Thatcher was of course famous for her broad sales of state utilities into markets that were barely affected by them. She made millions doing it which along with her deregulation of the financial markets lead to economic prosperity, This of course backfired as the stock exchange eventually imploded and the revenue streams dried up. That and the fact she basically ruined the lives of thousands of working class people. Now you might think by all this I hate Thatcher but its quite the opposite I admire her in some ways. She was very intelligent, she did what she thought was right and she was vicious a trait which was her greatest asset and fatal flaw. It took down the Iron Curtain and the IRA She viciously defended the Falklands a good thing but escalated the conflict far further than needed. She took on the all powerful unions but again went to far and stripped them bare. Her viciousness eventually destroyed her own cabinet and divided the party over her poll tax and she was forced out.
Now a little personal theory of mine is the evolution of the British Conservative party in response to public hatred of the probably soon to be late Baroness Thatcher. Poll taxes aside (they only hated it because they knew it would be public cyanide pills in an already rough time). After Thatcher stepped away John Major took over for seven years in which he tried to stopped the inevitable Blair tide from coming in and washing his party out. Major was a pathetic PM who tried to appease the bloodthirsty public without bringing back public hangings for the lovely lady. So after the not so great appeaser was beaten down by Tony Blair, the Tories began what I call the Graying. It started under William Hague to a degree but was fully implemented by now PM David Cameron. The policy is simple: throw out all ideological ideas no matter what you think personally.
See because he was of the posh elite in the boom time under Thatcher its very obvious that someone like Cameron deeply admires the woman and her vicious political nature because he's nothing like her. He's a quiet Oxford type who doesn't like being yelled at. So when he got the leadership in 2005 he took the party in the direction of shredding ideology and purpose and do anything no matter how bizarre for power. Cameron headed a party that started bashing war, taking pro stances on gay rights. It was a party who's doctrine was mandated by whatever the public didn't like. And rule number one was never, ever bring up Thatcher no matter how many posters we've now got under are mattresses that we only take out in the middle of the night.
David Cameron just simply wanted to take his party in to power, he didn't have anything he wanted to do when he got there he just wanted to get from A to B. He has views sure, normal Tory views but he ignores them so he can become like PR company, just agreeing with the public so he could live in 10 Downing. This was most obviously shown in 2010 when he did something amazing. He formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrat party, a left leaner to his core right so he could rule. Thatcher would have decapitated her entire bench had someone even brought up that possibility but here's Cameron today with a bunch of weird liberal followers and a small annoying dog called Clegg.
So now maybe David Cameron is shedding his skin of neutralism, to show his I Love Thatcher shirt beneath. I've always thought he does agree with Thatcher policies, but the questions is does he have the balls to actually implement them. Personally I don't think your going to see it from little boy barely blue but maybe I'll be wrong and he'll be showing up to Question time in the pearls.
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