 The Final Cut was about how , with the introduction of the Welfare State , we felt we were moving forward into something resembling a liberal country where we would all look after one another ... but I 'd seen all that chiselled away , and I 'd seen a return to an almost Dickensian society under Margaret Thatcher . I felt then , as now , that the British government should have pursued diplomatic avenues , rather than steaming in the moment that task force arrived in the South Atlantic . 
