Getting started: Triple-dip recession; Does it all lead back to Thatcher?

A revolutionary series of events in the 60s

The deindustrialisation of Britain began during the 1960s and, during the 1970s, was championed by the conservative Government and their then leader; Margaret Thatcher. Deindustrialisation is the absolute decline of employment in the manufacturing sector[1], a notion that at first glance seems regressive of the economy; so why was it desirable?