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Summary Thatcherism
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Covers the premiership of Margret Thatcher from Includes: Society in the 1970s, Foreign Affairs under Thatcher and Thatchers Government and ideologies
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Thatcher called her detractors‘wets’ and her supporters ‘dries’ Wets dries
In touch with middle- some people in the party were -Willie Whitelaw -Geoffrey Howe
class values very supportive of New Right -Jim Prior -Nigel Lawson
Self-reliance rather than Emphasised the ideas and breaking with the -Michael Hestletine -Norman Tebbit
Critical of post war importance of the PWC
reliance on the state Support & opposition
consensus family
Som
Over the course of her
From 1979 Thatcher
Disliked the ‘permissive government, dries came to
Character and ideology N ensured that key
dominate the cabinet some Wets
society’
economic posts were
·
were demoted and sacked
free market was held by her supporters. There was no end to the
Supportive of
superior to government Troubles in Northern Ireland
monetarist economic
Backed policies which intervention talks between the British and Irish
policies
strengthened law and governments culminated in the
The SDP was formed in Jan 1981
Kinnock set about modernising Anglo-Irish Agreement, this was
by four Labour Party politicians: order
the Labour party and changed supported by SDLP & the alliance The row over the status of
Thatcherism 79-87
Jenkins, Owen, Williams and the party was rejected both
unpopular issues at 1983
Rodgers. the Thatcherite IRA prisoners continued,
election
Conservative Party and the hunger strikes began in 1980
left-wing Labour Party. at the 1983 general A
Labour divisions election, Michael Foot
Bobby Sands, stood in a
there were also political
SDP the Alliance seemed to be a resigned as leader and by-election, won the seat, Northern Ireland Troubles
more credible opposition to
developments, the
was replaced by Neil gained public support for
the Conservative government Kinnock took on and Kinnock.
Republican movement
Owen of the SDP and David the strikers
than the Labour Party defeated the Left extremists began to see the value of
Steel of the Liberal Party such as Militant Tendency
came together to form the an electoral strategy
who were expelled from the Sands died a few weeks
Divided opposition
i
SDP-Liberal Alliance, worked party in 1986.
Michael Foot seen The Conservatives’ later, 9 other prisoners IRA ‘spectacular’ October
together in 1983+87
election as a weak leader record in office died before protests were 1984: the Grand Hotel in
called off in 1981 Brighton bombed during the
The Labour Party
Success in the electoral success Press support
Conservative Party
seemed to have lost Falklands Conflict
Labour could no longer assume conference
touch with ordinary Demographic Changes that its traditional voters would 1987 election
people those who died became IRA
continue to support it 1983 election & The Labour Party’s
Press support for the ↓ The first-past-the- martyrs
some Labour voters disliked reputation
Conservatives post electoral system
the domination of the Left so The decline of the
The trade unions Thatcher was uninjured but
were no longer seen
turned to the SDP Alliance Thatcher appealed to Thatcher seen as strong Alliance Tension within the
some of the working five people were killed.
as a strength leader able to take tough Withdrawal from EEC Alliance
class
decisions
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