AHC: Earliest Possible Thatcherism

With a POD of January 1st 1945, your challenge is to have Thatcherism, Raganomics or similar analogues emerge and be implemented by at least one western bloc country but preferably as many as possible as early as possible before their OTL emergence. Bonus points if you can destroy the post war consensus as well. Good luck.
 
With a POD of January 1st 1945, your challenge is to have Thatcherism, Raganomics or similar analogues emerge and be implemented by at least one western bloc country but preferably as many as possible as early as possible before their OTL emergence. Bonus points if you can destroy the post war consensus as well. Good luck.

Thatcherism is going to be extremely hard to produce. The IEA was pretty much working relentlessly and 24/7 to crush the postwar concensus, yet pretty much no one heard them. Frankly, prior to the 70s, they barely even produced a dent in it.
 
While you could get a Goldwater or Powell into government Thatcherism was much more than Thatcher. After the disasters of the 70's stagflation the "post-war consensus" collapsed and went from being the consensus support by overwhelming majorities in every country to an obsolete anachronism opposed by most whether from the right (Thatcher) or left (Tony Benn). Without it's comprehensive failure it can't be destroyed but will remain the consensus even if PM Powell manages some deregulation.
 
Propably if Wilson win the election of 1970, the Tories could turn inthe oppostion to a more "thatcherist" (naturally it would called different).
If a elction occur after the oil-price-shock-recession, we could have Thatcherism in 1974/75.
 

Hendryk

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It would be anachronistic to have such an ideology become mainstream before the 1970s, since Thatcherism was mostly defined as a reaction against the post-war economic consensus, which had served the Western world quite well until the 1973 oil shock. So you first need that consensus to become established to begin with, and then to run out of steam--only then does something like Thatcherism make sense. Otherwise you just have some sort of paleoconservatism.
 
I think that it is possible to have something along the lines of Thatcherism during the sixties, but it would be so different from in it both in style and in substance that it would not be Thatcherism per se.

Something along the lines of an earlier economic liberalisation of certain sectors of the economy can definitely happen. In fact by doing this in the sixties you would probably butterfly away part of the extremes of the seventies with Union strife and this would lead to a midler, more thoughtful and less ideological "neo liberal movement" on the whole.

A lot of the extremism within Thatcherism, especially the style and the rethoric (Thatcherism was much more about style rather than substance anyways). Had its roots not in the failure of the post war consensus per se, but in the Union strife of the seventies.
 
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