Thatcher's Incomprehension

Recent archive releases show once again Margaret Thatcher's blank incomprehension of parts of the UK outside Middle England.  It actually rather suits separatists like the Sinn Fein in those days or the SNP now to have governments in London that don't understand anywhere else.  That is  why I don't believe the SNP's claims that they don't want a Tory government.  They would actually much prefer a Tory government to a Labour one.