Thatcherism and the End of the Post-War Consensus - BBC.
The post-war consensus prevailed from 1945 until the election of the Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher in 1979. Thatcher challenged the welfare state mainly through privatisation of UK services and abolishment of the Keynesian full employment practice. This essay will look at how and to what extent the post-war consensus on welfare was challenged during the Thatcher years.
Assess how the Post War consensus became a political ideology and evaluate how the Thatcher government of the 1980’s altered the British political landscape?
Demonstrate in online forum posts and an essay a detailed and critical command of the body of knowledge concerning post-war British politics and government Demonstrate in online forum posts and an essay an ability to analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship concerning, primary source materials, and conceptual discussions about post-war politics and the nature of democracy.
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The post-war Labour government introduced the Welfare State to address the 'Five Giants' of disease, squalor, want, ignorance and idleness. The measures introduced had varied levels of success.
The end of the post-war consensus and the difficulties Thatcher had in removing many of the provisions of Great Britain's social safety net are perhaps a testament to the programs' success. Indeed.
Italy’s Post-War Culture and its Fascist Past. calling into question the rhetoric of post-war renewal. This essay proposes a reassessment of that rhetoric through the analysis of five key metaphors with which Italian intellectuals represented national recovery after 1945: parenthesis, disease, flood, childhood, and discovery. While the current critical consensus would lead us to expect a.