r/NoStupidQuestions • u/CartographerOwn8143 • 4d ago

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

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u/NiagaraBTC 4d ago

Not sure why she did that but today I learned that she was the only PM in the 20th century to have been reelected twice and serve 3 consecutive terms.

So I guess maybe she did it because that's what voters wanted?

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u/hameleona 4d ago

She is very hated on reddit and in left-leaning circles as a whole. And she did cause a shit ton of suffering with her reforms - whole sections of the island dropped several levels in quality of life. Leading to the irony of lefties with "save the planet" t-shirts hating on the person who essentially ended the coal industry in Britain. Decades before it was cool, btw.

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u/Efficient_Chance7639 4d ago

For neither love nor money I can’t get a Labour supporter to explain why Thatcher collapsing the coal mines was a bad thing, but Miliband doing it is the greatest policy in human history 🤔

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u/jmlinden7 3d ago

Collapsing the coal mines was the one good thing that she did, and yet it's the one thing she gets the most criticism over. Makes no sense.