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ime minister last year, the financial crisis stil l felt, to most of the British electorate, like so mething short-term and vaguely unreal. But British politics has lost something with its p ost-Thatcher embrace of consensus and optimism. Th atcherism was a galvanizing force. It mobilized ri ght-wingers to do things, such as selling off huge state-owned corporations, that many of them would once have considered impossible. It also mobilize d the left to develop radical alternatives: during the 1980s, the Labour Party veered toward support for unilateral nuclear disarmament and increased state intervention in the economy. Unlike today, voters in 1983 faced clear choices. A vote for Thatcher’s Tories was a vote for largescale privatization; a vote for Labour was a vote for socialism. A Conservative vote meant keeping B ritain in the European Economic Community; a Labou r vote meant withdrawal. A Tory vote meant station ing American cruise missiles in Britain; a Labour vote meant that they would be stopped. There are no longer such clear-cut choices. Explic it talk of class interests and inequality have bee n replaced by a vaguer and less divisive language of “fairness” and “equal opportunity.” The major political parties look remarkably simila r today. All are led by clean-cut 40-somethings wh o blend social liberalism (support for same-sex ma rriage and opposition to the death penalty) with a cceptance of the free market. Indeed, the Conserva tives now find themselves governing with strange b edfellows, in a coalition with the small Liberal D emocrat Party, whose president recently described Thatcherism as “organized wickedness.” Mrs. Thatch er hated coalitions. She most likely would have pr eferred to lose an election than to govern without an outright parliamentary majority.
Unlike Mr. Cameron, Mrs. Thatcher came to power at a time when people felt desperate. This desperati on, and the sense that she might be the last chanc e to restore Britain’s fortunes, accounted for muc h of her success. Thatcherism was not an alien invasion. It reflecte d a consensus by many members of the British estab lishment that things could not go on as they were. This is why so many supported Mrs. Thatcher’s pol icies, even when they disliked her personally. Mr. Cameron is certainly a more likable figure tha n Mrs. Thatcher, but likability may not be enough when the British people realize that their current predicament — requiring government spending cuts at a time of rising unemployment and financial cha os in Europe — is actually worse than the crisis w hen Mrs. Thatcher came to power in 1979. In these circumstances, it will take a bracing dos e of Thatcherite ideological confrontation to revi ve British politics. Richard Vinen, a professor of history at King’s Co llege, London, is the author of “Thatcher’s Britai n: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the 1980s.” ~~~~~~~~~ <strong>NYT</strong>-1209: U.S.: VIDEO An Unexpected Debut Boyd Lee Dunlop found his musical talent during th e Great Depression. But after years of playing in bars and nightclubs, it took a damaged piano in a Buffalo nursing home for him to be discovered. --- <strong>NYT</strong>-1209: U.S. - THIS LAND Rhythms Flow as Aging Pianist Finds New Audience .. . By DAN BARRY After a chance encounter, Boyd Lee Dunlop, living in a nursing home in Buffalo, got a chance to reco
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