Word: thatcherism
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...Thatcher calls a snap election...
...campaign will be brief, but the election will present British voters with their starkest choice in a half-century. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has steered her Conservative Party hard to the right over the past four years. At the same time, the Labor Party, under the lackluster and ineffectual leadership of Michael Foot, offers a platform that is more leftist than ever before. The Social Democratic Party/Liberal Alliance, which is competing in general elections for the first time, adds a new element of uncertainty to the contest. Said Labor M.P. Tony Benn: "This is going to be the most fundamental...
...classic symptoms were in evidence. The political Establishment had polished up its manifestoes, printed new campaign posters and raised partisan invective to libelous levels. Labor Party Leader Michael Foot had had his shaggy locks trimmed. Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had had her teeth capped. The country was, in short, coming down with ballot-box fever. Nearly everyone expected Thatcher to call a general election for next month, al most a year before her five-year term runs out. Thatcher was mum on the subject, so the nation looked for omens, above all in local elections that took place last...
Armed with that wisdom, Thatcher and her chief lieutenants scheduled an election-strategy session for Sunday at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country retreat. Thatcher was under pressure from Tory backbenchers to schedule a vote as early as next month. A snap election, they argued, would catch the rival major parties in disarray and take advantage of an improving economy. Others argued that a hasty vote would only damage the Prime Minister's credibility, which rests largely on a reputation for doggedly staying the course. Thatcher refused to discuss any date whatsoever. While the nation braced...
...into account when people talk about how the world is going to be run." No plains exist for wartime use of French weapons integrated with the rest of NATO. The British force by contrast would be completely integrated with NATO forces in the event of an emergency. But Mrs. Thatcher's government also feels that Britain "should have its own nuclear strike force so as not to be completely dependent upon the Americans...