2007-10-14 17:19:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I mean, why was she hated so much?
What did she do that was so much worse than Bush or any other PM or President?
2007-10-14 17:27:29 · update #1
She is notorious in Britain for causing mass unemployment in the 1980s .
by closing down coal mines and having policies which forced a huge section of industry to collapse and many companies went bankrupt.
Government support for companies in trouble was removed as she refused to help "lame ducks".
Her first action in power was to bring in a huge increase in taxation. Value Added Tax was increased from 8% to more than 17%.
She reduced the naval forces in the South Atlantic which were based in the Falklands and then had to send them back to regain the Falklands after Argentina invaded. This caused great loss of life on both sides.
This changed perception of her from a loser to a winner and she was re-elected with a bigger majority mainly due to the influence of popular papers like the Sun.
Another way she bought increased popularity was to force local councils to sell off social housing to their tenants at very low prices and did not allow them to use the money to build more houses which led to a huge increase in homeless people.
By the mid 1980s most of the prominent Conservative politicians who had been with her when she first came to power had either left or been fired and she surrounded herself with yesmen.
Finally even they became sick of her arrogance and stupidity and removed her from her post as Prime Minister.
The Conservative party since then is still trying to recover from her influence.
2007-10-14 19:18:48 · answer #1 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Margaret Thatcher was a champion of free minds and markets, she helped topple the welfare state and make the world safer for capitalism
She was the catalyst who set in motion a series of interconnected events that gave a revolutionary twist to the century's last two decades and helped mankind end the millennium on a note of hope and confidence. The triumph of capitalism, the almost universal acceptance of the market as indispensable to prosperity, the collapse of Soviet imperialism, the downsizing of the state on nearly every continent and in almost every country in the world — Margaret Thatcher played a part in all those transformations, and it is not easy to see how any would have occurred without her.
2007-10-15 00:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by Tenn Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She is an ex British Prime Minister.
2007-10-15 00:24:02 · answer #3 · answered by JOE N 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
chiefly among other things, she was prime minister of England.
2007-10-15 00:24:52 · answer #4 · answered by bksooy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋