Visit a station and notice the plethora of competing train companies, replacing the single British Rail that operated in the pre-Thatcher days the fruit of a rail privatisation that was not hers, but was made possible only by the serial privatisations she had pioneered and made normal. In January 1983 she You can get the Turnitin report from the writer on request along with the final deliverable. The Thatcher government believed that the criminalisation of the republican prisoners would break the republican struggle. Rather, she was a classic example of a certain kind of conservative woman who believed that all women should pull themselves up just as she had done, conveniently overlooking that not all women are blessed with the privileges that had been available to her, such as a wealthy and supportive husband and domestic help. successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to This, too, we still live with. drew an important moral from the Falklands war: "We have ceased to But it was the killing of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane in February 1989 that reveals the depth of the Thatcher government's state collusion policy. . In rich societies such as the UK, what makes most difference to the real quality of our lives is the quality of community life and social interaction. No gloves, or hats, except for royalty or at funerals, but feet on the table, whisky glass at hand, into the small hours of solitude, for want of male cronies in the masculine world she dominated for all her 11yearsin power.
Margaret Thatcher: sitcom star - British Comedy Guide Perhaps Labour would benefit from another defeat, given the danger of taking power unprepared and turning into a zombie government, like the tragedy unfurling in France. The Independent has the story. a new dominance from Brussels", the I'd unthinkingly imbibed enough doctrine to know that, troubled as I was, there was little point looking elsewhere for support. as far as can be known. In a break with tradition and protocol, Reagan decided he'd also attend the "return dinner" at the British Embassy the next evening. I don't see that. He was a political and historical figure and the need to accurately portray his legacy and prevent misleading hagiography easily outweighed precepts of death etiquette that prevail when a private person dies. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing, and Literature Religion and Spirituality Science Tabletop Games . Thatcher is remembered for her achievements, but more for a presence, which was wrapped up with being a woman. "What's going on there, mate?" . making her big speech the following day as scheduled. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.". The last time I met her was after all this was over. These values were the exact opposite of those Margaret Thatcher espoused. The great contradiction in her politics was that someone who yearned for the certainties of small-town shopkeeper economics helped create the amoral yuppiedom of 80s excess and an explosion of cultural resistance that is still an ironic positive legacy of her time in power. But she exploited her luck. Privatisation did not feature in the Conservative election campaign, while the tougher approach to trade union reform had only really become evident since the winter of discontent, and even then was a gradual process. North sea oil was squandered when it should have seeded new industries. It was sad that she had to learn it in war, a grim example to her British and US successors.
Great speeches: Margaret Thatcher | World | The Guardian A friend of South African apartheid and mass murderers from Kissinger and Pinochet to the Khmer Rouge after they had killed two million Cambodians she was a zealous saleswoman for the arms industry. declared that she wanted our money back. I grew up in Essex with a single mum and a go-getter Dagenham dad. Norman Tebbit, one of Thatcher's acolytes and fellow "Munsters evacuee", said when the National Union of Mineworkers eventually succumbed to the military onslaught and starvation over which she presided: "We didn't just break the strike, we broke the spell." A splendid synergy was created, deliberately and with just that in mind on both sides of the Atlantic. Ultimately, despite the despondent times of the Cold War and the waning confidence of the citizens, Margaret Thatcher delivered her eulogy speech in belief of President Ronald Reagan and used the rhetorical appeals of pathos, imagery, metaphor, and ethos to accomplish his presidency as successful. In this eulogy, Thatcher uses rhetorical strategies to convince her readers into believing what she states. That was the daunting task Margaret Thatcher set herself when she arrived in Downing Street in May 1979 at the end of a traumatic decade that had seen a three-day week, inflation topping 25%, a bailout from the International Monetary Fund and the winter of discontent. Now it was the turn of the words, and no one, of course, would, against all the odds, do them better than the lady who, 25 years before, once thought the sky was beyond her limit. In 1984 Britain had 186 working coalmines and approximately 170,000 coalminers. On June 11th, 2004 Margaret Thatcher gave a speech to the American people at Ronald Reagan's funeral. We still live in the land Margaret built. An unclubbable outsider, she allied herself to another outsider, Keith Joseph, and his free-market set. the British Embassy in Paris and stated In fact, several countries have adopted these ideas with startlingly successful results; just changing the wording on some forms raised an extra 200m income tax in Britain, while personalised text messages drastically reduced the use of bailiffs to recover court fines. Her unforgettable presence, but also her policy achievements. performance at a Press Conference afterwards. speech which caused the Soviets to dub her "the Iron Lady". More than once the view was advanced that it was a pity the IRA had not succeeded in their ultimate objective when they bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton. It accounted for a large part of the mark Thatcher left on Britain. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray. Knocking up a flan for Denis or helping Carol with her algebra or Mark with his gun-running, are jarring distractions from the main narrative; woman as warrior queen. Somesay she revolutionised British politics certainly never again could people say nobody would vote for a woman but it served a reactionary end. This has been a terrible labour, she said. Endeavouring to persuade the British into an attitude of hostility to the group with which she spent 11 years deepening their connection must take a high place in any catalogue of anti-statesmanship. When President Reagan died in June 2004, she delivered a If the Falklands war was the making of Thatcher, then the poll tax was her achilles heel not least in Scotland. Government policy during the 1980s was little more than a war policy, aimed at defeating or isolating republicanism.
Margaret Thatcher Quotes (Author of The Downing Street Years) - Goodreads It never was. After leaving office, MT widened and deepened her criticism of the European declared that she wanted our money back, invited the one But on their catastrophic economic policy, it's full-speed ahead into the concrete wall. When Margaret Hilda Thatcher took over as Prime Minister, in May, 1979, I was sixteen. The items stored in this section of the site are texts, but many of the most important statements are also available in audio or video form in the separate Multimedia section. Born: 21 June 1932 in Halifax. In the 80s, she was the primary force behind what was known then as alternative comedy and is now simply called "comedy". Maggie and Me: How Thatcher Changed Britain. She was a steadfast friend to brutal tyrants such as Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein and Indonesian dictator General Suharto ("One of our very best and most valuable friends"). There was only one state-approved answering machine available. Thatcher's reputation never recovered from the ruthless budgets of 1980 and 1981, or her insensitivity to colleagues. Where copyright is the problem, the full text can be found on the Complete Here, for instance, was what the Guardian reported upon the death last month of Hugo Chavez: "To the millions who detested him as a thug and charlatan, it will be occasion to bid, vocally or discreetly, good riddance.". still being scolded for the remark.You can read here exactly what she said, During the speech, . It was a watershed moment in Irish politics. This was her last important public statement. She pointed out that she was only 10 years old when she ceased to be prime minister. Thatcher was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during Reagan's presidency, and was close with him which Later, when the BBC and ITV scheduled two programmes about Gibraltar, Thatcher tried to stop them. (MT gave up public True, Labour, James Callaghan and the unions played their part by blocking Barbara Castle's In Place of Strife attempt to create German or Nordic co-operation between unions and industry that might have rescued unions from Thatcher's crushing. As working families in poverty now account for more than half of those below the poverty line, a government committed to "making work pay" should surely encourage this trend and raise the minimum wage. Several strong women on the continent have risen to the top, but thisBritish woman, in Britain of all places, became a phenomenon, first, throughher gender. The Cameron and Osborne circle are crude copies carried away with the dangerous idea that conviction is all it takes to run a country. Collins (Oxford University Press, 1998-2000). Demonising unions and stripping the great mass of private-sector workers of a voice and power in the workplace is still the root of the great living standards crisis that saw the share of wealth going to wages slide long before Lehman Brothers failed. (No wonder it sold 7m copies a week). Heath took us into Europe, and a referendum in spring 1975 confirmed national approval for the move. . What is really left by Thatcher to history? Lady Thatcher, you honor us by coming to the site of Sir Winston's pivotal speech, an event Westminster College has immortalized with the beautiful Winston Churchill Memorial. Although the "right to buy" and the privatisation of utilities by selling shares to new small investors was often justified as giving rights to "the little people", the reality is that the less well-off fell ever further behind the rich. morning, Available for everyone, funded by readers. She mesmerised us. On taking office she showered money on public sector unions, and her "cuts" were only to planned increases, mild compared with today's. speech to the House of Lords in June 1993. Symbolically, the key moment was the defeat of the miners after the year-long pit strike in March 1985. But growth rates in the decades since her period in office have been lower than during those that preceded her; nor does the balance of research evidence suggest that greater inequality acts as a spur to growth.
If You Want Anything Said Ask a Man, Want Anything Done Ask a Woman The Texan who stole the show at Margaret Thatcher's funeral There's still the rage, still the unfairness, so where is the comedy? Following several small strokes she announced, in March 2002, that her career as a speechmaker had ended. Steely, certainly. talked of "Victorian Values". That's because, 23 years after she was ejected from Downing Street by her own party in a move whose psychic wounds linger on, the country we live in remains Thatcher's Britain. Buy the CD-ROM from this link or find one Thatcher exposed the sharp edges of class division in Britain and the strike of 1984/5 was as much a clash of values as it was about pit closures. The proportion of children living in relative poverty more than doubled during the 80s, and the damage has never been undone. By then, 1990, I was 15, adolescent and instinctively anti-establishment enough to regard her disdainfully. cent of cases. The Big Bang of City deregulation, the Tell Sid scramble for buying and selling shares, the sense that money is the highest value, wealth the greatest sign of worth all these were hallmarks of the Thatcher era in its mid-80s pomp. led Michael Heseltine to run against her for the party leadership. LONDON Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister and uncompromisingly conservative "Iron Lady" of the 1980s, has died. The core of this site is a massive database of MT's public statements of all kinds across the years (speeches, interviews, press conferences, etc), searchable by date, subject, importance, and keyword. It's interesting, though, that even when comedians try to be political, they can never really land a punch on David Cameron, Nick Clegg or George Osborne. Hewrote this piece in 2003, two weeks before he died. The most important thing Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did for British politics was to understand the significance of Thatcherism and to decide not to reverse it, indeed to carry it forward. John Major was elected her successor yesterday by Conservative Party members. She was lucky in surviving the IRA's bomb. By delivering a crisp, emphatic victory Thatcher showed the world, and more important herself, what a talent for solitary command could achieve. The preface to the
Margaret Thatcher's Speech to Congress - Hillsdale College Was it cruelty? ROBIN HARRIS worked for the Conservative Party from 1978, and increasingly closely with Margaret Thatcher herself from 1985, writing her speeches and advising on policy. She undoubtedly rescued the prestige of the country from its postwar nadir, but at a high cost to the generosity of its political and social culture. Demanding that no criticisms be voiced to counter that hagiography is to enable false history and a propagandistic whitewashing of bad acts, distortions that become quickly ossified and then endure by virtue of no opposition and the powerful emotions created by death. Peggy Noonan. Following in the footsteps of Santa Claus, Steve Hynd quickly compiled a list of all the naughty boys and girls "on the left" who dared to express criticisms of the dearly departed Prime Minister, warning that he "will continue to add to this list throughout the day". Seizing her chariot's reins to drive it on recklessly, they lack her brains, experience and political skill. "Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.". Thatcher's most baleful influence on government was not on industries and services she privatised but those she did not. At Cheltenham the following month she She was an ardent pro-European, and her 1979 manifesto made no mention of radical union reform or privatisation. Gloves.
What Is Wrong With Margaret Thatcher's Voice On 'The Crown - Esquire The drastic results of these policies were intentional. She was 87. This is what we mean by the Thatcher revolution, imposing on Britain, for better or for worse, some of the liberalisation that the major continental economies know,20 years later, they still need. Of all the things to criticise Thatcher for, calling her out for being a woman seems like something of a wasted bullet. Under Heath and Jim Callaghan the question was widely asked: had democracies become "ungovernable"?
Sue Gray has shown the dangers of thinking officials are more ethical Thatcher swept away those state monopolies in the new coinage of "privatisation" and transformed daily life in a way we now take for granted.
The Political Rhetoric and Oratory of Margaret Thatcher That said, by the mid-1980s it was clear that the Conservative government's economic policy was based on a handful of core principles. The papers date from Margaret Thatcher's childhood to the end of her life, and include tens of thousands of photographs, as well as a vast collection of press cuttings, and many audio and video tapes of public and private events. Everything has its season. The appointment was a 20-minute audience with the . The organised working class, almost alone, had put Britain on the skids. A strong pound crippled exports and emptied factories. The real comic nemeses of Thatcher were the puppets of Spitting Image.