Why did she win the election

Cards (9)

  • how did she tackle inflation?
    • scrap nationalisation of building land
    • Reduce government intervention in industry
    • Reduce waste
    • Beurocracy over governemnt
  • how would she tacke trade unions
    • no closed shops in civil service
    • wider use of secret ballots
    • provide public funding for postal ballot
    • union fund strikes
    • pay bargain in private
    • no excessive pay deals
  • how would she tackle tax?
    • cut income tax
    • raise thresholds
    • widen brackets
    • increase vat
  • how would she deal with nationalisation
    • sell to private ownership
    • restrict NEB
  • how would she tackle rising crime?
    • imrpove pay of police
    • wider sentencing laws
    • sharp shock for youth to stop reoffending
  • how would she tackle council houses?
    • tenants given legal righs to buy homes
    • right to buy
    • 100% mortgages
  • how would she tackle education?
    • National curriculum
    • keep grammar schools
    • claim partial fees
  • what were labour weaknesses?
    • Winter of discontent
    • OPEC consequences and stagflation
    • Unemployment at 3 million
    • Unions
    • Divisions within party
    • No majority
    • Troubles
    • IMF reinforced rubbish economy and power
    • Calllaghan didnt call election - crisis, what crisis
  • Emergence of SDLP
    • Roy Jenkins a
    • Divided electorate
    • Believed labour was left wing extremists