I'm wondering, just how much uglier/out of touch/out of control can Thatcher and Thatcherism get after the 1983 election? Say that she becomes convinced that she's completely safe from both being booted from power by the electorate, Labour, or from opposition within her own party for the next decade and decides to push even harder and farther than she did in OTL. So at least a couple more hyper ideological initiatives that are largely divorced from public opinion/reality a la the Poll Tax. A partial privatization of the NHS? Even harder social conservative legislation like Section 28? Reintroduction of National Service? Are there any known very bad ideas that she had to be talked out of IOTL that she might be inclined to go for should she feel even more invulnerable?
Just How Much Harder/Farther/Uglier Can Thatcher/Thatcherism Get?
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Return of franchise to pre-1832 limitations potentially. Restoration of chattel slavery.
Privatization of the NHS. Reinvestment of all the funds from the North Sea Oil industry to build 1000 nuclear power plants. Stephan Fry executed live on the BBC(the TV loiscense has been abolished) for crimes against comedy. The Green belt is abolished, Environmental Reviews have been abolished. The Monarchy is abolished, and replaced with an all-powerful Cromwellian President. Housing prices decline year after year as more than a million homes are built by private enterprises piloted by giant mechs built in massive 20 km wide lab complexes in the New OxBridge megacity. Love Island has been renewed for another season.
The Saxon has awoken.
Actually, scrapping the license fee and making the BBC run advertisements seem like exactly the sort of thing Thatcher would do if she had her way.Privatization of the NHS. Reinvestment of all the funds from the North Sea Oil industry to build 1000 nuclear power plants. Stephan Fry executed live on the BBC(the TV loiscense has been abolished) for crimes against comedy. The Green belt is abolished, Environmental Reviews have been abolished. The Monarchy is abolished, and replaced with an all-powerful Cromwellian President. Housing prices decline year after year as more than a million homes are built by private enterprises piloted by giant mechs built in massive 20 km wide lab complexes in the New OxBridge megacity. Love Island has been renewed for another season.
The Saxon has awoken.
While Britain did have to call on the IMF, what's often forgotten is that all of the loan had been repaid before the Thatcher government got elected, which left the Tories with a pretty decent economic position that Labour and the Liberals took the rap for. So a fiscally prudent payoff, but politically less clear cut.
As for worse moves, privatisation of the BBC and NHS plus poll tax? Not founding Channel 4 or making it full on commercial?
Just invert Australia:
After years in Power she's knifed by her number two, who wins one election, and loses the next to The Other Party who continues and extends the policies.
Oh wait, that actually happened. Well get The Other Party to fundamentally dismantle the post-war compromise.
Oh wait, that actually happened. Well get The Other Party to fundamentally transform the social discourse such that a post-war compromise is viewed as an impossibility.
Oh wait,
yours,
Sam R.
After years in Power she's knifed by her number two, who wins one election, and loses the next to The Other Party who continues and extends the policies.
Oh wait, that actually happened. Well get The Other Party to fundamentally dismantle the post-war compromise.
Oh wait, that actually happened. Well get The Other Party to fundamentally transform the social discourse such that a post-war compromise is viewed as an impossibility.
Oh wait,
yours,
Sam R.
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Banned
Britain had the Winter of Discontent in Nov 1978 to Feb 1979, so things weren't smooth sailing after the 3 day week in 1974.
Privatise the NHS and Post Office as well as all nationalised industries and utilities
Means Test all social security benefits but the old age pension
If you do qualify for benefits you're damn well going to work for them, even if it means painting grass green or turning boulders into sand with a hammer and chisel
Industry to sink or swim on its own without any Government support
Debtor's Prisons re-introduced
Means Test all social security benefits but the old age pension
If you do qualify for benefits you're damn well going to work for them, even if it means painting grass green or turning boulders into sand with a hammer and chisel
Industry to sink or swim on its own without any Government support
Debtor's Prisons re-introduced
They bring back the death penalty.At first for IRA terrorists, then across the board.