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Political change in the Conservative party from Thatcherism

Just need some help on the question “how far has the current Conservative party abandoned Thatcherism”

Currently I’m struggling to find economical reasons for and against
Mrs Thatcher supported the free movement of people in the EU, the single market and probably the expansion of the EU into former Warsaw Pact countries. Very different from the ERG views of today.
They lost their spine since Thatcher days
Original post by DSutch
Mrs Thatcher supported the free movement of people in the EU, the single market and probably the expansion of the EU into former Warsaw Pact countries. Very different from the ERG views of today.

Thatcher was a eurosceptic. Times were different back then but she voiced opposition to UK joining the euro etc
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She campaigned for a yes vote in the EEC referendum
Original post by Cartef
She campaigned for a yes vote in the EEC referendum

literally nobody asked you

do some research. she was a eurosceptic, times were different back then though. pretty sure it was just an economic community, but she recognised it was all a political union and the euro was not about economics, it was about ever closer political union and centralisation of powers
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Original post by Cartef
Just need some help on the question “how far has the current Conservative party abandoned Thatcherism”

Currently I’m struggling to find economical reasons for and against

The simple answer is that they largely have not as evidenced by the continuation of Thatcherism under John Major and the reduction in the size of the state and certain taxes under Cameron.

May herself looks like she might represent a break with Thatcherism in the sense that she supports a more interventionist state economically but Brexit has dominated the agenda (in addition to the reduced majority) such that we cannot really tell at this time.
Original post by OldGamesBetter
literally nobody asked you

do some research. she was a eurosceptic, times were different back then though. pretty sure it was just an economic community, but she recognised it was all a political union and the euro was not about economics, it was about ever closer political union and centralisation of powers

It's truer to say that she 'became' a euro-skeptic. The OP is correct that Thatcher had no real issue with the single market (treaties pre-Maastrhrict), customs union membership and free movement of people at the time.

Were she alive today then it's not outside the realms of possibility that she would not be supporting the extent of an ERG Brexit but something more like EFTA (Granted, that's like saying that if Marx was alive today he would not have been a racist).

In hindsight though i do wonder if like many of us, she'd have considered joining in the first place to be a mistake.
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Can you think of any economic policies that haven’t changed over time? (Apart from taxes being low for the individual)
(edited 5 years ago)
Reply 8
Hi, I'd maybe talk about government intervention in markets under Cameron and May. For example the sugar tax under Cameron and the May's commitments to have workers on boards and cap energy prices, more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39946611

Hope this helps!

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