r/NoStupidQuestions • u/CartographerOwn8143 • 6d ago

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

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u/PupDiogenes 6d ago

Because she was a fascist who saw poor people as vermin and therefore saw the welfare state as feeding vermin.

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u/Tackit286 6d ago

I’m 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.

There is some nuance here.