M18CTID
Well-Known Member
Regarding the view that she fucked over the working classes, how do you define working class anyway? I'd imagine many millions of people came under the "working class" bracket and plenty of them certainly did get a raw deal as evidenced by the huge rise in unemployment figures in the early part of her reign.
However, millions more ordinary working class people must've done well for themselves while she was PM because how else do we explain why she convincingly won 3 elections on the bounce? Not everyone that voted for her was an upper class snob because those types of people would've always voted Tory anyway so she must've garnered a huge chunk of support from other, less well off, backgrounds. The figures just don't seem to stack up otherwise.
I'll add that I'm on the fence regarding Thatcher - if anything the one policy of hers that affected me the most was the Poll Tax which blew a huge hole in the low wage I was on at the time so I'm far from an apologist of hers. I just see the pros and cons of her reign and am largely indifferent to it all.
However, millions more ordinary working class people must've done well for themselves while she was PM because how else do we explain why she convincingly won 3 elections on the bounce? Not everyone that voted for her was an upper class snob because those types of people would've always voted Tory anyway so she must've garnered a huge chunk of support from other, less well off, backgrounds. The figures just don't seem to stack up otherwise.
I'll add that I'm on the fence regarding Thatcher - if anything the one policy of hers that affected me the most was the Poll Tax which blew a huge hole in the low wage I was on at the time so I'm far from an apologist of hers. I just see the pros and cons of her reign and am largely indifferent to it all.