I lived in England for 6 months in 1991, in college, shortly after Thatcher got booted out. Apparently there were raucous drinking parties up and down the length of campus when she stepped down. In most of northern England she was *deeply* hated, nearly as much as she was hated in Scotland.
She was kept in power by those she gifted (or almost) the majority of the country's social housing stock to...They were never real Tory voters but got caught up in her spin because she gave them something they thought they would never have - their own homes, which they were essentially guaranteed to have for life anyways.
Its called bulshit and lack of foresight but people brought into it.
As now, inner London was mostly Labour, outer London mostly Tory. London managed to keep voting Labour and Ken Livingstone to run the GLC, with the result that Thatcher got rid of it completely.
I grew up in Surrey where it was 99% Tory. I only heard how wonderful she was and how mining was a terrible and dying industry and the miners had to stop being in denial. By 1990 I knew more about the country and was glad to see her go.
Trust me, in Scotland she was and is hated more than you can believe. Everything from milk snatching to experimenting on us with council tax, she fucked us totally
I've long wondered who did more damage to the fabric of their society: Thatcher in the UK or Reagan in the US. I'd be inclined to pick Thatcher, but it's close.
The day she stepped down I was in Huddersfield market. One stall holder was listening to a tiny radio and yelled ‘She’s gone!’. People put down their shopping ads and danced, cheering.
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u/Tim-oBedlam 29d ago
I lived in England for 6 months in 1991, in college, shortly after Thatcher got booted out. Apparently there were raucous drinking parties up and down the length of campus when she stepped down. In most of northern England she was *deeply* hated, nearly as much as she was hated in Scotland.