PowerPoint on the fourth module of the A Level History course The Making of Modern Britain. This includes all the information necessary to obtain confidence on the section, giving details on the political, cultural, social, and economic changes from . The PowerPoint is 56 slides, giving a full over...
Britain 1951-2007
Impact of Thatcherism (1979-1987)
, Thatcher’s style of leadership
Conviction politician: • Thatcherism can be seen more of a style rather than a
someone who follows ideology.
policies based on their • Thatcher described herself as a ‘conviction politician’.
own beliefs. E.g.. • Thatcher was dismissive of the PWC- saw it as respon
Section 28 (forbade Britain’s ills.
promotion of • Resolutely middle class.
homosexuality) • Put an emphasis on order- nuclear family.
• Populist- strive to appeal to the popular choice.
1981 party conference:
• Self reliance and self improvement lay at the heart of
“You turn if you want
to- the lady’s not for • Outsider, even though she went to Oxford and becam
turning” lawyer- not traditionally Conservative in background.
• Suburban, from trade, and a woman.
, Thatcher’s ideology
John Ranelagh,
Thatcherite in 1970s
• Influenced by other intellectuals in the Conservati
research theory: party.
“Thatcher herself • Thatcherism was based on some traditional Conse
was not an thinking by some intellectuals (e.g., Powell) and so
intellectual, but she her own instincts.
respected intellect
• Heavily influenced by ”New Right” think tanks.
and looked for it in
her people” • Thatcherites were supportive of the police and to
law-and-order issues.
Think tanks:
Organization that
• By the mid 80s, this led to accusations that the po
researches potential were becoming ’politicized’.
policies
, New
Right
Tebbit’s • New Right’s analysis of Britain’s economic decline mea
beliefs- that they rejected Keynesianism economics in favor of
Individuals monetarism and free markets.
should take
• Thatcherites viewed Britain’s economic decline as a
responsibility
for their own
result of the failures of the successive post-war
actions. governments.
• Lecture to the Disraeli society 1985- Tebbit said that
“the trigger of today’s outburst of crime and violence
lies in the era and attitudes of post-war funk which ga
birth to the permissive society”.
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