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how did thatcher describe her politics?

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conviction politician

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what was a feature that differentiated her from previous PMs?

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dismissive of the post-war consensus
saw it as a reason for britain’s ills & laziness

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what was thatcher’s background?

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middle class, daughter of a greengrocer / working man
saw hard work as the only cause of success and that britain desperately needed more incentive
wanted more self-reliance and improvement for brtit

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what was thactcher’s career background?

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studied chemistry at oxford
was a lawyer

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what is a famous quote that reflects thatcher’s leadership style?

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‘you turn if you want to, the lady’s not for turning.’
1981

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what was thatcher’s political ideology influenced by?

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trad tory thinking, enoch powell & ‘new right’ academics

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what were thatcher’s economic policies called?

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monetarism, free-market economics

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why was the free market considered to be useful?

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encouraged individuals to take responsibility for their actions - personal & economic decisions

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what did thatcher and similar policitians believe about society at the time?

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was too permissive & needed order
thatcher: ‘who is society? there is no such thing as that!’

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who was norman tebbit?

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trade secretary in thatcher’s first cabinet & later party chairman
popular with new thatcherites
agreed with beliefs of ‘too permissive’ society

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give examples of wets

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willie whitelaw - home secretary
jim prior - employment minister

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give examples of dries

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geoffrey howe - chancellor of exchequer
keith joseph - dep. of industry
nigel lawson - economic role

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what were the main disagreeements between thatcher and prior?

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anti union legislation
prior was seen as too friendly with with trade union leaders
was moved to NI office in 1981 (demotion)

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why did thatcher have so many opposing politicians in her close cabinet?

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to keep them under minister loyalty and stop them spreading shit about thatcher

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when were the main years of labour divisions?

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1979-87

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when was the SDP founded and what does it stand for?

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social democratic party
1981

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what was the SDP and what were the effects?

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a completely new party formed by key personalities
caused shocking loses in 1983/87

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how did the formation of the SDP begin?

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foot was elected instead of obvious candidate healey
labour had become far too extreme
believed best way to save labour was to start a new party of a middle ground

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who was michael foot?

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left wing
bevanite
supporter of CND
elected in 1980

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who was in the gang of four that originated the SDP?

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david owen, roy jenkins, shirley williams & bill rodgers

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what was the event that caused many moderate labour members to give up on the now extremist party?

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-party conference in Jan 1981
was hostile and demonstrated new party priorities and beliefs

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what was the SDP-liberal alliance?

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formal agreement between the two parties
worked together in 1983 & 87 elections

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how were relations within the alliance?

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tense - differences between david steele and david owen
was still able to take over labour as a credible opposition to thatchers gov until 87

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why was labour ignored during these elections?

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so messy that it was seen as unelectable

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what happened to regular labour voters?
labour could no longer rely on trad working class support some voters became thatcher conservatives some voted for the alliance some did not vote at all
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what was the public perception of labour as the extremist left took over?
loosened loyalties of working class & unions were less of strong supporters lost touch w people it was meant to serve may cease to be a potential party of gov
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when did neil kinnock replace michael foot as labour leader?
1983
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how did kinnock help labour's deteriotating state?
less extreme. helped bring labour back to political mainstream criticised scargill for failing to hold a strike ballot in 1984 miners strike
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what was militant tendency?
a newspaper/organisation of trotskyite revolutionary socialism seeked infiltrating the lab party from within biggest success in labour where it broke laws of council capping
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what did kinnock succeed in 1986?
removing militant tendency from the party was still percieved as dominated by left and trade unions
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what was the main reason for thatcher's 1983 victory?
quick falklands victory was previously one of the most unpopular PMs
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what was thatcher's approach to the falklands war?
immediate full-scale military effort ignored recommendations from labour, UN and europe
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how was the victory percieved?
due to thatcher's strong and skillful leadership orginal opposition to the war but the victory brought a huge wave of patriotism and approval from the press
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how did falkland's help thatcher within her party?
galvanised grass-roots tory activists thatcher gained self-confidence and could dominate
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how did the FF affect her personal image?
ability to make tough yet successful decisions in the war encouraged people to believe she could do the same with home politics
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what is an alternative reason thatcher managed to win in the 1983 election?
labour leadership lacked credibility due to foot's poor leadership in the face of the divisions labour manifesto was the 'longest suicide note in history' of extremely left policies
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what were some of the policies in labour's disasturous manifesto?
unilateral disarmament withdrawal from the EEC abolition of fox hunting
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what is a reason the first-past-the-post system allowed thatcher to win the 1983 election?
the anti-conservative vote totalled 16 million - 3 million more votes than the tory vote tories still had huge majority of 144 seats
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what was the seat statistics for the 1982 elections?
397 - tory 209 - labour
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how was the state of the labour party by the 1987 election?
kinnock as new leader had done as much as possible to save it but still suffered massive loss
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how was other political opposition weak during this election?
the alliance found it hard to maintain the support gained in 1981-82 due to ideological differences as the party was mostly formed on disliking thatcher personal differences between the two leaders
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1987 election results?
375 tory seats, 229 lab 42.2 tory seats, 30.8 lab, 22.6 alliance
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what were thatcher's political beliefs regarding ireland?
strong unionist sympathies & did not want to give into terrorism
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what is an infamous strike event in 1980?
no special category status for IRA prisoners hunger strikes led by bobby sands sands dies 9 died before it was called off in 1981
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what was thatcher's response to the hunger strikes?
it was a loss as the special category status was not achieved caused her to become a hate figure for NI republicans as sands became a hero
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who became sinn fein president in 1983?
gerry adams
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what was the brighton bombing?
thatcher was staying in a brighton hotel in october 1984 during a tory party conference the hotel is bombed five are killed, causing national british outrage
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what was the 1985 anglo-irish agreement?
permanent intergovernmental cooperation between uk and RoI intended to enhance security cooperation between IR and UK & strengthen moderate nationalists against sinn fein
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what was the republican response to the anglo-irish agreement?
opposed as it confirmed nothern ireland as a part of the UK
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why was the paramilitary group ulster resistance set up in 1986?
iain paisley rallying those who didnt want RoI terrorist input on their gov

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