979 to 1990. Smoking down. Foreign holidays up.
Remember 25% inflation? Hokey-kabokie! The only upside for me in that was it was undergrad and at the beginning of the term when there was lots of grant money in the bank the monthly interest paid for certain optional necessities which came in brown bottles.
Comments
Ale Fan - November 22, 2005 9:16 AM
The only thing to remember is that there are lies, damn lies and statistics.
Alan - November 22, 2005 9:42 AM
Iteresting to note that the government deficit/surplus was not a stat.
Mike - November 22, 2005 9:43 AM
Brown stubby bottles, if I recall.
Alan - November 22, 2005 9:47 AM
...in a 2x6 box. Those boxes were the best. Shoulder slung, held there just with your thumb.
Marian - November 22, 2005 10:55 AM
Housing prices went way way up while most people's income stayed the same.
David Janes - November 22, 2005 12:25 PM
Funny that they measure unemployment as millions of people, rather than as % of population.