Thatcherism characteristics

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Economics

Free market- Hayek and Friedman- "Natural rate of unemployment"

Privatisation- Utilities (1986) and Planning Act (1980) 

Monetarism- Low inflation- Medium Financial Strategy 

Pratten- Since 1984, behind a veil of rhetoric, the government has lost any faith it had in technical monetarism. 

Reduced top tax band 86% to 40% 

Huntingdon- "clash of civilisation" 

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Small government

Banned Greater London Council (1986) 

Restrictions on councils in Education Act (1980) 

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Restricted role of state

Employment Act (1980)- restricted Trade Unions 

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Tradition/ Victorian values

Section 28 Local Government Act (1980) 

Self Help (1859)- "Unemployed get on your bikes"

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Patriotism

Falklands (1982) 

Powell- "a very great man"

Anti Europe- opposed German Reunification (1990) 

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Law and Order

“Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.”

Shows a link to Oakeshott- cure is not worse than the disease

Prison works 

Hobbes- without Law and Order we would have unpleasantly short life 

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