DBWI: Thatcher as Prime Minister

samcster94

Banned
It was theoretically possible in 1975 that Thatcher was capable of becoming Prime Minister as she was the head of the Tories, but she was dumped a few months in due to a corruption scandal. What are the implications of her ever being Prime Minister??? Bonus points if she is hated by Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland in TTL!!!
 
She becomes a divisive figure, hated up North and in Scotland. She, not Foot, becomes loathed in Argentina. The Conservative Party moves away from one-nation conservatism.

The safe Conservative seats in coal mining/industrial areas vanish, and the bitter civil war between the industrial and green wings of Labour IOTL never breaks out.

Labour would probably come to power eventually, either moving to the centre later or earlier than OTL. They'd probably be pro rather than anti-EU. Seumas Milne's Labour leadership bid won't go down in flames (if he does apply) as a result of his drunken rant about the "Footite imperialists".
 
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