I was i the mining districts when thatcher went to war with them. I experienced the police paid vast amounts in wages become thugs and behave like their compatriots in Pinochets Chile. (He was a very close friend of thatcher although a murdering thug himself.) I remember the miner who said "The police sirens going through our quiet village in the middle of the night to terrorise us had no effect. The sound of batons hitting the shiels and the crunch of their boots as they marched to the pits did not frighten us. It was the sound of the ice-cream van and the look on the kids faces that hurt."
thatcher said their was nothing such as society and then set about destroying it wherever it raised its head.