The typical
Thatcherist motto that there is no such thing as society reduces social problems such as unemployment and crime to "individual irresponsibility" rather than treating them as systemic malfunctions.
That was my point, not whether we need
Thatcherist policies, though for my money a forceful new 'Lady with a handbag' would only be a positive influence on Europe and help balance out today's Germany-led discipline."
That was my point, not whether we need
Thatcherist policies, though for my money a forceful new "Lady with a handbag" would only be a positive influence on Europe and help balance out today's Germany-led disciplinarianism.
Contrary to Stuart Hall's usages of the term for conceptualizing
Thatcherist political discourse (Hall 1979: 15-17; cf Hall 1985) delineating the latter as an undemocratic ideological content, our approach tries to discern "authoritarian populism" as a form of articulation.
Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell's contribution--arguably the best in the collection--traces the dissemination of neo-liberal thought through the knowledge production of
Thatcherist think-tanks in the U.K.
The Deputy PM was immediately accused of "backdoor privatisation" and following "
Thatcherist" ideas.
Yet each of the features that distinguish Israel from its neighbors "are deteriorating as Israel becomes a
Thatcherist and semifascist regime" (p.
Chapter six explores the new wave of popular resistance to evictions, and chapter seven critiques attempts to "solve" the problem through the classically
Thatcherist method of selling off sub-economic housing.
In his account of the success of
Thatcherist ideology, Hall explains how monetarism was translated from a "theoretical ideology into a populist idiom" of moralism connected to a notion of Britishness ("Great Moving Right Show" 2 8-9).
His former role as a trades union activist places him among a group that became a primary opponent to
Thatcherist policies: "[...]trade unions, whose commitment to collective rights and blanket protect ions stood in direct conflict with her (Thatcher's) belief in the unrestricted play of free markets.
But just as the
Thatcherist political era extolled the virtue of selelp and seletterment, so the comedy culture produced a procession of stand-alone comics.
Heath was leader and prime minister but his period of power is seen as an unhappy coda to the Attlee-Macmillan-Butler post-war policies to be utterly discarded by the
Thatcherist triumphalism.