chapter thirteen

Question 1

conviction politician

Answer 1

someone who follows policies based on their own beliefs rather than because they are popular / following whats been done before

Question 2

thatchers background

Answer 2

middle class
daughter of a grocer (influenced her emphasis on self - reliance)
grammar school in the midlands
studied chemistry at oxford
active in student politics at oxford
later became a lawyer
not traditional tory leader

Question 3

what did thatcher blame for britains ills at the time of her election

Answer 3

post war consensus

Question 4

thatchers policies on u- turns

Answer 4

“the ladys not for turning”

Question 5

the new right

Answer 5

collective name for a number of academic and theoretical organisations which challenged the keynisian orthodoxy. they drew on the work of milton friedman and friedrich vvon hayeck

Question 6

think tank

Answer 6

an organisation that researches potential social, policies- can be attached to a particular ideology or be neutral

Question 7

what did the new right think would fix the economy

Answer 7

the rejection of keynesian economics
monetarism and free market economics

Question 8

how did thatcherites justify the morality of monetarism / harsh free market policies

Answer 8

saw it as moral as it targetted the ‘social decline’ many social conservatives witnessed and forced people to take responsibility and make a life for themselves

Question 9

what did thatcherites blame rising crime rates on

Answer 9

post war social liberation and the permissive society of the 1960s under labour

Question 10

wets

Answer 10

a derisive nickname given to a member of the conservative party by thatcher + thatcherites for being ‘soft and squeamish’ about monetarist economic policies- usually one nation conservatives / heath supporters

Question 11

why did thatcher have wets on her cabinet

Answer 11

anyone in the cabinet wouldnt be allowed to speak out publically against her, so she used that to silence the most vocal or popular wets

Question 12

dries

Answer 12

a nickname given to conservatives who were firm and uncompromising in their support for monetarism

Question 13

example of a wet in thatchers cabinet

Answer 13

william whitelaw (home secretary)
jim prior (employment minister)

Question 14

example of a dry in thatcher cabinet

Answer 14

geoffrey howe (chancellor exchequer)
keith joseph (department of industry)
nigel lawson + john biffen (key economic posts)

Question 15

thatchers relationship with jim prior (employment minister)

Answer 15

arguments about priors friendliness with trade unions
prior demoted to northern ireland office 1981
replaced with infamous dry norman tebbit

Question 16

how did the 1983 election effect thatcher government

Answer 16

consolidated her role as leader,

Question 17

when were the hunger strikes in NI prisons

Answer 17

1980 (led by bobby sands)

Question 18

effect of the hunger strikes in NI prisons

Answer 18

gained a lot of attention and support
the man who started it died after gaining a position in the political wing of the IRA
10 hunger strikers died before protest was called of october 1981
thatcher was very unsympathetic, making her a hate figure for NI republicans

Question 19

events from the troubles 1979-83 (with the year)

Answer 19

july 1982 - hyde park/regent park bombing; 11 soldiers killed by ira
december 1982 - bomb in NI; 11 soldiers and 6 civillians killed