THE CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO 1979

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The media. Our aim is to safeguard freedom of expression; to encourage diversity; and to guard both before. Labour will keep Britain strong but we will also work hard for disarmament. It cannot be right

Bring forward proposals to reform the machinery of government and the structure of public administration The media made much of Callaghan’s apparent obliviousness to the Winter of Discontent, with The Sun newspaper publishing the famous headline ‘Crisis? What crisis?’. Though the Prime Minister had never said these exact words, the public nonetheless had reason to believe Callaghan was out of touch with the hardship his policies had wrought. Labour’s weak majority Hansen, Randall (2000). Citizenship and Immigration in Post-war Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-158301-8. We will continue to support Plan for Coal' for the mining industry, which has a key role to play in our energy Parkhouse, Geoffrey (4 April 1979). "Geoffrey Parkhouse, Political Editor, writes". The Glasgow Herald. p.1 . Retrieved 3 July 2021.The 1970s saw the breakdown of the post-war consensus. The election of Margaret Thatcher was the final blow that brought the consensus to a definitive end. The 1979 UK general election ushered in the tide of Thatcherism, which came to define the period from Thatcher’s win of the 1979 general election to 1990 when she resigned. It also marked the end of ‘Old Labour’. The politics of the Labour Party changed after Thatcher’s premiership: no longer was Labour the party of nationalisation and trade union power. In the late 1980s, a New Labour was formed in the long shadow of Thatcherism.

In 1974, we renounced any intention of moving towards the production of a new generation of nuclear Buses, especially in country areas, will continue to require a permanent and substantial amount of public Buyers were 10 times less likely to be unemployed than non-buyers. And they were twice as likely to know existing homeowners. In fact, “Two thirds of buyers reported that all or most of their family or friends were owner-occupiers.” In all these regards, the survey quietly concluded, council-home buyers in the first half of the 1980s showed a strong “continuance” with those who had bought council properties during the decades before the right to buy became law. must make their fair contribution to the country's finances. In the next Parliament, we shall introduce anwill provide the opportunity for seeking changes in the Treaty of Rome, which would enable the House expand their economies to the limit of their productive capacity and so stimulate world trade. This will Britain is almost alone among major industrial nations in achieving energy self-sufficiency; our resources Expand local authority direct labour organizations, ensuring that they are efficiently run as separate We will continue actively to support the United Nations settlement proposals for Namibia, including

Wales, it is clear that the majority there does not want an assembly, and we accept their decision. Speech to Conservative Rally in Cardiff, Margaret Thatcher Foundation, 16 April 1979 , retrieved 13 May 2010 environmental costs. We will take further measures to reduce noise and pollution. The National Freight Arts. Aid to the Arts Council is going up 25 per cent this year. We will ensure more money for the Arts in Campbell, John (2000), Margaret Thatcher, Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter, London: Jonathan Cape, ISBN 978-0-224-04097-6health funds across the country; more help for the frail elderly, the mentally ill, and handicapped; better The Conservative campaign employed the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, and pledged to control inflation as well as curbing the power of the trade unions. The Conservatives also ran their campaign on the theme that " Labour Isn't Working" (unemployment reached a 40-year high of 1.5 million during 1978). The Liberal Party was damaged by allegations that its former leader Jeremy Thorpe had been involved in a homosexual affair, and had conspired to murder his former lover. The Liberals were now being led by David Steel, meaning that all three major parties entered the election with a new leader. In any programme for nuclear power, safety must continue to be the dominant factor. Any such development In our 1974 manifesto, we promised to create elected assembles in Scotland and Wales as part of our

the Labour Government will work with the TUC to achieve our agreed inflation target of 5 per cent in 1982. Vinen, Richard (2009). Thatcher's Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era. Simon & Schuster (published 2013). ISBN 978-1-4711-2828-8. through the rate support grant to provide national Exchequer assistance to ratepayers, particularly inhave already protected the anonymity of women victims of rape. We shall bring in a fairer system of