Word: thatcherism
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...Thatcher, 61, had chosen June 11 as polling day to ride an evident swelling of Conservative Party strength. When she made the decision to take the country to the ballot box 13 months before the end of her five-year term, her party held a 13% lead over Labor in the polls. By the time the campaign got under way last week, the margin had shrunk, with polls showing the Conservatives at around 42% to Labor's 33%. The Alliance hovered...
Despite her lead, Thatcher is vulnerable, especially at a time when the British electorate has turned volatile and unpredictable. That condition has been linked by a Leeds University research center to the growing role of television in election campaigns. Moreover, Britons seem less inclined to follow a traditional pattern of voting along class lines, and they now have three rather than two major parties from which to choose. Perhaps not surprisingly, opinion polls show Thatcher to be both the most respected and the least liked of the main party leaders. While supporters regard the Prime Minister with something approaching...
Flanked by ten Cabinet ministers, Thatcher presented the Tories' 77-page program during her appearance at party headquarters. She regards the manifesto not only as the answer to her critics but also as the next phase of what she considers her unfinished revolution. In that revolution, she sees the welfare- state mentality overtaken by a renewed sense of competition and the labor unions that once challenged government authority shorn of their excessive power. Said Thatcher: "If anyone hoped to attack the Conservative Party for running out of ideas after two periods of office, this manifesto puts paid to that...
Appealing to the pocketbook vote, the Tories underlined their achievements in a slick 26-page electoral pamphlet and in a flood of positive statistics. Among the gains: two-thirds of Britons own their homes today, up from 50% when Thatcher assumed office. Car ownership has risen from 54% to 66%. The number of Britons who are stockholders has almost tripled, from 7% to 20%, and the number of those who consider themselves to belong to the middle class has increased from 30% of the population to roughly 50% over the past eight years. Inflation has been cut from...
With a huge lead in the polls, Margaret Thatcher' s Tories begin the election campaign touting the country' s "revived spirit," while Labor depicts a land of Dickensian misery and the Alliance aims for the middle. -- South Africa' s Conservative Party, the new official opposition, makes State President P. W. Botha sound like a moderate. -- Fiji faces an uncertain future...