History I lived through

The stuff about Thatcher made me realise as I get older that history I lived through is being misrepresented. OK it's an obvious point. I don't care, this blog is for me - not anyone else.

Classic and Sportscar had an article about the Jensen Interceptor in which they claimed the three day week of 1974 was a problem presided over by a Labour Government. It wasn't, but my letter pointing this out was ignored. Like much of the motoring (and other press) they seek to rewrite recent history so Labour governments were always villanous and Tory ones brave and noble. "Yeah right" as the popular vernacular has it.

In "This Sceptred Isle" the coking works at the centre of an infamous bitter pitched battle during the last miner's strike is referred to as Orgeave, when in fact it was Orgreave, as any local (and plently of non-locals like me) would doubtless have known.

Mrs Thatcher cut taxes

Except she didn't:

'The tax burden peaked under the 1974/79 Labour government, fell under Lady Thatcher and is now set to go back to its previous late seventies peaks.' This apparently plausible statement suffers from only one drawback: it is completely wrong.
Maurice Fitzpatrick, Accountancy Age, 04 Jul 2003

Why can't conservatives seem to get their facts right?

Any time I read something like this I wait for their well argued critique. In vain. The author claims that the Dome was like this:

it involves wasting a vast amount of tax payers money organising a party designed to get Labour re-elected. They have done it before and we are still paying for the Dome to this day.

My recollection is that the millennium Dome was funded by the Lottery, indeed, according to this:

Michael Heseltine, the politician who arguably did most to get the Dome built, argued this week that the £628m of lottery money spent on the Dome should be seen in the context of the nearly £9 billion raised for good causes since 1994

Just remind me which party Hesseltine is in?