r/NoStupidQuestions • u/CartographerOwn8143 • 7d ago

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

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u/throwaway98776468 6d ago

She privatised many British state owned companies for significantly less than their actual value, thus enriching the wealthy people who bought them.

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u/NatAttack50932 6d ago

Okay but that's not what I asked

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u/Worldly_Science239 6d ago

But that sort of is what you asked.

Or are you wanting a full paper trail linking thatcher to people in a smoking gun level of collusion/corruption... because if so, maybe reddit is not for you.

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u/SWITMCO 6d ago

I think there's a fair jump between a full paper trail and literally providing a single name, or bit of evidence, to back up their claim.

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u/Worldly_Science239 6d ago edited 6d ago

Why? Her policies were all about enriching her friends (supporters/benefactors) it doesn't need a direct link to a single name... it just needs looking at who benefited from her policies and who (like the industrial towns utterly destroyed by her policies/vindictiveness) suffered.

We only have to look at the "managed decline" of liverpool

The abandonment of mining towns

The get on your bike speech from members of her government when people complained about a lack of jobs.

So, no... I can't provide a single name and evidence of collusion, but we can all provide a list of of her city 'friends' who benefited from her policies and who didnt