Unravelling Britain: Thatcher and Thatcherism (Dr Robert Saunders)

The kind people have a wonderful dream/ Margaret on

the Guillotine. Because people like you make me feel so
tired. When will you die? When will you die? Make the
dream real (Margaret on the Guillotine,
Morrissey)

When they finally put you in the ground, Ill stand on

your grave and tramp the dirt down (Tramp the
Dirt Down, Elvis Costello)
Stand Down Margaret (The Beat)
The Day that Thatcher Dies (Hefner)
Thatcher F***ed the Kids (Frank
Turner)

THE BRIGHTON BOMBING, 12

October 1984

I came into politics because of

the conflict
between good and evil

The Cold War: East v West

Thatcher and Reagan

Womens
Liberation

We do not intend to ask for anything. We intend to stand firm and assert our
basic rights. If this involves violence, it will not be we who initiate this, but
those who attempt to stand in our way to freedom (Gay Liberation Front

Mary Whitehouse: Clean Up

Television

Race Relations

The Three Day Week, 1974

The Winter of

Margaret Thatcher: The

Housewife in Politics

Whats wrong with

Britain?
1. The state was
too big
2. Trade Unions
were too powerful
3. Something had
gone wrong with
the national
character
SOCIALISM!

North Sea Oil Production

The Gang of Four: Bill Rodgers, David Owen, Roy Jenkins

and Shirley Williams

What to do next?
1. Tax Cuts: Top rate of income
tax halved (83p to 40p); basic
rate down from 33p to 35p

2. Privatisation: British Gas,

British Coal, British Telecom
etc
3. Cuts in public spending
especially subsidies to
industry
4. Reform of Trade Union law:
7 new Trade Union Acts

The 1981

Thatcher on Council
Housing
council estates bring together
people who are out of work but
enjoy security of tenure at
subsidized rents. They not only
have every incentive to stay where
they are: they mutually reinforce
each others passivity and
undermine each others initiative.
Thus a culture grows up in which
the unemployed are content to
remain living mainly on the state
with little will to move and find
work.

Thatcher on
Privatisation
Privatisation was fundamental
to improving Britains economic
performance. But for me, it was
far more than that: it was about
reversing the corrupting and
corrosive effects of socialism.
Privatisation is at the heart of
any programme of reclaiming
territory for freedom.

The Miners Strike, 1984-85

The Battle of Orgreave, June 1984

Poll Tax
Riots
19891990

John Major (The Grey

Man)

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in

Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level (The
Bruges Speech , 1988)

Leadership Election, 1990

Michael Heseltine

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle

22 November 1990: Margaret Thatcher announces

her resignation

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