2.  Free market
 Small state
 Tight control of money supply (monetarism)
 Opposition to trade unions
 Privatisation
 „Trickle down‟ economics

3.  Privatised Air, Telecoms, Gas, Water, Coal and
Steel
 Outlawed closed shops and flying pickets:
Tebbit unions
 Reduced spending on NHS
 Reduced top rate of tax to 40%
 Killed Tripartite/Corporatist Economic
Strategies

4.  „Victorian Values‟
 Sceptical about the Welfare State – creates a
„dependency culture‟. She quoted St Paul: “If
a man shall not work, he shall not eat”.
 Norman Tebbit: “Get on your bike and get a
job”
 Anti gay rights
 Patriotism – strong nation state
 Anti-immigration

5.  Section 28 of Local Government Act – banned
the promotion of homosexuality
 Sceptical of single parents
 „Short, sharp, shock‟ for young offenders
 Increased police powers – stop and search
 Poll Tax
 Limiting immigration – Vietnamese boat
people

6. • Conservatives stress a love of
country, more patriotic than their
opponents
• Nation second only to the family
“In the national interest”
• Anti EU – Parliamentary Sovereignty
• Commonwealth
• Unionist
• Monarchy
 81 Tory rebels on EU referendum
 Govt defeat on EU Budget
 National holiday for Royal Wedding
 Changes to line of succession (change to conserve?)
 Opposition to devolution and Scottish independence
 Cameron‟s speech at Party Conference – the Empire
 The Tea Party - US

7.  Increase lowest tax • Privatisation in the NHS
threshold to 10k over – Hinchingbrooke
Hospital in Cambs by
5 years Circle
 Pupil Premium • Harsh language on the
 Right to buy – closed rioters – “feral kids”
loophole • Job legislation: “make it
easier to hire and fire
 Opposed to ID Cards workers”
 IDS – Centre for • Deep cuts across public
Social Justice, “Early services. 15% in
Education
Intervention
 No removal of 50%
tax bracket