During the first few minutes of the film there were air raids perforating in the background to give you an insight as to the time period which it was set in. Everyone was money conscious as prices had gone up. A pint of milk now costs £0.49p. Moreover there were a lot of Newspaper headlines portraying the bombings that were encircling Britain.
Margaret Thatcher was having flashbacks to the war. Thatcher received a letter offering her a place at Oxford University. The air raids went off again and they all went into their Anderson shelters, ensuring that they covered the butter as this was an expensive and scarce commodity to own.
There was an explosion at 2:50am at the Grand Hotel in 1984 which was situated in Brighton. Margaret Thatcher was at the Hotel for a conference about the Conservative Party. This was therefore believed to have been an intentional explosion to destroy Thatcher by the IRA which is the Irish Republican Army. Thatcher and her husband Dennis were luckily enough found alive, however five people were pronounced dead at the scene.
At the age of 24 years Margaret Thatcher lost her seat at parliament in the 1950 General Election. Even though she lost the election, Thatcher was still putting effort into the Dartford Conservative party, she was a fighter who would not give up.
In 1959, Margaret Thatcher became the Leader of the Conservative Party after receiving 29,697 votes. At a conference there was an argument about why they closed the schools. The strikes were resulting in a massive economic downturn. Thatcher defended the decision by stating "Teachers can't teach with no heating or electricity".
There was a breakdown in the economy. The rubbish bags clogged the streets and there was no sanitation, blackouts and low petrol. The stench of Britain must have been despicable to breathe in. The whole country was coming to a standstill as people were striking to save their jobs and for a higher pay. Many miners wanted to receive an average 35% wage increase.
