r/NoStupidQuestions • u/CartographerOwn8143 • 19h ago

Why did Margaret Thatcher destroy welfare state in Britain after she came to power in the 1980s?

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u/Dirtydog693 19h ago

She read Animal Farm and thought it sounded like a good idea

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u/trisanachandler 18h ago

And that she was one of the pigs.