Thatcher w/o Reagan (2.0)

I think most of us here are familiar with the standard scenario - Ford wins in 1976, a Democrat wins in 1980, thus very different 1980’s. What I’m particularly interested in here is how this affects Britain - since I think it’s fair to say the premiership of Margaret Thatcher still happens - her election to the Conservative Leadership predates our PoD, and Labour was most probably screwed in the next election in any event.

So Thatcher is the UK PM, while a (fairly liberal) Democrat is POTUS. What does this mean for British Foreign Policy and for the legacy of Thatcherism more generally? Is the Falklands War affected? What about South Africa? What about Europe? Do Conservatives still win the subsequent three elections? Or is Thatcher as boldly neoliberal?

And given how the 1980’s are changed for Great Britain, what does this mean for them in subsequent history?

(Surprised this question hasn’t been touched on in over eight years; only thought of it now reading a comment by @Politibrit in another thread.)
 
Well, from a foreign policy perspective, a generic Democratic president still probably does the same thing as Reagan during the Falklands and politely asks the UK not to attack a regime they've been friendly with and then shrugs and lets it go forward. The decision to place Pershing IIs in Europe was in 1979 IOTL, so those are still there, regardless.

This isn't quite the same scenario, but on NPR, the takeaway looked at what Carter's second term would have looked like a few years ago, and to your question, of the things that came up were that Carter probably would have accelerated the end of Apartheid quicker. Another key point is Carter's response to AIDS and a lessening in general of the pandemic, but, that was more specific to Carter than a generic Democrat.
 
Well, from a foreign policy perspective, a generic Democratic president still probably does the same thing as Reagan during the Falklands and politely asks the UK not to attack a regime they've been friendly with and then shrugs and lets it go forward.
So - getting it back to UK effects - this in turn likely means that the Tories still easily win re-election.
 
The longest suicide note in history, presumably, still happens.
If Michael Foot still wins the Leadership Election, there’s no reason to think it won’t; interestingly enough, the first round of said election was held the same day as the US Presidential Election OTL, though not sure if that helps or hurts Healy.
 
Well, given the exhaustion toward the GOP by 1980 and Carter blowing his shot at using his advantage over the others that they can catch up, I can picture maybe Kennedy or even Mo Udall becoming President in the 80s. It’d be a pretty stark contrast between the two and that could affect domestic politics in the UK.

The greater comparisons and what the US achieved over the UK could cause tensions within the Tories. Not sure if it’ll stop the rise of Blair, but it could if Labour sees what the US is doing and people wanna hop on board
 
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