Word: thatcherism
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...came out in Britain last week after five gloomy months, but it was not shining on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. First there had been local elections in early May in which her Conservatives took a severe drubbing from the Social Democratic/Liberal Alliance. Then came a dark cloud of budding insurrection from within the Tory party, and finally the thunderclap of a new Gallup poll that showed how far the Conservatives have fallen. For the first time since their slump preceding the Falklands war in 1982, the Tories ranked third in a poll, trailing, at 30.5%, behind Labor...
...political opponents. It stands in danger of being sunk by its own shells." Though Pym praised the Prime Minister for her "courage and determination" and insisted that the new caucus would not be disloyal to the party and its leadership, his sharp criticism was hardly the view of a Thatcher partisan...
Downing Street's reaction was one of carefully orchestrated scorn. A senior Thatcher aide dismissed Pym as a "rejected" minister making one last effort to achieve the party leadership. As for the C.C.F., said the aide, it is "enormously long on criticism and extremely short on prescriptions, except to spend more money...
...Thatcher supporters could hardly deny that the news, at least for the moment, was uniformly bad. In the county council balloting on May 2, the Conservatives lost almost 200 seats in their worst showing in years. Jobs in the manufacturing sector fell by 11,000 last month, fueling criticism of the government's austerity prescriptions even from a member of Thatcher's Cabinet. Energy Minister Peter Walker, a moderate who is a contender to succeed Thatcher, advocated drastic action to combat the 13.5% unemployment rate. Until recently, Britain's low inflation index had been one of the government's points...
...incredibly lucky timing is clearly part of the Madonna craze. As it happens, few other big rock stars are diluting media attention. Also the neoconservative mood of the kid culture seems to be just right for an entertainer whose personality is an outrageous blend of Little Orphan Annie, Margaret Thatcher and Mae West...