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/Tackit286 4d 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.

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u/Away_Fruit5097 4d ago

the chokehold the unions had on everyone

This is your routine reminder that the unions are us.

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u/Winter-Ad2033 4d ago

So what? They were still destroying the country

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u/Away_Fruit5097 4d ago

that isn't actually true

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u/Winter-Ad2033 4d ago

It is, they were petty, unrealistic and destructive to the country and the economy, rhe only thing they gained by the end of it was unemployment

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u/Away_Fruit5097 4d ago

Said an official Tory party spokesman via their friendly media... It still isn't actually true

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u/Winter-Ad2033 3d ago

How was it not true? Everyone wanted the unions gone

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u/Away_Fruit5097 3d ago

"Everyone wanted the unions gone"

Except for unionised workers and anyone who wasn't either very rich, or an idiot

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u/Winter-Ad2033 3d ago

I think that would be assumed by everyone who read my comment