Under Thatcher (and i mean this literally, there was no public influence of what was done in #10) it was decided that all real production was to be killed and the rest privatized, and the working sector was told to get lost, the rest to cut each other's hair and make a living out of that.
(Sorry Jim
, i was in England at that time and it was not pretty)
How anyone can support this is beyond me. But hey there are russians who support Putin, so why not.