'I Can't Bear Britain In Decline, I Just Can't'...

Margaret Thatcher was a new kind of Conservative in British politics, a true-believing, Friedrich von Hayek-quoting enemy of what she saw as the excesses of the welfare state, of the unions that seemed to run it and of the mass of socialist encrustations that had formed on the Labor Party’s left wing in the years after World War II. She thought that statism was crushing the nation’s economy, destroying the morale of its people and rapidly diminishing its standing in the world. Apparently a good many Britons agreed with her, though not necessarily with her fervent embrace of the total conservative ideology. The country was ready for a break with the postwar past, and Mrs. Thatcher’s party had the good sense to see in her the forcefulness, conviction and eloquence that could bring it off.

Mrs. Thatcher’s great domestic battles as prime minister were waged against the institutional left and its supporters among the British intelligentsia, which meant of course that they were extremely e

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2013-04-08 08:47:48

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