Thatcher

Which economist influenced Margaret Thatcher?

• Freidman

• Hayek

• Marx

• Smith

MT thought the free market was the best way to bring about these two things

• Political and social freedom

• Personal and economic freedom

• Political and economic freedom

• Macdonalds and Burger King

Margaret Thatcher ended this

• Hope and joy

• Post war consensus

• Mining

• Decline of the British empire

Mrs Thatcher believed that the post war consensus had led to low growth, inefficiency, and a __________ __________

Thatcher believed these three things were caused by high levels of government spending

• borrowing, recession, inflation

• high taxes, borrowing, and inflation

• low taxes, borrowing, and inflation

• unfair taxes, deflation, and borrowing

Thatcher believed these two things led to high inflation and a lack of competitiveness

• wets and Labour

• coal miners and dockers

• post war consensus and socialism

• weak management and powerful unions

Thatcher created a huge amount of unemployment. From 1982 to 1987 there was over 3 million people unemployed in the UK.

• True

• False

Who told the rioters in Brixton, Liverpool, and elsewhere to "get on their bike" and look for work?

• Nigel Lawson

• Norman Tebbit

• Geoffrey Howe

• Neil Kinnock

The word used to describe MPs who were against radical reform.

• Dries

• Communists

• Wets

• Marxists

When someone makes the most out of an event or crisis.

• Political opportunism

• Ideological

• Dogmatic

• Pragmatism