And, amid the welter of protest themed singles that followed, a litany that stretches from TV Smith’s Explorers’ premonitory ”Tomahawk Cruise” to the Fun Boy Three’s ”The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum”, OMD turned the calendar back to August 1945, to relive the 'Enola Gay' bomber's mission to Hiroshima.Īndy McCluskey says nothing about contemporary events, but he doesn't need to. Not only would she place Britain unequivocally by America's side, she also put the island firmly into the cold war frontlines by granting permission for US cruise missiles to be stationed on British soil.Ī massive public outcry ensued, the long dormant Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) sprang into action, organizing some of the largest demonstrations ever seen in Britain (at least until another PM forced his unwilling nation to once more follow America's lead).
Her agenda also encompassed a new world order that was as radical as her domestic legislation. In 1979, new British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher began a thorough shake-up of British society, with a package of policies that, with time, totally redrew the landscape of the United Kingdom.
