The competing ideology is the political necessity to at least appear to match the quality of public services with which most people are now familiar in the rest of Europe beyond the fairly devastated United Kingdom that was left after Mrs. Thatcher's reign in which public services were severely damaged. All over the rest of northern Europe, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Austria – not Switzerland because it is unique – have similar views. The first is that a country must manage its economy with great efficiency. The second is that it must, through a broadly-based fair taxation system, use the resources of that economy to deliver services that make people feel that the efficiencies of the economy serve a purpose.