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I SO remember Lord Mountbaaten’s murder as it happened on 27 August 1979 as that was the same day I started fourth grade. Rest In Peace Admiral Of The Fleet Mountbatten. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

The Race relations Act was nothing to do with fairness, Wilson wanted his pool of unemployed in the first place and misjudged the acquiescence and apathy of the indigenous population. People saw whole areas being taken over, many, who had lived there all their lives forced to sell at silly cheap prices and anger grew. What better way to snuff out the candle of resistance than to formulate a law which, between the lines said conform or else. The resentment didn't go away, the immigrants didn't want to integrate and they never did, although Christian Church schools were inundated. One school I remember well had two indigenous children and they were from a Jehovah's Witness family. THAT was the betrayal of a nation by it's own government, all to satisfy the erroneous belief that the first rise in the economy since WW2 would continue for ever -- who remembers the expression "period of boom and bust" which was the real reward this country suffered for years. I remember waiting in a post office queue, while a line of immigrant paid over money in sums of 350 or more to be sent to relations on the sub-continent every week -- up to £50,000,000 per week leached out of the country and I have never yet heard this expensive mistake mentioned and it still goes on today!

Hmm, honestly Walden seems to be grasping at straws to downplay Powell's prejudice here. Walden was brilliant and one of the most insightful essayists of his day with an uncanny sense of the realities of human natuee behind politics- but here he seems desperate to reach a sort of middle-ground and goes out of his way to defend racism

A great PM

The journalists do not understand that after the sinking of the ARA Belgrano not a single Argentinian ship left the ports, included the carrier ARA 25 de Mayo Greatly reducing the risk For the Royal Navy. You can't become a naval war expert in the time of an interview.

Cakeism from Barbara Castle or does she want a Norway?

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White Flight, look no further at South Africa, since 1994. It's got nothing to do with racism, rather social and cultural demographics. Proof theory works both ways, prove him wrong ! He had nothing to prove. Respect for his integrity towards his constituency!

As Michael Foot said, Owen spuriously went from rising hope to elder statesman without touching any of the intervening points

Belgrano should have stayed in port, then it would have been fine.

God bless her

Thatcher the face of pure evil... I loathed her as a teenager and I loathe her still now. The arrogance, entitlement , condescension and loathing of "normal" people was so apparent then and is still apparent now.

It's a point of view about her, but just a point of view... In the Tories, those who didn't like her (like Heseltine) were mostly snobs who couldn't stand the rise and leadership of a grocer's daughter. You only have to listen to Heseltine to hear this snobbery. She was very tough, it's true, but in any case she was a woman of conviction who didn't change her opinion according to the polls, as they all do today.

Mrs Thatcher eats the hang wringing protype woke alive. Sort of t w a t that defends Hamas

Left wing liberal idiot totally ignorant and delusional….well done Maggie! :) 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧😊🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It was a war crime, as Bruce Robinson confirmed.

At least she had a legacy Neil.

She should have succeeded Wilson instead of Callaghan.

Some bloody idiot questioning the PM, crazy times, ex F126 Falklands myself.

You tell her, Maggie girl. Old lefty cow doesn't know what she's talking about.

Foot was a Soviet agent, like McGahey.

Well this hasn't stood the test of time

Her great sin was the promotion of selfishness because while she may have thought that that would limit itself to people supporting paying less tax (they actually ended up paying more under her) and to them not organising collectively for better pay and embracing rugged individualism, it spread to all the other aspects of life: men not paying towards their children's upbringing, crime and anti social behaviour going up, people not intervening to prevent anti-social behaviour, drug abuse etc etc. She didn't give a damn that Britain was a more divided, more violent, less secure society after she'd finished her work

The Tories are a fox party - they are masters as disguising that so much of what they do is the opposite of what they say they stand for: taxes being the prime example. They talk about being the party of low taxation - yeah, for their very rich friends. They are more than happy to increase taxes on ordinary people and that's why the tax burden on the British people increased under both Thatcher and Cameron / Johnson / Sunak. Just look at the history of VAT How do they get away with it? By directing popular anger towards the public sector and all the people they made unemployed. They're also total liars about immigration. The vast majority of Britain's post war immigration occurred under the Tories

What kept her in office was a divided opposition and to some extent a feral tabloid press. The destruction of an industrial ecosystem which had taken 200 years to build up, the imposition of mass unemployment, the squandering of the North Sea oil money on the social security benefits needed to prevent total collapse in the affected areas and tax cuts for her Tory pals, the freeing of the City spivs to play their casino economics and making the country a net importer of food were acts of vandalism never before seen in this country. The trade unions had caused too many problems in the 70s as they sought to make their wages keep pace with the huge burst of inflation following the oil price shock but the total destruction of the working class and their way of life plus the relentless promotion of selfishness are things it will take this country many decades to recover from if at all

Thank goodness is not that Diana women who lead the country, war is war, is not some tennis competition everyone play it fair. And war is expensive, The best way is try to win the war asap , save money, save lives.

The idea that Britain should have to give any kind of warning to Argentina in a WAR that Argentina started is completely asinine.

Brain Walden he socialist Thomas.

Awesome.

what was the source of this interview? Please!

And that ladies & gentlemen is how you do it. How far has politics & the quality of Members of the House of Commons fallen. I give you Michael Foot on the one hand & offer Lee Anderson, Johnathan Gullis, Esther McVey, Liz Truss et all on the other. 47+ years of service to his country & it's people, whatever your politics, here is the fire that we should be holding the feet of these characters & those like them up to.

No No, no failure for Enoch. Health is forgotten, even despised and mocked by history. Enoch is increasingly seen as visionary and far sighted. You only have to see the many mentions of Enoch and his views, in modern 2024 UK. Nobody bothers mentioning Health. His was the abject failure in life

Enoch was a principled genius, Health was an over promoted, arrogant, spoilt child.

Mrs Gould well done. What a despot Thatcher was.

Thatcher totally won the argument then, and in 2011 she was proved undoubtably right in this matter.

Oh, Mrs Gould, you stupid old b***h. Who gives a flying fuck as to who did what etc. The Islands were under attack. We were at war.

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Brain Walden brilliant, Margaret Thatcher it North sea oil industry revunes savec her, she wreck England London Britain. Awesome.

Wanted sunk that ship and has no accurate answer for those questions shame on u

He completely glossed over the fact that the measures she and Geoffrey Howe had implemented had resulted in skyrocketing unemployment and (not condoning them) some of the worst riots every seen in 20th Century Britain. Although she was a decisive leader during the Falklands War in 1982, her confrontational attitude wouldn't and didn't help when it came to dealing with a lot of complex issues. For example, she outraged the nationalist population in Northern Ireland by appealing to be completely indifferent to the grievences they had (like sitting idly by as prisoners like elected MP Bobby Sands ultimately died from their hunger strike). Even on the other side of the Peace Lines, there was a sense that she was much like other British Prime Ministers in that she was out of touch with everyday life in Northern Ireland at the time. As for communities in the north of England that had depended on mining for their very existence, her policies, closing them down without providing alternate sources of income, not only provided a devastating blow to communities dependent on the mines, but the ones that helped her break the miners strike felt betrayed when their communities were wiped out by the loss of a vital source of employment. She treated miners as an enemy, considering that it was the miners who brought down Heath, was not above using heavy handed tactics to get her way

As an American who grew up in a Navy family, I feel honored our Navy was invited to escort this great Admiral and Royal. So glad to have Irish and British heritage. Thanks Mountbatten!

Diana Gould was a plant. Few civilians would have the understanding of basic terminology.

The look on Margaret’s face says it all.

The sinking of the Belgrano has so many lessons for all of us. This hindsight scrutiny, based on misleading “facts”for political gain, to weaken the resolve of any country should be carefully scrutinized for what it is.

Things have never changed. The ‘Gotcha’ question from a citizen, far more loaded than the submarine that struck the Belgrano. People seem to love attacking any perceived slight for advantage. Mrs. Gould’s shot to sink the HMS Thatcher was far more nefarious than HMS Conquerer.

Imagine these kind of questions in WW2. Sod that. We were at war

He was a homosexual and, unusually for his time, never in the closet. I’m pretty sure his wife knew he was a homosexual when she married him. A damaged person, who did a lot of damage to society. His political career was an abject failure, something he himself acknowledged. Hard to see the point of him, really. Hst, I do enjoy listening to him.

I wish Mrs Thatcher was still around today she would put a stop to all the crap that’s happening to this country…Mrs Gould is a lefty idiot who has to question someone who did her duty thanks to Maggie Thatcher we still rule the Falkland Islands

Walden states that people were 'astonished' that Labour elected Foot as leader in 1980. And yet he doesn't mention that he himself voted for Foot in the 1976 Labour leadership election.

And yet bizarrely, Brian Walden voted for Michael Foot (the epitome of the socialist left) rather than James Callaghan in the 1976 Labour leadership election.