Neil Marten recognised it was an impossible job. Outspent and outgunned, it was also a divided campaign as relations between the combined anti-market organisations deteriorated. Nonetheless, he received great respect afterwards, Harold Wilson amongst those paying tribute to his leadership.
The NTB were the brains trust of late term Thatcherism. Other groups, notably the 92, were the foot soldiers. What the NTB did was to provide the intellectual drive to keep Thatcherism going.