Did the Thatcher era kill 'the working class' in the UK?

Question

Is there still a 'working class' in the UK...and who would be able to describe themselves as such?

Answer 1

It will take a long time for the country to recover.

Remember Coal, Council housing etc,etc.

She wanted everyone to be property owners so the government could steal the money at a later date as in care homes.

Answer 2

The media is "some distance" from balanced: it always has been and it always will be. The media comments for the rich, and easily the rich: it ignores - thoroughly - a minimum of ninety 5% of the inhabitants. after we are informed by technique of the "information" media that Labour rules will ruin the economy and "each body" will wade through, it signifies that the actual 5% would lose a touch of their income. The "information" isn't an options source, this is a controlling mechanism that guarantees that the overall public understand as low as achieveable about each little thing. Blair necessary to undertake tory rules to get his social gathering elected following over a decade of operating-type hate pronounces. regrettably he never reverted lower back to a real Labour ethos. aspect out the note socialist and individuals surely become violent today - extraordinarily yanks - attempt telling everybody that capitalism is destroying the planet and also you get laughed at. Rupert Murdoch controls this planet, of that there is little question, and if 'The sunlight' tells the those who Cameron is the 2d coming, then it really is what they'll trust. 2 events signify workers contained in the united kingdom today: the SLP and the SWP. The chief of the SLP became destroyed by technique of MI5 in 1985, and the overall public nevertheless trust the garbage that they were informed about him. The SWP gained't function in the capitalist electoral equipment, effectively taking itself out of the political section. for sure, that which we are informed by technique of the "information" media is a few distance from precise besides.

Answer 3

Well no, by classic definition they're still here, the tradesmen, labourers etc we see every day. But things did change;



Prosperity happened. Builders, plumbers, delivery driver et al now own their own houses, have two cars and all that; not something that was so in the 1970s. Hell, they might feel middle-class. They certainly don't feel their interests are repressented by a classically working class socialist outlook, better economically educated they are no longer be drawn down the blind ally of eutopian visions. Union membership is a practical matter of getting free legal advise etc, not the "them & us" politcal statement it used to be.



Some workers are still badly off in spite of their labours, but as they don't repressent the vast majority, as they used to, their can be no class homogeneity.



The modern underclass are not the same. Industrial workers of the past saw real injustice in the imbalance of their significant labours & grinding poverty. Todays underclass can't see this; they live softer lives than ealry 20thC labourers yet do nothing for it; they have no real grievance.



So while the WC are there, they are not their in a classical, politically & socially homogenous state they were prior to the 1980s.

Answer 4

She weakened the working class politically - but it is still very much there!



To the answerer who mentioned tax cuts - yes, these were great news - FOR THE RICH. Not so good if you were on the dole, if your community was devastated by the loss of traditional industry, if you were a trade unionist who could not go out on strike to save your job because of Thatcher's anti-trade union laws . . .



. . . and Blair and Brown have done nothing except carry on where she left off.

Answer 5

Yes and Labour finished the job by allowing mass immigration which lowered the wages of the working class.

Answer 6

Thatcher and her crew of Fascists decimated decent working classes of the UK.She deliberately imported coal from Poland to survive a dispute over pit closure's(strike)for over a year and also imported a foreign national,Ian Macgregor an American,to oversee and bully the NCB and screw up any fairness for the miners.,I knew some people from south York's(still do)and saw what this cow did to their communities,really sad.It's a story on it's own and I fro one hope she and her bullies roast in Hell!HE WORKING CLASSES OF THE 80'S ARE NOW WHAT YOU COULD TERM 'UNDERCLASSES,frightened,disillusioned people cursed with communities rife with hard drugs.I blame Thatcher and her evil cabinet of Tebbit and co for the beginning of the social decline of the UK.EDIT;Typical Tory below thumbing people down,Thatcher loved his sort ,selfish greedy mean little traitors.The reason they are not in 'their homogeneous state'is partly due to the massive immigration brought on to UK in Blair's New Labour,this besides Thatcher is another reason.

Answer 7

Yes there is a working class in england its political power is weakened and the jobs are much less well paying.

Answer 8

She did her best to do so, didn't quite succeed, but used and abused them instead and left them poorer than ever. She is one nasty piece of work and has a hell of a lot to answer for. Considering the fact that she comes from a working class familly originally, she ought to be downright ashamed of herself. Karma.

Answer 9

She didn't kill them, she just morphed them into the non working classes.

Answer 10

The Thatcher era also saw decreases in personal income tax. The standard rate went from 33% to 25% eventually during her administration. Top income earners, prior to the 1979 general election had a tax rate of 83%, which was immediately dropped to 60, which is still allowing them to keep less than half of what they were earning. It wasn't all bad.

Answer 11

No - try people like Robinson and Scargill and the various TU "leaders" who really ran down this country.



As for you crowing about her slow decline, I really hope you don`t go the same way - be careful what you wish for.

Answer 12

the guy serves you a beer, the guy or guy es that leans on a spade while a digger repairs the road, are they working class?



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Answer 13

No.! From the early nineties,rebellious gay people who have infiltrated the media and abused their position of power whilst females, blacks and Asian proceeded to Attack what they saw as the indigenous white males in this country. As a result the indigenous people of the UK abandoned their country as well as their families. Now you have a generation of angry rebellious teenagers that are psychopathic and sociopathic which are attacking with due cause with no moral principles in life.

Answer 14

She tried new labour finished the job.

Answer 15

No but she tried . . .

Answer 16

She was the best PM england ever have..period.