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Thatcher and the 'New Right' - Coggle Diagram
Thatcher and the 'New Right'
Social
Was dismissive of the permissive society of the 1960s
Norman Tebbit made a speech in 1985 in which he claimed that the permissive society was responsible for a surge in crime.
Emphasised the importance of family values-believed that everyone should be a nuclear middle class family.
A change from upper class toryism-wanted to distribute more wealth and power down from the upper class to the middle
Thatcherism was very much in touch in with middle class values.
Individual responsibility
Self improvement-people should be encouraged to to be aspirational.
People should take responsibility for their actions
To this extent the government should not intervene in peoples lives to much.
People should not be reliant on the government to provide for them
Borderline authoritarian with huge amounts invested in policing and tear gas first used in 1981
Strong emphasis on law and order
Economic
The new rights place in the Tory party
Wets and drys
dry supported thatcher and the break from the post war consensus such as Howe,Tebbit and Lawson
wets maintained traditional conservative policies and wanted to maintain the post war consensus such as Prior, Hesseltine and Whitelaw
Thatcher was dismissive of the tory grandees