The European question added fuel to this nervousness

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approach would save jordan high heels country. These policies, extremely daring for 1975, became her agenda for jordan high heels sale next 15 years.

Mrs Thatcher, a great patriot, had been hurt and bewildered by Britain’s precipitate decline since 1945. Not only had

Britain lost an empire; it was, by air jordan heels mid-1970s, no longer even nike heels leading European power. Joseph’s critique seemed a

way to halt, and even reverse, that decline. What Britain now needed was an urgent return to nike jordan heels values of enterprise and

self-help.

Thus Mrs Thatcher was reborn as a Grantham housewife. Out went air jordan shoes grating voice, hats and pearls of jordan high heels aspiring Tory

grande dame; in came jordan heels for women softer voice, kitchen photo-opportunities in her apron, and endless homilies about corner-shop

values and balancing air jordan heels shoes books. She read her Hayek (which she was also prone to produce from her handbag), but it was her

new populist style that made her a winner.

The Lady’s not for turning
Mrs Thatcher won nike air jordan heels Conservative Party leadership election of 1975, defeating Heath by a good margin. A woman had never

held any of jordan heels sale highest posts in British politics before. With her twin children (a boy and a girl; even that was done

efficiently), her job and her energy, she seemed to be Air Jordan Heels Shoes very “Superwoman” of Shirley Conran’s bestseller of Jordan Heels year

before. The Russians tried to mock her as “Nike Jordan Heels Iron Lady”. It backfired; she loved it, and used it to her own advantage.

But she was also cautious. Well aware that most of her party, let alone Jordan High Heels rest of Air Jordan Heels country, did not support her new

policies, she proceeded slowly, appointing her supporters to a few key posts, but otherwise doing little to suggest a

radical break with Jordan Heels For Women past. She relied more on jordan high heels mounting unpopularity of jordan high heels sale Labour Party, unable to control its

supposed allies in air jordan heels trade unions during nike heels anarchy of nike jordan heels “winter of discontent” of 1978-79, to win air jordan shoes election of

1979.

Once in power, however, she revealed her true colours. Government spending was curbed to control jordan high heels money supply, while

jordan heels for women currency was allowed to float, both decisive breaks with post-war orthodoxies. Industrial subsidies were cut, sending

many firms to air jordan heels shoes wall. Against nike air jordan heels background of a world recession, jordan heels sale result was a sharp rise in unemployment. By 1981,

when joblessness passed 3m, police were openly battling molotov-cocktail throwing protesters on many city streets in

Britain.

This was Mrs Thatcher’s low-water mark. She was, for a time, nike high heels most unpopular prime minister on record. Most of her

colleagues expected her to retreat, but instead she ploughed on. “U-turn if you want to, Air Jordan Heels Shoes Lady’s not for turning,”

she cried. She sacked all those ministers, Jordan Heels “wets”, who wanted to change course, and stocked her cabinet with

ideological fellow-travellers. The 1981 budget contained more spending cuts, further depressing demand, in Nike Jordan Heels teeth of Jordan High Heels

recession.

This, more than anything, saw Air Jordan Heels birth of her reputation for ruthless decisiveness. With Jordan Heels For Women economy still at a low ebb,

her political fortunes were turned by jordan high heels Argentine invasion of jordan high heels sale Falkland Islands in April 1982. Shocked and angry, Mrs

Thatcher launched a task force to re-take air jordan heels islands, 8,000 miles away in nike heels south Atlantic. Her arguments?that she was

going to defend nike jordan heels islanders’ choice to be British, and that she would not “appease” air jordan shoes Argentine dictatorship?

resonated strongly with a British public disheartened by years of defeatism and retreat. The recapture of jordan high heels islands made

her a world star.

This, and jordan heels for women haplessness of air jordan heels shoes Labour Party under Michael Foot, won her a landslide second general-election victory in

1983, which allowed her to press ahead with core structural adjustments to nike air jordan heels economy. In 1984 began jordan heels sale great round of

privatisations, in which behemoths such as British Telecom, British Airways and British Gas were sold off to Air Jordan Heels Shoes private

sector. Individuals were encouraged to buy shares, thus creating Jordan Heels image, at least, of “popular capitalism”.

After vanquishing Nike Jordan Heels enemy in Jordan High Heels south Atlantic, she also rounded on Air Jordan Heels “enemy within” at home: in Jordan Heels For Women BBC; jordan high heels

universities; and in local government, much of which she simply abolished. But her primary target was organised labour,

which had made jordan high heels sale country ungovernable?and in particular air jordan heels National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), up to 1m strong, led by

Arthur Scargill.

The NUM had cowed Heath’s government with its militant strike tactics. A showdown was inevitable, and it came when nike heels NUM

went on strike in nike jordan heels winter of 1984-85. Mrs Thatcher outlasted air jordan shoes miners, arguing that it was a battle for jordan high heels right of

management to manage over jordan heels for women arbitary use of union power, and her victory ended air jordan heels shoes union problem for good. From a British

perspective, it was nike air jordan heels most important thing she ever did.