79-87 Politics

Question 1

the split of labour

Answer 1

-crisis began in 1980 when michael foot defeated healey for party leadership in 1980
-sep 1981 healey appointed deputy leader
-couldn’t depend on working class support
-some voters became thatcher supporters or lib/sdp

Question 2

the sdps emergence

Answer 2

-started at end of jan 1981
-gang of four issued limehouse declaration
-david owen, r jenkins, s williams, bill rodgers
-then 28 labour mps, claimed extremists drove them out
-new centralite alternative to the bennite left

Question 3

the sdps actions

Answer 3

-shirley williams won a by-election in crosby 1981
-jenkins won glasgow hillhead
-two centre parties formed the sdp-liberal alliance
-worked together in 1983 and 1987 elections

Question 4

Thatcherist ideology

Answer 4

-in favour of monetarism and free market economics
-against the ‘permissive’ society
-supportive of the police, tough on law and order
-did not really exist during 1979 election

Question 5

Ministers in support

Answer 5

-regarded as dries
-geoffrey howe, became chancellor
-keith joseph, department of industry minister
-john biffen and nigel lawson also got economic posts

Question 6

Ministers against

Answer 6

-regarded as wets
-willie whitelaw, appointed home sec
-jim prior, became employment minister disagreed with thatcher and replaced by tebbit in 1981

Question 7

Westland affair

Answer 7

-heseltine wanted to use europe to rescue westland helicopters
-thatcher wanted to use america to save it
-heseltine storms out of cabinet meeting resigns

Question 8

1983 election

Answer 8

-tories won 397 seats, labour 203
-liberal sdp alliance 1/2 million less votes 186 less seats showed issues with first past the post

Question 9

1987 election

Answer 9

-tories won 375 seats, labour 229
-liberal sdp alliance struggled as labour became more electable again
-officially formed liberal democrats in 1988

Question 10

Hunger strikes

Answer 10

-hunger strikes 1980 led by bobby sands
-nominated to stand in as anti-h-block candidate in fermanagh while still on hunger strike, won the seat
-sands died weeks later and 9 more before oct 1981

Question 11

Brighton bomb

Answer 11

-oct 1984 ira bomb grand hotel brighton
-targeted thatcher at tory party conference
-thatcher unhurt, 5 people killed

Question 12

Anglo-irish agreement

Answer 12

-signed in hillsborough in nov 1985
-intergovernmental cooperation between uk and roi
-confirmed ni part of uk
-gave roi advisory role in ni

Question 13

Reaction to anglo-irish agreement

Answer 13

-200,000 people attended belfast protest rally
-iain paisley ‘never never never never’
-ulster resistance set up 1986, atrocities from both sides

Question 14

Events of troubles

Answer 14

-Jul 1982 Hyde/Regents park, 11 soldiers killed by IRA
-Dec 1983, Harrods bombing , 6 killed by IRA
-May 1987, 8 IRA volunteers and civilian shot by SAS
-Nov 1987, enniskillen, 12 people killed by IRA