Oh dear...

Kezia's taking a hammering on this, but JuanKerr has cracked me up with this.

You base your assumption on miss quoted articles which go onto deride Thatcher in the next paragraph.

With obfuscating tactics like this it is no wonder people trust Labour about as much as Gary Glitter in a creche.

"ID: Ten years ago, the Conservatives were seen as a terrible enemy by the SNP, and they saw you as very left-wing. It seems to me that you have tried to change that, and create a big tent for the SNP.
AS: I suppose I have tried to bring the SNP into the mainstream of Scotland. We have a very competitive economic agenda. Many business people have warmed towards the SNP. We need a competitive edge, a competitive advantage - get on with it, get things done, speed up decision making, reduce bureaucracy. The SNP has a strong social conscience, which is very Scottish in itself. One of the reasons Scotland didn't take to Lady Thatcher was because of that. We didn't mind the economic side so much. But we didn't like the social side at all.
ID: Doesn't that illustrate the problem, that Scotland is seen as having quite a big public sector and, as the country of Adam Smith, it is no longer seen as the country of enterprise?
AS: I think that betrays Adam Smith. He was not just a friend of economics. He was a moral philosopher. Margaret Thatcher could have only ever read the Penguin edition of Wealth of Nations and she missed out the moral sentiments. I would absolutely defend the reputation of Adam Smith against the Adam Smith Institute. I said to Eamonn Butler [Deputy Director of the ASI], if Adam Smith could sue, you'd be in real trouble."

How can that be support for thatcher?

All you have done on your party is show Scotland how devious, 2 faced and double speaked your blinkered party are.

Alex Salmond is right on 1 thing. The Tories ARE proving themselves more grown up on issues affecting the people of Scotland. Whereas your party wishes to use anything to do it down.

Ouch!