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And who is Margaret Thatcher? Only few women were honoured to gain this title. Margaret Thatcher was a British prime minister as the first woman to hold this position and the longest serving prime minister in Britain.

Despite public outcry and plunging popularity, Thatcher stood firm in her policies, leading to one of her most famous quotes :. Ultimately her policies and the link between money supply and inflation were proven correct and inflation lowered to 8. But that was not before over 2 million manufacturing jobs had been lost in the recession and swathes of industry had been decimated, never to recover - though Tony Blair's Labour administration actually contributed more to manufacturing decline , as seen in the GDP graphic below.

What is less welcome to many people is that Britain was in critical need of this change. Andrew Sullivan sums it up well in his piece, Thatcher, Liberator :. She divided the country deeply — and still does.

She made some serious mistakes — the poll tax, opposition to German unification, insisting that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist — but few doubt she altered her country permanently, re-establishing the core basics of a free society and a free economy that Britain had intellectually bequeathed to the world and yet somehow lost in its own class-ridden, envy-choked socialist detour to immiseration.

For a more 'thorough' review you can read a detailed analysis from the Centre for Business Research on the History of British Industrial Performance from , or The impact of Government policies on UK manufacturing since She did. This Guardian article and the linked Google Spreadsheet has a number for excellent interactive charts where you can plot various economic indicators over the course of the Thatcher Government and beyond. More important than simply being in office during the time of such rates were the consequences and the measures taken to control them.

This Parliamentary Briefing Paper shows one of the biggest - repossessions. Ordinary home owners, many of whom had bought their homes as a direct result of the Right to Buy scheme, found themselves losing their homes due to spiraling mortgage payments. However, it must be said that the bulk of repossessions happened directly after Thatcher left office , though no doubt many rightly attribute their defaults to the period of high interest rates that preceded her departure.

Though the control of inflation was ultimately achieved, this further damage to ordinary people, millions of whom had already lost their jobs thanks to the impact on manufacturing, lead to a deep rooted personal hatred of Thatcher and Thatcherism.

She did, but the Bill passed anyway. As ever, things are more complicated. Thatcher, the new Secretary of State for Education at the time, was ordered to make cuts in four areas:. Concerned over the effect of the cuts to milk, she said :.

She proposed a compromise, that would later be accepted , to remove milk provision for those aged 7 to 11 but retain it for primary school pupils for nutritional purposes. In , the then Labour Education Secretary Edward Short removed free milk from secondary schools , 3 years before Thatcher continued the phased removal for primary school pupils over 7. It is therefore prudent to ask at what point responsibility for the current situation switches to successive Governments who have failed to correct this imbalance.

The Poll Tax is the stand-out, unequivocal disaster of the Thatcher Government. Though, that's a somewhat contested claim. Many believed that changing the way the tax was calculated, from the estimated market value of a property to the number of people living in it, was a backwards step.

It disproportionately hit large families living in relatively small accommodation and was universally hated for being unfair on ordinary working people.

The Community Charge caused intense distrust and deep wounds in the political psyche of millions of voters, many of whom never forgave Thatcher for her actions as we see from the anger released following her death. The changes generated seething public anger , mass protests , public disobedience, mass refusal to pay , legal challenges and some of the worst rioting ever seen in England.

Yorkshire Police even made preparations to refuse to arrest anyone as thanks to the problems of implementing the tax , the force believed it lacked the resources to deal with such wide-scale civil disobedience. John Major won the resultant leadership contest and immediately abolished the Community Charge. It was based on the essentially identical Rates system used prior to the Community Charge. Such is the strength of feeling still felt in Britain about the Community Charge, politicians have consistently steered clear of adjusting it for over 20 years, save for minor alterations aimed primarily at increasing discounts for certain households and individuals.

As ever, things are more subtle. The Labour Party initially campaigned against the internal market, claiming it had fragmented the NHS and distorted incentives.

GP fundholding was abolished, and primary care groups later primary care trusts were established as the new commissioning bodies, but with a greater focus on needs assessment and accountability to the local community. Although they initially helped primary care groups with needs assessment, they were to ultimately take on a more managerial role, determining local targets and standards.

The sentiment is more rightly directed at the Conservative Party as a whole. The effects of the Irish famine also greatly impacted Merseyside, as a grand influx of the Irish population fled their homeland to migrate to Liverpool. There is also the matter of the handling of the Hillsborough disaster and its aftermath. Former Conservative MP Irvine Patnick had a strong role in spreading the gross untruths and lies about the Liverpool supporters involved in the tragedy.

PM refuses my request for him to apologise for his Spectator editorial repeating Hillsborough untruths, accusing Liverpool people of wallowing in self pity. Bluster in response NotMyPrimeMinister pic.