Margaret Thatcher and the Thatcherism
Margaret Thatcher and the Thatcherism
(A short summary of Margaret Thatcher’s policy)
University of Miskolc
Göncző-Dutkay Renáta
English teacher – MA
Correspondence student
Introduction
Margaret Thatcher - the British prime minister of the 1980’s – entered into the history as an epoch-making politician. She was a controversial, but sometimes irresistible person, who was rated as a pattern in other countries too by the believers of the strict and purposeful governance. Her three-time election (and the fourth one of her party after her resignation) conveyed that impression all around the world that Margaret Thatcher worked with total public satisfaction. It seemed that the conservative politics marked with her name found the economic and political antidote of the age-long British deterioration, and this balm can be used and imported in other countries too. But sometimes these statements seem a little bit superficial. In my essay I would like to examine these questions and of course the effect of Margaret Thatcher’s era on the UK and other countries too.
Born capitalist
Mrs. Thatcher was born in 1925 as Margaret Hilda Roberts in a small English rural town, Grantham. Her family operated a grocery. Margaret learnt the actuation of the business as a young lady and experienced the existing capitalism and the advantages and disadvantages of the real competition. Her ideal was Winston Churchill. She got a scholarship in Oxford, and after the World War II she become the member of the conservative university club none the less the others turned left. Later she started to work in politics: she became a representative in the Parliament in 1959, a Social Insurance Under-Secretary in 1961 and a Minister of Education in 1970 in the Tory Heath government.
By and by she disliked any kind of governmental expenditures, and after her ministerial appointment one of her arrangements was the elimination of the free school
(A short summary of Margaret Thatcher’s policy)
University of Miskolc
Göncző-Dutkay Renáta
English teacher – MA
Correspondence student
Introduction
Margaret Thatcher - the British prime minister of the 1980’s – entered into the history as an epoch-making politician. She was a controversial, but sometimes irresistible person, who was rated as a pattern in other countries too by the believers of the strict and purposeful governance. Her three-time election (and the fourth one of her party after her resignation) conveyed that impression all around the world that Margaret Thatcher worked with total public satisfaction. It seemed that the conservative politics marked with her name found the economic and political antidote of the age-long British deterioration, and this balm can be used and imported in other countries too. But sometimes these statements seem a little bit superficial. In my essay I would like to examine these questions and of course the effect of Margaret Thatcher’s era on the UK and other countries too.
Born capitalist
Mrs. Thatcher was born in 1925 as Margaret Hilda Roberts in a small English rural town, Grantham. Her family operated a grocery. Margaret learnt the actuation of the business as a young lady and experienced the existing capitalism and the advantages and disadvantages of the real competition. Her ideal was Winston Churchill. She got a scholarship in Oxford, and after the World War II she become the member of the conservative university club none the less the others turned left. Later she started to work in politics: she became a representative in the Parliament in 1959, a Social Insurance Under-Secretary in 1961 and a Minister of Education in 1970 in the Tory Heath government.
By and by she disliked any kind of governmental expenditures, and after her ministerial appointment one of her arrangements was the elimination of the free school
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