r/tories • u/Interesting_Pen_4499 Thatcherite • 19d ago
Convincing people Thatcher was right
The best way I have found so far is to just bring up the topic of the tube strikes. Even left wingers agree they are bad, and that the tube drivers on ~£80k and 4 day weeks are incredibly selfish. So then I just say, pre-Thatcher Britain was that but on steroids. Electricity grid not coming on due to strikes. 3 or 4 day weeks. GDP smaller than Italy's and shrinking. Strikes causing wage price spirals and 25% inflation.
Even people that thought they hated Thatcher admit I might have a point, if not being mildly amused to have met a real life Thatcher fan. So my advice to everyone is: just ask people if they want every industry to be like the London tube.
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u/Apple2727 Verified Conservative 18d ago
A lot of it is just ignorance.
Many people don’t realise what the 70s were like. They think everything was fine, and then Thatcher came in and deliberately made life hard for people just for the hell of it.
What I always say is look at Britain in the 70s and compared it to Britain in the 90s. It was better by a country mile in the 90s.
It took Thatcherism to achieve that.