Margaret thatcher can you hear me

The attendant loss of civic trust and social cohesion was no less real for being unquantifiable. Whole landscapes — the Victorian landscape of textile mills, tall chimneys, docks, pitheads, shipyards, and terraced houses — were obliterated.

Got it. Did she actually have a tense relationship with the royals? As Alwyn Turner writes in Rejoice! It was marked by conflict against the Establishment on all fronts — not just manor-born Tories and cultural elites, but also the civil service and the Church of England. What about the Falklands? Probably not. Anyway, one doubts Thatcher would have needed a Freudian excuse to go to war for the islands. While other members of her party feared becoming embroiled in a South Atlantic quagmire, she leapt into the conflict with self-consciously Churchillian gusto.

It also rose in , when Thatcher narrowly escaped being blown up by the IRA, an incident the show neglects to include.

If she was so unpopular, how did she stay in office for 11 years? Great question! It was a disaster. In the years that followed, Labour moderates would attempt to purge the party of its more militant tendencies — often literally. But her supporters were not limited to Essex day traders and Murdoch acolytes. Her whole ethos was about you being more enterprising and getting on with it.

Why did she finally get the sack? Why did the backbenchers revolt? Part of it was the economy, which had crashed again in And part of it was her disagreements with her ministers over how much Britain should engage economically with the rest of Europe — which, spoiler alert, would come up again later.

Although she planned to pursue a political career, Thatcher graduated from Oxford University in with a chemistry degree. After a stint as a research chemist for a plastics company, Thatcher worked as a food scientist at J.

Lyons and Co. The breakthrough led to the production of soft-serve ice cream, which was dished out from trucks across Great Britain under the brand Mr.

Receiving Presidential Medal Of Freedom. Credit: George Bush Presidential Library. Thatcher, who was one of the first female presidents of the Oxford University Conservative Association, gained the notice of the Conservative Party soon after her graduation.

As a year-old, she was the youngest candidate to stand for a seat in the House of Commons during the election of Although defeated, she garnered considerable media attention and praise for cutting the Labour majority by a third.

She lost in Dartford again in , but she finally won a seat in Parliament after running in the staunchly Conservative district of Finchley in northern London in After marrying wealthy, divorced businessman Denis Thatcher in , Margaret gave up her scientific career. Thatcher underwent intensive training with the coach to lower her pitch and perfect a calm, authoritative tone that served her well in her political career.

After leading her party to victory in , she won re-election in and