Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography
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She was working in the shadow government in the 1960s with Keith Joseph and Keith had introduced her to Enoch’s thought. That’s the only thing that’s missing from the book, simply because when he was writing the first volumes not everything was out. Above all, Charles has presented to the world a completely honest and accurate account of Margaret Thatcher. She was a conviction politician with a total self belief, but she used experts when she wasn't sure -ie allowing the armed forces to run the Falkland campaign with minimal political interference. I remember Ralph Harris saying to me—and he got this from Hayek—’If you pay people to be unemployed, you’ll have unemployment.
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but this book was incredibly thorough and for me as someone who was 12 years old when she came to power and grew up with her as Prime Minister, pretty fascinating to find out all the background on what happened behind the scenes. Obviously Mrs Thatcher was old enough to remember when we had had an empire, but because she wasn’t anti-American she had a different view about co-operating with America. Yet at moments of crisis, she occasionally adopted a crab-like attitude of trying to side-step decision making, whilst showing a face of unbroken determination to the outside world. Ayn Rand said that the difference between the welfare state and a totalitarian state is “only a matter of time.Moore, given free access to her and her papers with no restrictions on his text, has supplemented this with numerous interviews and other sources that delivers for the reader a interesting, insightful and well-written account of her birth in 1926 to the ending of the Falklands Conflict in 1982. I duly came up with a list mixing moderately literati fiction with frothy gay fun, and at last check in, 20 years on, he's on about number six. Margaret Thatcher's home and early life in Grantham played a large part in forming her political convictions. Our generation had been so profoundly affected by the incompetence of governments and the tyranny of trade unions that we knew something had to change. The catastrophic moment for him was 20 February 1947, the night that Clement Attlee got up in the House of Commons and said that Britain would be leaving India on 15 August.
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She believed that a strict implementation of Monetarism was necessary to overcome the economic ills of inflation and low growth, which she blamed on the previous Labour government. On another occasion, in 1994, my wife and I were invited to the opening of the new stand at Towcester Racecourse by Lord Hesketh. The IMF agreed with him, which is why they stopped Healey spending money in 1976 and introduced massive spending cuts. Simon Heffer is a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and a Professor at the University of Buckingham. Apparently it was an Army phrase—it referred to the practice of very junior officers having to do their own laundry.There was a boom in wealth, and a very ostentatious boom, in the south of England and it took a long time to go north.
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And I think she rather enjoyed it when people got cross with her, particularly if they were in the medical profession. Although she was bitter about her perceived betrayal, she left an unprecedented mark on the UK economic and political landscape. He must have meant several holidays because he usual fare, The Motley Fool Guide to Miser-ness and lists of tennis championships, kept him occupied most of the time. He wanted Britain to be strongly defended, but to exist in Lord Salisbury-style ‘splendid isolation,’ not getting involved in other peoples’ fights.
She was elected to Parliament in 1959 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley, a north London constituency, which she continued to represent until she was made a member of the House of Lords (as Baroness Thatcher) in 1992. Was she close to Enoch Powell in the 1960s, or was she just quietly sympathetic, or was she actually not converted at that stage?
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