1983 General Election and the ''Golden Age'' of Thatcherism

A look at the 1983 General Election, which saw Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives form a second consecutive government, with a majority of 144 in the House of Commons.

Thatcher's second administration of 1983-1987 is seen by many of her supporters as a "Golden Age" and the period during which she was at her most powerful and popular.

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• 1980s
• 1983
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[billyysands]

the labour party in 1983 deserved to lose

[unrealharry]

Wrecked your life? Gordon Brown and Blair have destroyed all of the ENGLISH peoples lives!

[forsythbill1]

Obviously as a Scottish nationalist I have mixed views about her she was perhaps, as an English nationalist, the best thing yet for Scottish nationalism,incidentally Blair is English.

[midlantica]

Thank you Maggie :)

[Threepwoodist]

@jayou77 Well that's never going to happen, and I laugh at your loss. She'll be dead soon, and I'll throw a party when she finally dies. You can come if you want.

[Dalek1230]

@jasonleigh1974 GO TO BLOODY WORK , then you can get hundreds of them

[jayou77]

Good ol Maggie, i'd have her back tomorrow (obviously not in her present condition!)

[sargcullen1]

@billyysands I agree. In 1983 the Labour Leader Michael Foot promised to abolish the House of Lords, to also disarm all nuclear weapons, withdrawal from the EEC (precursor to the European Union) and renationalisation of almost every privatized British Industry (e.g. British Aerospace, British Shipbuilding Company). If Michael Foot won 1983 with a large enough majority, then Britain would probably have slipped below being a Super Power to a Great Power. Thank-you to everyone that voted Tory in 83

[Schniddo]

A Tory talking about the French Revolution... it's enough to make me vom over my keyboard

[Schniddo]

@UnitedBritannia "was he right about that?"

err... yes?

[17Hongo]

"In 1983, Margaret Thatcher gave her re election speech while giving the V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She talked about economic boosts and a new age, while telling the nation to f*** off at the same time. In the coming years, little would change" - John O' Farrell

[17Hongo]

@jasonleigh1974 she wrecked everywhere that wasn't the south east. Unwilling to wait for the industry to develop naturally, she shut down all the raw materials and manufacture industries, in the hope that the country would develop. Of course, it wouldn't; it didn't have the money. As a result, The north and south west of England, Scotland and Wales all became massive unemployment concentrations.