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‘Thatcher’s Britain’Dr Robert Saunders
Queen Mary University of London
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Thatcher’s Britain:1975-1990
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‘I came into politics because of the conflict
between good and evil’
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Thatcher and Reagan
The Cold War: East v West
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THE NORTHERN IRELAND ‘TROUBLES’: 1968-1998
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THE BRIGHTON BOMBING, 12 October 1984
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The Three Day Week, 1974
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‘The Winter of Discontent, 1978-79’
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What’s 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!
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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
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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 other’s passivity and undermine each other’s 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’.
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The 1981 Riots
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The Miners’ Strike, 1984-85
‘The Battle of Orgreave’, June 1984
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Leadership Election, 1990
Michael Heseltine Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
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22 November 1990: Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation
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Poll Tax Riots1989-1990
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John Major (‘The Grey Man’)
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