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    The Conservative government's policies between 1979-1987 made the Troubles worse by failing to reach an adequate agreement in the Anglo-Irish Agreement, dismissing the hunger strikes insensitively, and Thatcher's unwillingness to compromise. Their refusal to negotiate with terrorists and shoot-to-kill orders by soldiers only increased tensions and support for the IRA. While making efforts like the Anglo-Irish Agreement, their policies overall inflamed the situation and depicted the UK government as unwilling to address grievances.

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    The Conservative government's policies between 1979-1987 made the Troubles worse by failing to reach an adequate agreement in the Anglo-Irish Agreement, dismissing the hunger strikes insensitively, and Thatcher's unwillingness to compromise. Their refusal to negotiate with terrorists and shoot-to-kill orders by soldiers only increased tensions and support for the IRA. While making efforts like the Anglo-Irish Agreement, their policies overall inflamed the situation and depicted the UK government as unwilling to address grievances.

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    The Conservative government's policies between 1979-1987 made the Troubles worse by failing to reach an adequate agreement in the Anglo-Irish Agreement, dismissing the hunger strikes insensitively, and Thatcher's unwillingness to compromise. Their refusal to negotiate with terrorists and shoot-to-kill orders by soldiers only increased tensions and support for the IRA. While making efforts like the Anglo-Irish Agreement, their policies overall inflamed the situation and depicted the UK government as unwilling to address grievances.

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    ‘The Conservative governments’ policies in Northern Ireland between 1979

    and 1987 made ‘The Troubles’ worse’. Assess the validity of this view.

    The policies of the Conservative Party are overwelmingly clear in making the ‘Troubles worse ‘: this
    was due to the inadeuqate attempt for an agreeemnt in the Anlgo-Irish Agreeemnt, the insensitive
    dismissal of the hunger strikes, and Thatcher’s own personal unwilligness to compromise.

    It could be argued that the policies of the Conservative governement were the were not directly the
    reasons the Troubles became worse, this is because the Torries made a significant attempt at a
    peace proposal – as evidenced in the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985. This policy showed a serious
    attmept by the torries, to resolve the troubles and make it better, thus it oculd be argued that it
    would not be fair to to attribute the worsening of the troubles to conservtaice party sonidering they
    made serious attempts to resolve the Troubles. However a closer analysis of the agreement shows
    how poorly recived it was by the Unionist who felt that the agreement gave too many concssions to
    the Irish. This mass rally in 1985 in which 200,000 people attended shows how outraged the
    Unionists were. This was predomiantly due to the fact that Unionsit were excluded from the
    agreement process and it also entailed that the Republic of Ireland would role in the governance of
    Northern Ireland for the first time ever – this mass ourtage shows a poor attmpt which made the
    Troubles worse not in that it exacerbated it, but only delayed an adeequate soloution to the
    problem.

    It could also be argued that the conservative policy made the Troubles better in their policy of
    refusal when it came to the negotiation of terrorists. This unwaivering stance and refusal to
    negotiate despite the Bright Bombing which had paralysed the wife of Norman Tebbitt, shows the
    the decisive nature of the ‘iron lady’ and her policies. Thus, such policies made the Troubles better
    inasmuch as they proved theat violence was not going to solve the conflict, as the governemnt was
    not going to entertain such violence. Alternatively, a more apt analysis of the events was that the
    policy of no-negotiation only portrayed the UK as callous to the desiring the self-determination of
    republicanism, and therfore only increased tensions between the Westminister and the Republicans,
    making the troubles worse. Such policies involved a callous dismissal of the Hunger Strikes of 1982
    which killed the likes of Bobby Sands who had died after 66 days of protesting. This only depicted the
    conservtaive party as being intrasignent and unwilling to compromise which only exacerbate the
    tensions and make the ‘troubles worse’.

    It could be argued that the policy of implacabilty and the insesnitive policies merely inflamed the
    troubles. The policies depicted Westminister in genuienly being interested in a immeidate soloution,
    this is evidenced in the disallowing of Sinn Fein MP’s into Britain such as the Bobby Sands and Gerry
    Adams. This only disencouraged legitamte diplomatic attempts – the likes of the ‘Twin Track’ policies
    implememented by the Ulster Unionist Paarty which committed to values of non-violence as a
    means of reoslving the problem. This made increased the tenions which only made conflict worse
    causing parties involved to resolve to violence, making the ‘troubles worse’. The orders of shoot to
    kill by British soliders which only caused the contiued suppors for the IRA highlights how the troubles
    were made worse primarily due to how Thatcher had a policy in which she refused to attend to
    grievances.
    In conclusion it is fair to evaluate that the polcies made the ‘troubles’ worse dspite the efforts of an
    agreement, the agreement were futile and only agrgrivated the situation as it depicted Westiminster
    as a distant implacable power who only inflamed the situation in their vacuos attempt of an
    agreement.

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