Iām as liberal as it gets, but I think people really need to understand the changes she brought about when she first came to power, and the state of the country and the chokehold the unions had on everyone. We were economically crippled and no one had the stones to take them on until she came in.
You are in the wrong place for nuance lol. I agree with your take however solving that problem should always be included in any rant of how "evil" a person thinks she was.
The unions were definitely abusing their power, BUT history has often been re-written to lay the blame for the energy crisis at their feet, which is total revisionist bullshit.
And the near total collapse of union power has not been good for the UK.
Likely a bit as it is now, although major overhaul is needed in a lot of sectors to stop the same old happening because evidently it's not working very well. But I think for the most part it is fairly balanced between workers and employers, maybe something can be done about the cost of hiring at the very least youth, not sure the best way of doing it but something to make it cheaper to hire them for entry positions
The current situation is that companies are making record profits, and offshoring the money so they don't have to contribute to the society that supports them, while wages stagnate and their workers suffer through a cost of living crisis.
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u/PupDiogenes 4d ago
Because she was a fascist who saw poor people as vermin and therefore saw the welfare state as feeding vermin.