Margaret Thatcher Effect On The North
The effect was originally created in 1980 by peter thompson professor of psychology at the university of york.
Margaret thatcher effect on the north. She would go. Eight miles away from the doomed factory lady thatcher was surveying a site on liverpools waterfront earmarked for redevelopment trumpeting the virtues of the enterprise culture. When her chancellor geoffrey howe suggested managed decline for cities like liverpool after the toxteth riots she instead sent heseltine to look at regeneration there.
Margaret thatchers iron lady moniker sticks. The result was a highly uneven period of growth in the eighties and an increase in the gap between north and south. Margaret thatcher and her impact on north east england.
Since 1945 successive british governments failed to address discrimination against catholics in northern ireland. The thatcher effect or thatcher illusion or eyesmouth wrongway is a phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside down face despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face. To her credit though she did not fall prey to other siren voices calling for greater abandonment of the north.
Her quick response to the south atlantic conflict and swift victory led to a surge in her popularity and subsequent reelection in 1983. Margaret thatchers government defended structured political and religious discrimination and political vetting in the north legislated for political censorship and institutionalised to a greater. It is named after the late british prime minister margaret thatcher on whose photograph the effect was first demonstrated.
A considerable degree of reluctance also characterized the other great problem of the thatcher administrations namely the conflict in northern ireland. She died aged 87 in 2013. The northsouth divide truly became a political issue in the 1980s reflecting the perception of margaret thatchers economic policies.
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