Was Thatcher Good or Bad for Britain ?

Answer 1

Thatcher was evil.

Her personal moto was 'there is no such thing as society'

Look at Britain today, a selfish, self-obsessed me first country, where people's only interest is to buy a house, not as home for their family but as an investment, where cheap credit is destroying people, and where employees can be forced to work zero hour contracts or fired by text message whilst there bosses are on company 'jollies' abroad.

Look at the young people who use their freedom to use firearms, because their dads use their freedom to abandon their children.

Thatcherism was all about freedom without responsibility, and we are paying for the consequences of that today

Thanks to Thatcher we all struggle to survive in a 'society' that has been deliberately destroyed.

What a Legacy

Answer 2

I hate to say this but good i hate the woman especially after the miners strike but you need strong leaders. Labour is selling out Britain all our lads who died to stop Britain being invaded would be ashamed of whats going on now every left wing policy ruins things as reality is never the pc friendly version we are being forced to accept. I wonder if its to late tho this short term cheap labour from abroad is not a solution you can continue forever and the affect on house prices is there for everyone to see.

Answer 3

Margaret Thatcher was a highly effective Prime Minister. Great Britain had economically declined under socialist Labour (British spelling) governments. They failed in trying to tax the British into prosperity--instead England declined.

By lower taxes, having more free enterprise, and being stronger militarily, such as in the Falklands victory, Mrs. Thatcher, a Conservative, made Great Britian a much stronger nation.

Answer 4

She was very Good. But the non British people afraid at her!!!

What's came to her? Is she ill?

Kozan means Pennis in South Indian Languages. True!

Answer 5

Bad she was an evil woman who supported dictators. She caused this country to go downhill by privatising everything.

Answer 6

Margaret Thatcher and Kenneth KaundaThatcher became Prime Minister on 4 May 1979, with a mandate to reverse the UK's economic decline and to reduce the role of the state in the economy. Thatcher was incensed by one contemporary view within the Civil Service, that its job was to manage the UK's decline from the days of Empire, and she wanted the country to assert a higher level of influence and leadership in international affairs. She was a philosophic soul mate of Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980 in the United States, and to a lesser extent Brian Mulroney, who was elected in 1984 in Canada. Conservatism now became the dominant political philosophy in the major English-speaking nations, apart from Australia. In contrast her relationship with Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke was rather strained due to their contrasting views on South Africa and the Commonwealth (Hawke was a republican), and Thatcher did not endorse previous Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser as Secretary General of the Commonwealth[3].

In May 1980, one day before she was due to meet the Irish Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, to discuss Northern Ireland, she announced in the House of Commons that "the future of the constitutional affairs of Northern Ireland is a matter for the people of Northern Ireland, this government, this parliament, and no-one else."

In 1981, a number of Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners in Northern Ireland's Maze prison (known in Northern Ireland as 'Long Kesh', its previous name) went on hunger strike to regain the status of political prisoners, which had been revoked five years earlier under the preceding Labour government. Bobby Sands, the first of the strikers, was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone a few weeks before he died.

Thatcher refused at first to countenance a return to political status for republican prisoners, famously declaring "Crime is crime is crime; it is not political."[4] However, after nine more men had starved themselves to death and the strike had ended, some rights relating to political status were restored to paramilitary prisoners.

Thatcher's public hard line on the treatment of terrorists was reinforced during the 1981 Iranian Embassy Siege where for the first time in 70 years British armed forces were authorised to use lethal force on the mainland.

Thatcher also continued the policy of "Ulsterisation" of the previous Labour government and its Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Roy Mason, believing that the Unionists of Northern Ireland should be at the forefront in combating Irish republicanism. This meant relieving the burden on the mainstream British army and elevating the role of the Ulster Defence Regiment and the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

As a monetarist, Thatcher started out in her economic policy by increasing interest rates to slow the growth of the money supply and thus lower inflation. She had a preference for indirect taxation over taxes on income, and value added tax (VAT) was raised sharply to 15%, with a resultant actual short-term rise in inflation.[citation needed] These moves hit businesses -- especially the manufacturing sector -- and unemployment quickly passed two million, doubling the one million unemployed under the previous Labour government.

Political commentators harked back to the Heath Government's "U-turn" and speculated that Mrs Thatcher would follow suit, but she repudiated this approach at the 1980 Conservative Party conference, telling the party: "To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catch-phrase—the U-turn—I have only one thing to say: you turn if you want to; the Lady's not for turning."[5] That she meant what she said was confirmed in the 1981 budget, when, despite concerns expressed in an open letter from 364 leading economists,[citation needed] taxes were increased in the middle of a recession. In January 1982, the inflation rate had dropped back to 8.6% from earlier highs of 18%, and interest rates were then allowed to fall. Unemployment continued to rise, reaching an official figure of 3.6 million — although the criteria for defining who was unemployed were amended allowing some to estimate that unemployment in fact hit 5 million. However, Norman Tebbit has suggested that, due to the high number of people claiming unemployment benefit whilst working, unemployment never reached three million. By 1983, manufacturing output had dropped 30% from 1978.
so she was good and bad for britain

Answer 7

BAD, BAD, BAD. i agree with Neil J. she is the sole reason Britain is in the sorry state it is today.

Answer 8

I believe she was very good for britain, since she did not get them involved in a no win war.

Answer 9

Bad, bad,bad,bad,bad - nasty evil little woman who couldn't give a toss about us 'little' people. Not earning £300,000 a year or more????? - oh well, you're just not important.

Answer 10

hate to admit it, but she did more good than harm, the working class (myself) suffered more under her than anyone! but at the end of the day, the UK was a better off under her than it is now!