Graham Tater Chert

Thatcherism:

Theorist: Margaret Thatcher

Name in book: Graham Tater Chert

The ideology of Thatcherism claims to favour the small state, free markets, monetarism, the privatisation of state industries and a less powerful labour movement. Thatcherism is often compared with Reaganomics in the United States, Rogernomics in New Zealand and Economic Rationalism in Australia as a key part of the worldwide neoliberal movement. Nigel Lawson, Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1983 to 1989, listed the ideals of the Thatcherite ideology as:
free markets, financial discipline, firm control over public expenditure, tax cuts, nationalism, 'Victorian values' (of the Samuel Smiles self-help variety), privatization and a dash of populism.[2]
Thinkers closely associated with Thatcherism include Keith Joseph, Enoch Powell, Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. In an interview with Simon Heffer in 1996 Thatcher stated that the two greatest influences on her as Conservative leader had been Joseph and Powell, "both of them very great men".[3]
Thatcherism is often compared to classical liberalism. Milton Friedman claimed that "the thing that people do not recognise is that Margaret Thatcher is not in terms of belief a Tory. She is a nineteenth-century Liberal."[4] Thatcher herself stated in in 1983: "I would not mind betting that if Mr. Gladstone were alive today he would apply to join the Conservative Party".[5] In the 1996 Keith Joseph memorial lecture Mrs. Thatcher argued that "The kind of Conservatism which he and I ... favoured would be best described as 'liberal', in the old-fashioned sense. And I mean the liberalism of Mr. Gladstone, not of the latter day collectivists".[6]

Colour: Purple
Thailand considers purple to be the color of mourning. This is not so in western cultures, where purple is the color of royalty and wisdom. The Purple Heart, a high military honor for those wounded or killed in combating America's foes, embodies both purple attributes. Purple can symbolize nobility, envy, sensuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nostalgia, ceremony, mystery, wisdom, enlightenment, arrogance, flamboyance, gaudiness, mourning, exaggeration, profanity, bisexuality, sexuality confusion, pride, Scorpio (violet, star sign), May, November, riches, romanticism (light purple), delicacy (light purple), and penance. Purple is the color of mourning for widows in Thailand. It was the favorite color of Egypt's Cleopatra. Purple was also the color of dye that corkers used to make the king and queen's
clothing. They weaved and made special clothes from silk woven off a tree.

Newspaper: The Telegraph

Web news: http://blog.conservatives.com/index.php

Interested in: Finance, Privatization, immigration, credit crunch, nationalism

Possible outlets: royal mail postal strikes, Conservative policy's (from he point of view of a 19th century liberal)




These characters are a critique on modern day life. If you find any similarities between you and these characters it dose not mean I am saying you have the same political views or ideals.