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Financial Times also criticised Thatcher's to tackle unemployment, solve the problem of public expenditure, or deal effectively the underlying economic problems of the economy. It pointed out, as did the Standard, that Peter Walker, the Energy Secretary, represented "alternative Tory Party'.
It is beyond doubt that the ruling class is getting There Is or course. nu serious move to ditch Thatcher. But the danger signals for fundamental reason for this shift is the fact that Thatcher, despite appalling levels unemployment the tacks on the welfare state and the anti-union laws has not succeeded in makqualitative shift in the balance of forces betthe classes. The miners' strike has exacted an enormous cost, The reality is that to win the strike, the Tories had to rely more on the vulcaulial' than on the power of the the police They were not able to impose a 1926 style settlewith agreements forced on the union, selective re-employment, so on. There seems little The major of national politic will be sharply posed, in the issue For Labour Party the issue will be whether it can put torbooths, she is beginning to lose friends at the top that the country wanted 'evidence of humanity as will achieve Wing class now.
They union laws, ticular hopes of leadership direct confrontation succeed the ed their of at- will be prepared face necessary. has ings of a of table* the LORICS will prospect that the Tories such breakthrough for the rul will of to ple on the pressure through the antithe political funds, and attacks on parsections. ones inflicting decisive defeat are not going to be realised. Thatcher has pursued a strategy of ignoring the trade union and going for If that is not going to ruling needs to start looking al alternatives. A safety net is necessary. In particular it is necessary to involve the trade union leadership to a greater degree. They proy.
the and they needed again before the ground can be for the next Moreover, if the Tory base in the country is not to be eroded even more by the Alliance a more human SOUI be Hence the rehabilitation of the wets. Thatcher is not going to be ditched in the short term But her failure, even atter the most colossal battle for 60 years to break the working class, and her deep unpopularity in the country provoked the crisis that will not be easily resolved.
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to exact a price on the Tory government. It is not merely that Thatcher is losing support at the polling
after the County Council elections Th London Standard, formerly one of Thatcher's mos sycophantic supporters warned that the results were 'more than just a mid-term malaise'. They showed
well as efficiency, from a government which, years into Mrs Thatcher's administration, has so far