In the following there is going to be an offer of what Thatcherism is as an ideology and key concepts involved; Privatization closely linked with Individualism and Monetarism and also how Thatcher became successful as Prime Minster in the UK. Thatcherism defined as “the free/strong-state ideological stance adopted by Margaret Thatcher: the UK version of the New Right political project” by Andrew Haywood (Heywood, 2007). Thatcherism is a term that came from The Daily Telegraph, days after Thatcher had resigned from office in November 1990 after serving 11 and a half years as Prime Minster in Britain (Evans, 1997). Thatcher is the only British politician to be recognised with an ideology, perhaps the term was used as she had such huge political
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One of Thatcher’s successes whilst she held leadership in Britain was the what’s known as the ‘Falklands Factor’ (Evans, 1997), the Argentineans invaded remote British south Atlantic colony in early 1982. The invasion came as a shock to the government meaning that there was not a sufficient plan in place to tackle this as the foreign office team were not prepared, they then took responsibility for this and resigned (R Leach, B Coxall and L Robins, 1994). At first Thatcher took a more diplomatic approach to tackle the Falklands invasion however this didn’t work at first (British Heritage, 2014) thus taking a more head on approach, she was known for leading from the front (R Leach, B Coxall and L Robins, 1994). Much of Britain then saw Thatcher determined and stood up for Britain in the terms of foreign power (Evans, 1997). Just after 74 days the Argentinean army surrendered bring victory to Thatcher, leading to her nickname ‘The Iron Lady’ (Owen, 2013). It has been said that the Falklands War help Thatcher gain premiership again in 1983 general election allowing Conservatives to gain 397 seats compared to 209 from opposition Labour (Heywood, Politics, 2007). This shows that the Falklands war played a significant role in helping gain leadership again as her image changed and people’s opinions at this time had change of ‘The Iron
One of Thatcher’s successes whilst she held leadership in Britain was the what’s known as the ‘Falklands Factor’ (Evans, 1997), the Argentineans invaded remote British south Atlantic colony in early 1982. The invasion came as a shock to the government meaning that there was not a sufficient plan in place to tackle this as the foreign office team were not prepared, they then took responsibility for this and resigned (R Leach, B Coxall and L Robins, 1994). At first Thatcher took a more diplomatic approach to tackle the Falklands invasion however this didn’t work at first (British Heritage, 2014) thus taking a more head on approach, she was known for leading from the front (R Leach, B Coxall and L Robins, 1994). Much of Britain then saw Thatcher determined and stood up for Britain in the terms of foreign power (Evans, 1997). Just after 74 days the Argentinean army surrendered bring victory to Thatcher, leading to her nickname ‘The Iron Lady’ (Owen, 2013). It has been said that the Falklands War help Thatcher gain premiership again in 1983 general election allowing Conservatives to gain 397 seats compared to 209 from opposition Labour (Heywood, Politics, 2007). This shows that the Falklands war played a significant role in helping gain leadership again as her image changed and people’s opinions at this time had change of ‘The Iron