DBWI: Thatcher surviving the Brighton Bombing

On 12 October 1984, conservative PM Margaret Thatcher was killed by the IRA in the Brighton hotel bombing. But it was only a matter of minutes - with a little bit luck, she could have survived! How would the 80's and today's Britain look like then? How long would Thatcher's premiership and Tory rule in general have lasted?
 
Well, I don't see her winning another term if she lived (there's only so much she could milk out of winning back the Falklands). So Kinnock win the 1987 election as he does in our timeline. Obviously the IRA is a lot less infamous here and there's not a such a thorough crackdown on him throughout the United Kingdom in response.
 
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Then there wouldn't really be much reason for the very hard-line stance that the British had towards Northern Ireland. I think Britain may have straight up given up on Northern Ireland; this was the era of British decline after all, and I don't really think that they would be determined enough to pull through The Troubles any further.

Oh, and the Single European Act probably wouldn't have been signed.
 
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Radical elements in the IRA never would have done attacks in Ireland in retaliation for cooperating with British authorities in bringing Margret Thatcher's assassins to Justice.
 
If Thatcher survived long enough to die of old age instead of being assassinated, would her posthumous reputation be any better or worse?

Also, would the Northern Ireland conflict have cooled down earlier or later if it weren't for the IRA killing the PM of the UK?
 
Radical elements in the IRA never would have done attacks in Ireland in retaliation for cooperating with British authorities in bringing Margret Thatcher's assassins to Justice.

Nor, for that matter, the trans-Atlantic copycat bombings because the FBI took down the IRA's whole support operation in the US, particularly NORAID, in tandem with the Bureau's takedown and shuttering of the New England Mafia.
 
Nor, for that matter, the trans-Atlantic copycat bombings because the FBI took down the IRA's whole support operation in the US, particularly NORAID, in tandem with the Bureau's takedown and shuttering of the New England Mafia.
That wasn't the New England Mafia it was the Winter Hill gang.Led by the infamous irish-american gangster Whitey Bulger.
The mafia in the Winter Hill Gang did not get along.
 
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