what would Britain be like now if Margaret Thatcher hadn't been prime minister?

Answer 1

During my teenage years I was one of "Maggies Children", yes there was bad and good. some she caused..some would have happened anyway (ie/ the demise of large scale manufacturing etc ... this would of happened.. take a look at other western cultures ..America is about the fall...it's large scale industries are supported by the goverment protected from their creditors ....and their economy cannot sustain this .....we went through this hard lesson in the late 70's to mid 80's so now we have a stronger more stable economy based on small scale industries...very diverse...and cutting edge.....don't think that just because Asia and the Far East are large scale manufacturing countries they provide all the equipment for this themselves....they do not we in Britain supply large amounts of cutting edge technology to them . Just because our industries, companies are smaller does not mean that we have lost out, our businesses have high profit margins and are very sustainable in a changing economic climate..

Anyone who was there will know she took a poor economy and transformed it .....then it was passed to Labour (the party of the people, so old Brown could rob your pension funds and give up our goverance to europe) . Mr B inherited a great economy so his poor management is only just starting to be seen.


Maggie most of all taught us to take responsiblity for ourselves...she encouraged people to buy their own houses.. to transfer the wealth to everyone, not just a few rich landlords ...things weren't PC they weren't Health and Safety....hell... we rode bicyles without helmets in those days,
people were allowed to live and die and most of all make choices without the wagging finger of "Nanny"

all I can say is enjoy ......

Answer 2

First, Thatcher was not the most popular postwar PM. She didn't win 3 landslides. She won a majority of 44 seats in 1979. She won landslides in 1983 (144 seats) and 1987 (102 seats). Major's majority in 1992 was 21 seats, though the Tory party registered more votes at this election than at any previous election thanks largely to high turnout. She was helped largely in the early 80s by a combination of an unpopular and divided Opposition and a popular war. Choosing Michael Foot as leader was a big mistake for Labour. The 1983 manifesto was described at the time as "the longest suicide note in political history". Foot looked like an old man at Death's door, as indeed he was, and without the undeniable charisma Thatcher had. With more seats a straight Labour/Tory contest, and Labour being somewhere to the left of Marx, there could only be one winner. Electorates usually punish division, so breakaway Labour MPs forming the SDP did nothing to help Foot, and everything to help Thatcher. This does not mean she was "popular" though. Certainly around here, a town surrounded by coal mines, the last of which fell silent in 1992, She would never have been welcome. At the height of her popularity, and Labour's unpopularity, Labour were polling 70% of the vote here. As for Churchill in the 50s. Clement Attlee's Labour won a 147 majority in the first post war election in 1945 and went on to found the NHS. In 1951, Churchill could only manage a 16 seat majority, propped up by a huge return of Tory seats in Scotland. How times change.

Answer 3

Britain would be a much better place.

I detest the woman and her stuck up party, but we weren't flooded with immigrants or a world terrorist target when she was in power where we?

Addmitedly she destroyed all our public services (privatisation) and made the rich vs poor divide grow, but at least when we walked down the road and we heard people talking, we heard English - which should be expected in England.

We had free speech, we didn't have to be careful of 'offending muslims' in our OWN country as we are now, and if we did, we weren't labelled as racists and locked up.

She's awful, but 'New Labour' has utterly destroyed this country of which it will never ever recover from.

To think I voted Labour, well what can I say? Bring back the Tories and lets get Britain back to being British before we forget what culture we actually are.

Did our ancestors die for us in World War II for nothing? It sure looks like that due to the Islamization of Europe and Multi-Culturism.

Those invading our country, do not have 'multi cultures' in their lands, so why should we?

Did we vote on it?

Answer 4

Britain would have had families! She copied America and chucked out our young folk into the streets with the poll tax REMEMBER?At the same time she stopped income support so they had no alternative but to live on the streets when their pa rants threw them out cos of the poll tax, then they were deemed as undesirables, now our towns are full of people who are dependant on drugs and drink, who have not had the stability oaf home. I also remember listening to a programme on the radio about 20 years ago saying what a mess America was re crack cocaine etc and the prediction that Britain would follow if Thatcher remained, this followed through she got what she wanted b a 2 tier system

Answer 5

Given the acceptance of neo-liberal ideology - ie: privatisation, the push for globalisation, the encouragement of market forces and the curtailment of workers' rights - among politicians of all parties I suspect Britain would be pretty much as it is now.

The only major difference is that there probably would have been no Falklands War which could have been resolved by purely diplomatic means.

Answer 6

In a real mess. History has proved Lady Thatcher to be highly astute for sticking to her policy decisions despite widespread criticism. All of the whinging about keep coal mines open and supporting British labour industries was highly short sighted and I have no idea why an egoist like Arthur Scargill was ever celebrated. She could be very harsh and her policies were not often for the benefit of social cohesion, but without her we would not have the thriving modern service economy we have today.

Answer 7

There is no one to be blame for the blunders and slip-ups with human errors created back in the past being expose in time after the mystery of us-911.
When we don't even know how it was first created.
Only when tracing back.
It lead us back to world war two when she was not even a PM yet.
So how can we kick her for something she did'nt do?
We just have to except the errors and try to correct it and not in pointing at anyone with the loss of peace on earth among ourselves.
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors need time to be expose and it happen in our time.
Now that we know the faults just try and correct it for the good of mankind.

Answer 8

Much better!
Our young people won't be suffering from osteoperosis in a few decades time due to her stealing the school milk.
Our coal mines would still be working.
The buses and trains would still run on time.
And Blair may never had been PM - as he would had had no inspiration...

Answer 9

The same. Like we are, despite Jimmy Carter. Oh jeeesh I didn't just compare that great lady to our dumb dweeb did I. I'm sorry for that lord, honest I am.

Answer 10

It would have been worse,actually it is worse now, but if she hadn't been prime minister it could have been much worse.
She was a great politican.