PROBLEMS FOR Thatcher from within the ruling class are now coming thick and fast.
Is Young Conservative Thatcher herself has continued to slide down the 'amazing' it is that only three years after her 1,983 landslide Thatcher should find herself discover the reasons for the sudden outburst of questioning of Thatcher's leadership.
First Thatcher did not win a popular mandate in 1983. Her vote, at 42 per cent, was the lowest real percentage of support for a prime minister history. It was the freaks of the British electoral system, not popular support for the Tories, that produced Thatcher's overwhelming majority in Second Thatcher's own immediate economic base is slipping away by the day in the North The entire policies of Thatcherism were made possible by the tax revenue and exports of North Sea oil. With the price of oil having fallen by almost half in the four months Nigel Lawson projected tax cutting budget for March is already The falling oil price interrelates with another Despite the enormous suffered by the trade unions since 1979, Thatcher has not imposed anything like the defeat on the working class which she required for her The theory of Thatcherism was simple. While the oil revenues flowed in the exchange rate of the pound soared and exchange controls were lifted. A flood of money poured out of the country as British capitalism enormously expanded its coloniu remorseless international competition.
The theory went that as the oil ran out the exchange rate of the pound would decline again and manufacturing exports revitalised manufacturing sector would 'fill domestic sectors of the economy would be revivon domestic manufacturing surviving to "fill the gap' and on a truly crushing defeat being suflower exchange rate of the pound means that the WOrK one which in reality poses no threat to Hammond's OI Financial Times, was able directions on how to handle its approach to unless and until an agreement is reached between raunch.
recruitment, directly or inUnions in particular by the Many AFTER A 13½-HOUR meeting last week, the 51 leadership of the EETPU guilty of five of the seven charges brought against the union as a result of its conduct at the News International plant. But the crucial move by the NUR and ASLEF to toughen-up the TUC's directive to the electricians was lost by a This would have instructed the EETPU to tell its members to 'refrain from undertaking work normally done by other print unions', in other words to stop crossing picket lines — a directive certain to have been considered 'unlawful' by the Tory thon verall paper al would reluse to accol all which contravened Thatdeal. Claiming part of the are hard for even the most fices, he claims, acted on OWI an assertion which TUC found incredible Graham of the CPSA and Roy Grantham of APEX has been entered into, and final decision arrived at by necessary to call a halt te legislation will be backing Rupert Murdoch's bid to ment. Staying within those distance or the unity of the trade is potion at a dance represents a further step down the road of acDin: MORNING STAR The will be dictating dispute hasgot ta be won. should bi message 'Murdoch's got to Inel • weakened further still The other connotation reachonar should be brushed aside
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