o) Did Thatcher effectively roll back the public sector?

Thatcher’s instinctive moral position was that state intervention was bad because it destroyed independence and limited people's work ethic, in other words...

    

• Dependency upon the state by the poorest

• Crushing of innovation in business and industry

• High levels of taxation, which drained the wealth of successful individuals

• ‘creeping socialism’ in the Conservative party via the post war consensus

Thatcher’s instinctive moral position was that state intervention was bad because it stopping companies developing new ideas and strategies, in other words...

    

• Dependency upon the state by the poorest

• Crushing of innovation in business and industry

• High levels of taxation, which drained the wealth of successful individuals

• ‘creeping socialism’ in the Conservative party via the post war consensus

Thatcher’s instinctive moral position was that state intervention was bad because in order to pay for it governments had to increase revenue to the detriment of successful people, in other words...

    

• Dependency upon the state by the poorest

• Crushing of innovation in business and industry

• High levels of taxation, which drained the wealth of successful individuals

• ‘creeping socialism’ in the Conservative party via the post war consensus

Thatcher’s instinctive moral position was that state intervention was bad because undermined the true ideology of the Conservative Party, in other words...

    

• Dependency upon the state by the poorest

• Crushing of innovation in business and industry

• High levels of taxation, which drained the wealth of successful individuals

• there was ‘creeping socialism’ in the Conservative party via the post war consensus

Thatcher’s ideology on the role of the state in public services and the economy can be summarised as...

• Neo-Liberalism; the belief that the free market is better at allocating goods and resources than the state.

• TINA; There Is No Alternative, meaning by 1979 the post war consensus had failed and different path was needed

• Keynesianism; governments should borrow and spend their way out of economic problems

One of Thatcher’s criteria for success regarding the size of the state was to do with government expenditure, more specifically...

     

• Less government spending

• Contacting out

• Privatisation

• Lower taxes

One of Thatcher’s criteria for success regarding the size of the state was to do with councils hiring private companies to fulfil some services, more specifically...

     

• Less government spending

• Contacting out

• Privatisation

• Lower taxes

One of Thatcher’s criteria for success regarding the size of the state was to do with selling off nationalised industries and companies, more specifically...

     

• Less government spending

• Contacting out

• Privatisation

• Lower taxes

One of Thatcher’s criteria for success regarding the size of the state was to do with reducing the amount of revenue raised from companies and individuals, more specifically...

     

• Less government spending

• Contacting out

• Privatisation

• Lower taxes

Thatcher aimed to reduce the size of the Civil Service by implementing Michael Heseltine's system for measuring the efficiency of the Civil Service, more specifically...

• MINIS allowed the cost of the civil service to be monitored.

•        Businessmen offered advice on cost cutting and efficiencies.

• MINIS led to the sacking of 25% of the civil service un the Environment Ministry

• The Civil Service Department was abolished in 1981