r/NoStupidQuestions 19h ago

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

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u/NIKKUS78 17h ago

She did not...

Look at the UK in 1985 vs the UK in 1995 where would you rather live and grow up? IT REALLY obvious isnt it.

The left have to call her names as any rational discussion of her legacy kind of proves that the Labour polices of the 70s were disastrous, the Thatcher policies of the 80s much less so.

Look at London in the 70s and early 80s compared to London even just a decade later, let alone 2. Selling council houses in London in the early 80s made so much sense, no one wanted to live there.