PD polices were vintage Thatcher

I WISH to take up the challenge of Michael Burns (Letters, July 24) to name five PD policies which could be described as Thatcherite.

Mr Burns offers a bottle of wine for each one named, so here goes:

1. The PDs were the strongest advocates of the privatisation of State companies such as Eircom and Aer Lingus. This mirrored exactly Margaret Thatcher’s privatisation of British Telecom and British Airways, with similarly disastrous consequences there and here.