文档介绍：Recent Political Trends
UK policy on
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Recent Political Trends
low growth bankrupt end
In 1970s high inflation
inefficiency strikes
In 1979 from Labor
government to
Conservative government
Margaret Thatcher became
the first woman prime
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Minister
Margaret Thatcher: served
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as british Prime minister
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from 1979 to 1990
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Questions for discussion
Why was Margaret Thatcher
called"the iron lady
What kind of policies did she
carry out when she was the
Prime Minister?
Margaret Thatcher was elected as the leader of th
Conservative Party and her resolution in carrying out the
policies gained her the " iron Lady her way of doing
things was termed thatcherism". she bought to the
party a completelt new set of goals and strategies
M. Thatcher was a radical in conservative terms, committed
to the idea of small government and free-market
economics, and less concerned with being fatherly
1. She dismissed as the " nanny state
a. encouraging laziness and discouraging entrepreneurship
b. privatization of nationalized industry(国家工业私有化
2. She advocated free-enterprise and private
the state-owned enterprises were sold to privale n
ownership. Under her leadership more than 2/3
people and the number of private share holders
tripled during her administration
3. She also adopted anti-union policies because she
believed that the union's strikes posed an obstacle
for economic development
4. In foreign policy Thatcher supported strong ties with
the united states and kept distance from the
European Union
*+ The result of her policy
Her rigorous push for privatization of industries and
market economy did not solve the economic
probl
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Positive aspect: efficient and profitable
Negative aspect: increased unemployment a less
equal society with more rich people and more pool
people
For the government
It is from big government socialism to free market
ndividualism
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