Remember when she fucked up the economy

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• Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  can one of the Brits lay out bullet points or just a short list of why Thatcher is so universally hated by the uk?

  I really only know the memes and I’m finally curious about the substance.

  thank you.

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  • ECB@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    She (similar to Reagan in the US) enacted a massive shift in government/society from a more social-democratic focus to a more (economocally) liberal one. Her big goals were to privatize and financialize as much as possible.

    This ended up leading to (as it always does) massive increases in inequality, with particularly rural/industrial regions suffering heavily while the services/financial sector in London boomed.

    So she is EXTREMELY polarizing. Many conservatives or big-business types worship her, while for many/most others she’s seen as the worst thing to happen to the UK.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Also lets not forget how the changes in press-ownership legislation during her time set the way for the growth of the Far-Right which has already delivered Brexit and will quite likely keep on regularly delivering problems to the UK.

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      got it, thanks for the broad strokes and context

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    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Why does she show up as LibLeft on political compasses if she’s so Reagan?

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The big thing she’s remembered for is closing down the mining industry. Whole communities throughout the north of England and Wales were left penniless. They were towns where everyone worked as a miner or in some way related to the mine. Nothing was done to give any alternatives.

    Of course there was a huge industrial dispute - The miners strike. Massive, initially peaceful, demonstrations that turned violent as police would attack and stir up the conflict. People died, communities were shatteredd, yet through it all Thatcher was unmoving. Just using the police as her own civilian army.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQh4n8rRLw8

    She viewed as a uncaring authoritarian tyrant by many.

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    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Weren’t the miner strikes started by the management refusing to define metope?

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      wow, that’s crazy. thanks for the video, i just watched it.

      if thatchers goal was to close the mines, wouldn’t miners voluntarily not working play into that?

      or does strike in this context mean general protest rather than specifically not working?

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think others have pretty much covered her social and economic destruction of the UK, so I’ll add “Section 28”.

    Section 28 - Wiki link

    To “protect our children”, she introduced the policies to ban any books/songs/art/plays etc from schools which mentioned or suggested homosexuality in any way neutral or positive - obviously this led to an increase in the already fairly popular “gay bashing”.

    Thankfully nothing like that would happen anywhere now, outside of the few countries Vladimir Putin runs.

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To add on what @Higgs Boson@dubvee.org said, credit to where it’s due, the privatisation did help the struggling British economy lift itself out of edging bankruptcy caused by the oil crisis. We have to admit that, sometimes, you need to tighten your belt. But, Thatcher went too far with gutting welfare and unions. Even some respectable conservatives at the time agreed that she went too far.

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  • abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thatcher Thatcher milk snatcher

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  • Monzcarro@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Another one I think should be added is that she presided over the selling off of large amount of council housing (homes owned by local authorities and rented at controlled to people who needed them or for free in the case of some benefit claimants).

    The scheme is called Right to Buy and was lauded as a way for everyone to own their own home, as they were sold to the tenants at way below market value.

    However, housing stock was not replenished, as local authorities did not get all the money from the sales, and were further restricted from using what they did get to build new housing.

    What we’ve been left with us severely depleted council housing. Where I live and work, we have a huge list of applicants, and only those with the very highest level of need can get a council property, leaving others to pay extortionate private rents or become homeless.

    Furthermore, the rules around resale weren’t strict enough so you see ex council housing on property websites where people have made tens of thousands in profit on selling them. Many of these are now in the hands of private landlords.

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      wow, yes I appreciate you adding that context, that’s some important information to know

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• Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I remember when she took my milk

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thatcher the milk snatcher.

    It’s incredible how she is almost universally hated in the UK.

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    • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s far from universal, the impression probably comes from the general left leaning bias of online Brits and the fact that people that don’t like her tend to really fucking hate her due to her policies leading to the complete devastation of entire communities.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      unfortunately not totally universally.

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And your jungle canyon rope-bridges.

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• missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In chronological order.

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• elvith@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ding Dong the Witch is Dead

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  • arschflugkoerper@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s difficult to imagine the death of an American politician being met with similar protests.

    Not even for Kissinger?

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• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m sure there were also wonderful moments later on when people had a chance to pissed on her grave.

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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This lady is my favourite “too bad”

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  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Classic video. The old lady is based with staking Thatcher to make sure that she will never come back.

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• Spezi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Bro, brits have no shame, they even put popcorn on her coffin.

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  • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    She ruined lives and communities …is doing that that bad?

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Image

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• uulven@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/album/maida-vale?t=9[Th… day T. Dies]

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