Actually I lived and worked all the way through the Thatcher era. TBH it was not especially intolerant nor as right wing as made out. The NHS received adequate funding and little political interferance. After some early glitches the state owned railway was receiving the investment that would have taken it into profit have not Major's government stopped that investment continuing because of his fixation with the barmy privatisation. Scargill had been neutralised. The New Labour government was not particularly tolerant, its big error was getting deeply mired in the very costly Iraq war in a place that had little relevance to the intersts of the UK.