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Thatcher, n.2|ˈθætʃə(r)|
[The name of Mrs. (subsequently Baroness) Margaret Thatcher: see Thatcherite n. and a.]
Thatcher's Britain, Britain under the premiership of Mrs. Thatcher; (the condition of) British society as an alleged result of policies implemented by her governments. Also Mrs. Thatcher's Britain. Freq. with negative connotations.
1979Economist 20 Oct. 126/1 The Economist..this week asked..how Mrs Thatcher's Britain might fare in the next two years. 1981Guardian Weekly 12 July 6/5 Reagan's America is heading down the same miserable road as Thatcher's Britain. 1983Summary of World Broadcasts: U.S.S.R. (B.B.C.) 1 Feb. a1/6 A far more likely explanation of the drop in industrial action in Thatcher's Britain is the grim anti-union policy that the Tories have been following. 1988Guardian Weekly 5 June 2/1 When one of them said ‘make sure you tell them what Thatcher's Britain has done to young people’, I agreed with that young person wholeheartedly. 1989Mod. Painters Autumn 30/3 A ‘process curiously akin to the rhetorical emphasis on freedom of choice and privatisation which characterise Mrs. Thatcher's Britain’.
▸ Thatcher's child n. a person for whom the premiership and policies of Margaret Thatcher are regarded as formative influences, esp. a member of the generation of Britons living (or born) in the period of her government (1979–90), or a person who has inherited aspects of her political, economic, or social ideology.
1986Times 1 Sept. 1/8 ‘*Thatcher's children’, the young people who have come of voting age since Mrs Margaret Thatcher arrived in Downing Street, are deeply cynical and largely apathetic about politics. 1995Daily Mail (Nexis) 10 Oct. 9 How did the son of a Spanish Republican..and a Liberal progressive Scotswoman..become Thatcher's child? 1996Tribune 21 June 10/4 If Labour is to win support from ‘Thatcher's children’ it must make a new deal with young people. 2003Guardian (Nexis) 26 Apr. 32 [He] is a true Thatcher's child, citing the Iron Lady as a political heroine. 2005Daily Tel. 22 Nov. 22/1 Most in my circle of pinko friends don't like it when I remind them that we are Thatcher's children. |