Word: thatcherism
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...nearly 21 years after his resignation as Prime Minister in 1963, he abjured all titles, preferring to remain just plain "Mr." But on his 90th birthday Harold Macmillan finally gave in to the repeated entreaties of Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and three weeks later, on Feb. 29, 1984, he was introduced into the House of Lords. He chose the title Earl of Stockton, after the working-class district in northern England that he had once represented as a Conservative Member of Parliament. Last week the Great Commoner, as he liked to be known...
...managed to produce six volumes of memoirs. He was awarded the Order of Merit, one of Britain's most coveted honors, in 1976. In an interview with the BBC in October 1983, Macmillan showed that he still possessed one of the sharpest wits in British politics. He suggested that Thatcher should not become too worried about inflation, not work too hard and not read the newspapers. He also advised her not to take herself too seriously...
...final years Macmillan concluded that Thatcherism was no laughing matter. From 1984 on, the Tory mandarin made several speeches critical of Thatcher's brand of conservatism. Her program of privatization was the political equivalent of selling off the family silver, Macmillan said, and her confrontational style was inappropriate at a time when Britain needed a "wartime spirit of national unity...
...welcome he deserved, under the slogan "Protest Strikebreaker Kinnock." In solidarity with the British miners, whose strike Kinnock helped to break, we sought to expose his role as a labor-faking, class betrayer of workers and Celtic people, particularly during the miners' bitterly fought 12-months long battle against Thatcher's government. Kinnock endorsed racist cop terror against Black people in Britain when he laid a wreath last month at the grave of a racist cop, killed during the brutal police occupation of a London ghetto...
...government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has opposed sanctions against South Africa on the ground that they hurt the country's blacks as much as they do its white rulers, but had no comment on Barclays' action. Privately, some British officials were not pleased. Said one senior government aide: "If South Africa has picked up a valuable asset on the cheap, it can't exactly be seen as a major blow to the country...