1. Margaret Thatcher.

2. Labour couldn't win an election.

3. Putting the Unions back in their box.

4. Enabling millions of people to buy shares for the first time.

5. A-ha & Alphaville.

6. Audi Quattros.

7. Ejecting the Argentinians from the Falklands.

8. Enabling hundreds of thousands of people to buy their own homes.

9. Ronald Reagan & Mikhail Gorbachev.

10. The Mullett.

11. Ian Botham

12. Airplane.

13. Trevor Brooking & Alan Devonshire, Tony Cottee & Frank McAvennie.

14. Winning the Cold War.

15. Trivial Pursuit.

16. Beating Scargill and his band of thugs.

17. J R Ewing.

18. Nena's 99 Luftballons and her hairy armpits.

19. The Conservatives winning three elections in a row.

20. The advent of Sky TV.