British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher There Is No Alternative
At first new conservative prime minister margaret thatcher and the queen seem set to get along sharing a sense of duty to country a strong work ethic a flinty impatience with self indulgence.
British prime minister margaret thatcher there is no alternative. It credits thatcher with the transformation of british society from an empire eternally in decline with a weak economy and an irrelevant political culture to a modern wealthy influential nation. The phrase was used to signify thatchers claim that the market economy is the only system that works and that debate about this is over. As margaret thatcher took office as britains first female prime minister in may 1979 she confronted a nation mired in economic recession.
In economics politics and political economy it has come to mean that there is no alternative to neoliberalism that free markets free trade and capitalist globalization are the best or the only way for modern societies to develop. A 1994 christian democratic union poster with the slogan es gibt keine alternative there is no alternative there is no alternative tina was a slogan often used by the conservative british prime minister margaret thatcher. The iron lady earned her reputation for toughness when coal miners called a nationwide strike in 1984.
There is no alternative was a slogan often used by the conservative british prime minister margaret thatcher. Margaret thatcher died in 2013 and unusually the queen made the personal decision to attend former prime ministers funeral just as she had after the death of winston churchill.