How Margaret Thatcher Became Britain’s Most Hated Prime Minister | The Iron Lady | Timeline
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- Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady is the first major documentary to look back on the development and impact of this remarkable woman, whom commentators of both the political left and right agree changed the face of 20th Century politics forever. Featuring many excerpts from her powerful speeches and insightful contributions from her political supporters and detractors, a portrait emerges of a woman whose strength of conviction eventually became her weakness.
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I grew up during her era and she was one of those leaders I was fascinated about. Leaders like her made me fall in love with Current Affairs
Although she never really warmed to our earlier Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Garrett Fitzgerald of Fine Gael or Jack Lynch of Fianna Fáil, she had a great friendship with our later Taoiseach Charles (Charlie) Haughey of Fianna Fáil and this friendship was legendary in Irish circles at the time - her firm and fearless stance against the IRA and Sinn Fein in the light of their terrorist bombing attacks in both the U.K. and in the Republic, including the murder of Lord Mountbatten in Co. Sligo, in Northern Ireland and also in Dublin, clearly demonstrated her perceptive nature about Sinn Fein, who were later revealed to be Marxist traitors to the Irish people - her firm stance also laid the groundwork for the Good Friday Agreement and the Northern Ireland Peace Process with the Northern Ireland Assembly in Stormont
I love how everyone wants to point out her gender except her.
@Zachariah Jedidiah Sock puppet account
People wonder why she was controversial. It’s easy. Labor and the lib Dems then, as always, wanted to sell out Britain to Europe and globalism. They wanted to undermine Britain’s power to power their socialist utopia. Media controls what people see and think, and media is left. They hated thatcher for being conservative and right.
@Kingsley Weston
Even if this wasn’t a scam, why would I invade my friend’s privacy? That’s beyond creepy.
Unlike today...
@@prototek100: Margaret Thatcher was NOT "sexist and gender oriented". She did NOT "despise women, as well as herself, and not just for being a woman." The ignorance! It hurts!
I hadn't known that her voice wasn't as deep before she became Prime Minister.
She had vocal training.
The sounds is distorted in this video. They all sound like they inhaled helium in this video.
The problem is that most of us remember the voices used in sketches. We took the ugly sound as being her voice which it clearly wasn't
She used to be Elizabeth Holmes in a previous life 🤣
She tuned it down on purpose.
As Ronald Reagan said once when she gave him an ear full "What a woman."
Thatcher and Reagan were political soul mates.
@PatchesRips 😂
Love or hate her she didn't hide what she wanted to do for the UK. We need politicians right or left who actually believe in something other than getting elected to office.
Remember guys, whenever someone says what bobby here has just said or something very similar they are almost always 99.99% of the time...a right winger.
if she didn't hide what she wanted to do for the UK why did she keep calling a poll tax a community tax?
that she did
@@Deidarc Cope more lefty. How's that 2/3 majority of conservatives in the UK parliament going? Clearly you don't have the majority support lol
Not left. It's always destruction, populism, poverty, suffering, totalitarianism... and death.
She reminds me of the folks like Jackie Kennedy that called Martin Luther king a criminal because he just wanted blacks to be treated like human beings…. It’s so funny… it’s ok for the police to do violence but when citizens fight back they are labeled criminals
I'm very surprised that the assassination of Airey Neave, one of her closet advisors and Northern Ireland minister didn't even feature in this 'epic'.
What an omission and blunder.
Large blunder.
Yes, and the fact that Airey Neave was the only British soldier to escape from Colditz, and then ran MI9 the escape and evasion unit of the secret service. Come to think about it, the documentary should have been entirely about him. Then at least I might have watched the whole thing without turning off this sanctimonious, fawning exercise in the art of lionising a total cvnt.
@@mrrolight I wondered how long it would take to find someone who felt the same way as I did about her. Not long. Thanks.
@@adrianjanssens7116 They say that one can only work with the tools one is given, and Thatcher was a prize tool.
Airey Neave was not assassinated, but executed.
I don't know much about Margaret Thatcher as I'm American and I was a kid when she was in office, but after reading through the comments, she doesn't seem hated at all.
She wasn’t, that’s just fake news. The hate comes from the socialistic pseudo intellectuals. The people gave her 11 1/2 years in power. In that time, she brought down inflation, and real wages and GDP increased significantly and consistently. That’s why they hate her.
She was not, except by small minority. She was one of very few politicians who had conviction. When people voted for her they knew exactly what they were going to get.
@@archiebald4717 STOP MISLEADING THE YOUNG AMERICAN.. SHE WAS DESPISED BY A MAJORITY.. THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD !!!
CZcams comment sections are echo chambers. Find videos about fascist leaders and read comments.
I'm an American who hates her.
She did the same things Reagan did and both nations suffered because of them. Like Stalin, the propaganda around her was so good as to make people believe she was helping them when she was actually ripping them off, and many still believe the former to this day.
She was PM for 11 years and was elected PM three times...she must've done something right.
My thoughts exactly. I definitely would've been politically opposed to her had I lived in that era. But she was an enemy worthy of respect.
Yeah, talk.
… for her!
Anyone can do something right… if you narrow your perception, to a set of things YOU consider to be right.
The only thing she got right was probably being a little bit less worse than the others. You don't have to do something right to get re-elected. You only make sure your opponents make mistakes
@@morrisz2 making sure your policial opponent makes a mistake is doing something right, in this context. OP didn't say she did anything morally correct
The strongest personalities that make an imprint on the world are usually the most controversial
The bitchiest personalities*
- Stalin
@@treestain2065 Why do the first three women commenting look transexual?
Fancy way of calling someone a kunt
People who destroy the lives of other people are just monsters.
There's something to be said for a woman who picks one hairstyle and wears it for the rest of her life 🧓
No kidding. Same went for India's Indira Gandhi.
You must be bald....
Like the Queen.
Easier to do back in the day
Similar is Princess Anne... Same hairstyle whole life
Love her or hate her, she will always be remembered.
Everyone will be forgotten eventually.
@@morgainenyc not with historical records
@@khanofkhans5750 *Cries in Library of Alexandria*
For the sake of Europe and the world, i hope not!!
Yeah, coming from Northern Ireland, I'm going to hate her thanks.
What timing. I just finished season 4 of "The Crown."
Excellent series Crown very well produced the actors are awesome the cast director selected actors that look similar to the real members of the royal family quality production I would also recommend I CLAUDIS MASTERPIECE THEATER PRODUCTION you can see it right here on You Tube
1963 unforgettable year Kennedy asassination
1963Iota I came here to ask who was here, straight after The Crown. It was a relief that she didn’t really talk as she did there. It actually seemed painful.
@@bilindalaw-morley161 I respect your opinion
I absolutely hated Thatcher in the 4th season meaning Jillian Anderson's performance was incredible!
I don't care for her or her politics, but I admit, she's a very fascinating woman. Very complex.
That’s a very fair and mature opinion. ❤
Usually Timeline has videos with better sound quality.
Perhaps , u can't hear very well , Considering u only have one ear
Mr. Vince ...
I noticed this as well. Quite a few times I had to drop the audio from stereo back to mono to improve the sound quality only marginally.
There are a lot of issues with some older BBC source tape because of the way they were stored before we had reliable digital storage, because the technology used to encode the tape wasn't good to begin with, and because was a tendency to reuse the same tape over and over again. The issue with this sound is that it was/is in the stereo format and it sounds as though the two sound encoding lines have degraded at different parts of the tape, which is why it'll cut out in one ear and then, later on, cut out in the other ear, this could use some remastering, but that would require funds and a will to get it done, or a really nice person with a lot of time on their hands.
there's a reason she was named The Iron Lady. She got the balls to do it.
Yeah, to kill poor people to be richier
@@rhb117 you should cry about it 😂
@@brosefmcman8264 yikes you seem bothered.
Reminds me of another orange hair human with BALLS
Unlike most politician nowadays all about talk and no action
loved how François Mitterand described her : " the mouth of Marylin ... , the eyes of Medusa ... "
Actually it was the eyes of Caligula..
What?!! Did he sad that?!! My god! He must have been completely blind!!!
@@Kirovets7011 Mitterrand was a womaniser
She was Ugly
@@bobthegamer1880 No she wasn't. At least physically.
But she had no soul
*A great leader is one who listens, when a leader doesn't listen that's where the problem begins.*
She was a woman who had no time to waste listening to drivel. However, she should have spent some doing it so the stupid people would think she was listening to them. The stupider the people, the more they want one to listen. Smart people keep quiet if the leader is succeeding and help her.
@@sophiachavez3377 , smart people know the less intelligent are no worse than them, and their opinions are just as valid.
She never listened to anyone for advice. It's pathetic!
@@sophiachavez3377 lmao you're bulsh*tting. She WAS absolutely hated. A lot of people even celebrated her death. Back then, she only got 40% of the votes, but due to the F*cked up British electoral system, that 40% vote was somehow enough to made her the PM. She F*CK UP the livelihood of the British working class, send death squads to Northern Ireland and pretty much started a low scale civil war there, supported the d*ck-tatorsh*t of Pinochet in Chile, and supported apartheid South Africa.
And perhaps her most unpopular economic policy was the "poll tax", a tax so unpopular that massive riots broke out, and to the point that she resigned to the mounting popular public opposition against her government
lmao you're bulsh*tting. She WAS absolutely hated. A lot of people even celebrated her death. Back then, she only got 40% of the votes, but due to the F*cked up British electoral system, that 40% vote was somehow enough to made her the PM. She F*CK UP the livelihood of the British working class, send death squads to Northern Ireland and pretty much started a low scale civil war there, supported the d*ck-tatorsh*t of Pinochet in Chile, and supported apartheid South Africa.
And perhaps her most unpopular economic policy was the "poll tax", a tax so unpopular that massive riots broke out, and to the point that she resigned to the mounting popular public opposition against her government
She's just so far ahead of all the British politicians. With Brixit, now, we know she's right.
I came to hear Margaret Thatcher talk so I could analyse the performance of Gillian Anderson in The Crown. I rather enjoyed watching this documentary by Timeline. Thank you. I think I'll even watch The Iron Lady too.
The best doco is by Martin Durkin - Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary
Here is the trailer: czcams.com/video/E_Mvj55U2fk/video.html
So glad you're getting to the real knowledge.
The Iron Lady is a fictional introspective look into who the person Margaret was and what it's like to slowly lose your mind to dementia.
I just saw the Iron Lady with Streep. It was absolute garbage and Streep should go stick her head in manure for her part in it.
@@gurgy3 oh that's a shame to hear, usually Streep is brilliant with the roles she takes on. Thanks for your feedback about the movie.
I was 2 years old when she became the PM of Britain. This is my first time of me ever listening to her speak even though I was so much interested in leaders like her while growing up
Sound quality leaves something to be desired...
Sounds like it was run through a flanger or something. It's disorienting at times.
Rather odd, Brits are AWESOME with sound, particulary MUSIC, or havent you heard?
I thought it was on my end. A back and forth high/low increase decrease. A good Doc nonetheless.
I'm not having any trouble with the sound.
They are dredging up history
June 9, 2022: A chemistry major in college, she was unusually sharp! Equally convinced of the destructive nature of socialism, I found her honesty refreshing. God bless her efforts on behalf of Great Britain, because she was a woman many admired! Now, Margaret has been permanently etched into world history.
_::vomit::_
She was great, not perfect but great.
@@benjamin9120 lmao you're bulsh*tting. She WAS absolutely hated. A lot of people even celebrated her death. Back then, she only got 40% of the votes, but due to the F*cked up British electoral system, that 40% vote was somehow enough to made her the PM. She F*CK UP the livelihood of the British working class, send death squads to Northern Ireland and pretty much started a low scale civil war there, supported the d*ck-tatorsh*t of Pinochet in Chile, and supported apartheid South Africa.
And perhaps her most unpopular economic policy was the "poll tax", a tax so unpopular that massive riots broke out, and to the point that she resigned to the mounting popular public opposition against her government
lmao you're bulsh*tting. She WAS absolutely hated. A lot of people even celebrated her death. Back then, she only got 40% of the votes, but due to the F*cked up British electoral system, that 40% vote was somehow enough to made her the PM. She F*CK UP the livelihood of the British working class, send death squads to Northern Ireland and pretty much started a low scale civil war there, supported the d*ck-tatorsh*t of Pinochet in Chile, and supported apartheid South Africa.
And perhaps her most unpopular economic policy was the "poll tax", a tax so unpopular that massive riots broke out, and to the point that she resigned to the mounting popular public opposition against her government
I had this saved to watch later, when I began watching The Crown season 4 I felt it was a perfect time to watch this.
All of you putting down the crown for how they failed to capture Thatcher in parliament and her cleaver wittiness, are missing this one reason...its called "THE CROWN" Its about "THE QUEEN" Thatcher's portrayal is related to "THE QUEEN" and thatcher didn't crack jokes with her and have a jolly good time. She almost resented the Royals. The relationship was tense, icy, and cold. THE CROWN is not a biography about Thatcher as much as we all maybe wanted it to be, its about THE QUEEN and HER relationship with Thatcher, period!
Well said old chum.
and @Merchant Ivory, we all like the Queen but she met her match in intellect and political acumen when she met Thatcher and she did not like it at times. It has always been a good thing that Elizabeth was reminded at times that she was indeed our Queen not God.
And we have to remember it is FICTION! It isn’t a biography of anything. We only can use some knowledge but the rest is made up based on what we feel or think would’ve been based on what we know. The Crown is a good show but it’s not a historical documentary
@@MTknitter22 and at the end, she was thankful she finally found a match.
When the Falklands broke out Britain had virtually no air to air missile. She called up President Reagan. His response “Give Maggie whatever she needs.” We will always be brothers and sisters to our island friends!
i wonder how real or imagined the 1st offense was? or was it necessary to create something the nation could unite against... and win.
She got the all-aspect AIM-9Ls which were rather new at that time.
Dont forget that Maggie begged Reagan to stop the French from selling more of those exocet missiles to Argentina. Without that intervention the British fleet may very well have been destroyed or suffered an unacceptable level of casualties.
War mongers at their finest
ITS A F3CKING ISLAND NOT A COUNTRY LIL BRO THINKS THIS IS WAR IS ON UK SOIL 😭😭
‘Good looks’ interesting. My first impression is she was a female version of Liam Neeson: a woman who received much of her physical characteristic from her father, rather than mother.
She is not photogenic, but she has loads of charisma. And most importantly, beauty is often more about body language and holding the centre of attention, rather than anatomy.
Let's not forget her voice. She used her voice very well.
Michael Moore once said Hillary Clinton was "hot." I puked in my mouth.
@@MakerInMotion have you seen nineties Hillary? She was gorgeous. Just not very likeable or attractive
I remember when Thatcher was in office. she had more balls then all the guys I knew. :)
Her voice… her looks… WTF!!!! Do ANY of you consider male politicians in terms of presentation? What on earth has ANY of that got to do with government?
Imagine the UK before 1979. Imagine if she didn't appeared on the UK politics. Perhaps today the UK will still have strikes the subsidy mentality. The fact that Argentina dared to invade and occupy the Falklands tells a lot of what the UK was; weak, ailing economy etc. But they forgot that the UK was led by an 'Iron Lady'. As a foreigner who lived in the 1970s and today's UK, I thank God for this particular brilliant leader. She a leader who was there for 'such a time as this' UK. Her policies helped make the UK today.
She is a psychopathic.
She was as equally loved by one side as she was hated by the other. But the side that hated her could never argue with the sheer bounceback that the UK had in the 1980s.
We very much can. You just don't listen because you've been indoctrinated.
Bounceback ? To what ? High levels of depression and poverty ? Hunger? . When she came into office the number of unemployed people were 1.5 mill by 86 it rose to 4 million and by 89 it came to about 3 million , the amount of National income going to the top 1% grew 6x . Down with the lies of the Tories
Also, what "bounce back" did UK had in the 80s?
@@kucingcat8687A country slipping into the backwater with little influence on the international stage into one that actually had a say and stance with the rest of the world. After World War 2, the UK was quickly deteriorating and most thought it would continue to fade into oblivion as it lost economic strength from being strangled by unions. Margaret Thatcher ran on the campaign of fixing that and surprisingly actually committed to what she said
@@kucingcat8687 Uhhh...some guys bought some stocks.
That shop she was raised in reminds me of the program “Open All Hours”.
Jillian Anderson's portrayal of Thatcher in season 4 of the Crown is brilliant, award winning!
Ma'am. You really can't go wrong by Jillian Anderson. Whether x files or her BBC or British programs
I actually thought it was terrible!
@R M
I found the Thatcher storyline the most interesting in season 4
I thought Anderson was a terrible Thatcher. Just painful to watch.
I feel she portrayed an older version of her throughout the show.
Timeline,what a great channel.
That actress who played her in the Crown portrayed her as a dying 90 year old woman.
1- No she didn’t
2- She never lived till 90 she died in 2013 at 87
@@AdAstraApollo She still made her sound like an old woman. She should have brought her voice up a step or two. Not so throaty and slow.
@@janelle144 I agree. Thatcher never spoke with a profound low pitch, glutaral vocal intonations. The actress in the Crown over emphasized Thatcher's speech utterances.
@@AdAstraApollo , what you achieved there was a failure in even being pedantic, just plain dumb. She said portrayed her "AS A dying 90 year old", not "WHEN she was a dying 90 year old".
@@modenaman welp ur rude
Omg so excited! I'm going to watch this! I'm learning so much about Britain from this channel
I know more about Britian than I do America... how sad is that? I'm American. They need to start an American sister chanel.
@@ss6830 and I'm an Indian... If they can't to know here that I know more about Britain now, they'd call me an anti national... 😀
“Goodness me, after eleven and half years do I have to go and ask people personally to vote for me?” Iron lady indeed 💯💯
She has a point. If you don't like her after that long a time it's not likely you ever will. On the other hand people can be won over if you just give them a little of your attention in person. If you just brush them off as if they don't matter their opinion of you can instantly change for the worse. Yeah, you still have to woo the people.
My mom was a life long Democrat but she decided not to vote for a candidate of her party after meeting him in person and seeing his arrogance up close.
@@Grisostomo06 lmao you're bulsh*tting. She WAS absolutely hated. A lot of people even celebrated her death. She F*CK UP the livelihood of the British working class, send death squads to Northern Ireland and pretty much started a low scale civil war there, supported the d*ck-tatorsh*t of Pinochet in Chile, and supported apartheid South Africa
More than thirty years later - I have not forgiven her for the dreadful and crippling poll tax and never will
and the poll tax got rebranded and you guys are still paying it
her removal was an "E.U." coup, but Brexit's revenge for her 😅🤣
Did you forgive TONY B LIAR for selling out the UK and his stupid wars???, what about the new conservative party? do you like the taxes now??
Thanks for the documentary it was great seeing the video 📹 👍 😀 👌 👏
An attractive young fillie? These guys needed to get out more.
Old "public school" educated Conservative stuck-up whatevers... sorry, but there are probably no polite words to help them. What a reticulated rule of rank.
The pitch of the audio seems to be a trifle higher than the correct version (perhaps even the speed?)
They do this to bypass copyright, but this case is probably bad encoding as the guy seems to have the proper license I think.
After watching this I think they got Margaret Thatcher all wrong in The Crown. She was played much too cold and unemotional and no sense of humor but that doesn’t seem to have been her at all.
I think Meryl Streep did a better portrayal of Margaret Thatcher
#Media did it all
Also the changes in hair color, style, pouf. They could have had some real fun with the hair. I knew she went blonder, but the bouffant was epic.
But they did get her strength , enter then being weak.
@@VideovigilanteUSA ???
if you don't remember the 70s ie the mess that came before thatcher, you cannot understand why she was so popular.
Popularity is meaningless, if you replace one mess with another… which she did.
@@wiretamer5710 rubbish ,you have no idea what you are talking about .She took the UK by the scruff of the neck and whipped them into shape from the disaster winter of discontent . She won 3 General elections in a row , brought inflation from 28% to 5 % by the end of the eighties . She sorted out the Unions good and proper , won the Falklands war , turned UK from the sick man of Europe to a thriving economy . She was by a country mile the most effective peacetime PM in history .
@@patrickcooney5423 perhaps they miss the days of shortage, and being managed by unions, that worked fine, right? NOT.
She almost lost after her first term, but the Falklands War helped restore her popularity before the election.
@@broadstreet21 Well she won by a massive majority ,and destroyed Michael Foot . She won 397 seats to Foot’s 209 . The Falklands success may have increase the majority to those levels , but Falklands or no Falklands she would have destroyed Foot anyway .
Her legacy is also BREXIT, for better or worse. In essence she understood the English more than any other British politician.
@UCrQF1uFGrgsNjA5LEAsuejA From my point of view, Conservative British establishment had always been in favour of 'special' relations with the continent. In Europe but never dominated by Europe, BREXIT bears witness to the empirical fact that they understood the English better than their political opponents.
She was way ahead of all those politicians that's why she wouldn't listen.
Excellent documentary
The problem is when you stop listening; both your friends and enemies can plot your down fall. All said 11.5 years is a not a joke, definitely an IRON LADY💪👍💪
Yes, an iron lady, with NO heart!!
My biggest problem was that while she gave Hong Kong island back to the Chinese (rather than give its people independence and their own sovereignty) because it wasn’t strategically advantageous to hold it, but at the same time, decide that they had a God given right to rule the Falkland Islands.
I’m not arguing that the Falklands should have been given up, or that Hong Kong be not given to the Chinese as part of the New Territories reversion to Chinese rule, but find the two decisions a little incongruous after over 150 years of British rule.
Trouble was that China said in no uncertain terms that they would invade if it wasn't handed over. Its one thing for Argentina to say that (a yapping Chihuahua), quite another for China (a fire breathing dragon.)
She didn't give Hong Kong back to the Chinese. Thatcher lost power in 1990 and Hong Kong was handed back in 1997. Also, handing Hong Kong back was not a choice - it was under the terms of a treaty with the Chinese that Britain would hand back HK in 1997. There was no pathway for Britain to give HK independence.
@@skeptical_sorcerer Hong Kong was not part of the treaty originally. It was ceded to Britain in perpetuity as part of the treaty of Nanking in 1841, which was ratified by the Daoguang Emperor in 1842. In 1860, the territory was expanded to include the Kowloon Peninsula (first and second opium wars, respectively).
In 1898, the *New Territories* were leased for 99 years, and were the only thing that was required to be handed back to the Chinese in 1997. It wasn’t until 1984 when Britain agreed to hand back the entirety of Hong Kong in 1997, instead of just the part they’d originally leased, as part of the Sino-British Joint Declaration. It was signed by two people: Margaret Thatcher, and the then premier of China, Zhao Ziyang.
As Margaret Thatcher later recounted, Deng had told her that he could “walk in and take the lot this afternoon”, insisting that China would not honour the treaty it had signed in 1842 (despite the then Emperor ratifying it). Her reply had been that there was nothing she could do to stop him, except that the world would know what China was really like.
So yeah, Britain did have a choice (albeit not a great one). As I said though, I’m not arguing that it shouldn’t have been given back, just that it seems out of step that the British felt the need to start a war so as to keep control over a small rock half way around the world, yet not stand up to the CCP and protect the democratic rights and freedoms of the citizens of Hong Kong.
@@skeptical_sorcerer But the handover was negotiated during her PMship, wasn't it?
@@jonnaughton Hong Kong was part of china and belongs to china
😃👍
Thank you for an insightful documentary on a brave politician
A good leader also listens.
Something Trump never understood. And that's why he's gone so fast. She was tough but reasonable - he was just arrogant.
@@gorylatko it would depend on who you ask and what their experience was. Many disliked and continues to dislike her..
@@gorylatko: Trump is a good listener. He's gone (for now) only because of theft.
@@billwilson5341 if he was a good listener he would have a better vocabulary, did not change wives every couple of years and have won a second term in Office. Unfortuanately, he is convinced that he is the center of the Universe hence his defeat. The only thing that was stolen in this case was many people's 4 years of life. I couldn't sleep well all this time, for example, because I didn't know what world I'm gonna wake up to the next day? His unbalanced behavior and offensive language kept me on my toes. You can always hang his poster in your bedroom and hope he is re-elected one day? You can also send him money to support his cause. He needs a lot of money now. Lawyers are expensive.
@@billwilson5341 wish we had him in office instead of Thatcher
how you get them is how you loose them. It's great when they're attacking others. Remember they will soon turn on you.
Truer words were never said;
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
Margaret Thatcher
The problem with capitalism is, that you eventually run out of money for all, and more and more stay with just a few...brexit will be a disaster for the uk in this 21st century, where so called uk-indepedent deals can be made on the world market..and the result will be a downfall of the pound and the british economy as a whole. Just a few in uk will profit. Nothing left for the people , only poverty remains.
@@philsarkol341 Besides America, name one nation that has lifted millions out of poverty.
@@philsarkol341 The UK has all the wealth in the EU and the Eunicks are trying to poach it.
The German financial minister committed suicide. Consumer growth is impossible for financial recovery in Europe.
The Germans have no children for a future work force. They need the UK to support them.
@@BenDover-wi9vb The uk has no wealth to prosper on. It stands alone with only the expectation of the financial markets staying in the uk for as long as it will be possible. There is no battle for or against europe..between uk and europe other than the lies that have been told to the mainly lower class ,working class , that uk would loose it,s identity, it,s souverignty, it;s britishness etc. to make this brexit possible. So on false emotional claims , the brexit has been executed purely for the capitalist upper-class, and their fear of losing control and power..and with a false nostalgia as if Brittain would be the ruling empire it once was, but it,s glory gone and faded before ww2. On an island there is just this much you can produce, the rest have to be imported. And the brexit makes sure that it will cost the people more than they bargained for. Poverty will be all that's left ,in the coming 21st century.
@@philsarkol341 In 1973 Britain entered a trade agreement with a Common Market. In 2020, Britain left a political union. It never voted in 1973 to lose its sovereignty and be subservient to rule from European bureaucrats in Brussels.
The whole point of Brexit is to ditch Euro trash regulations. We already know the UK’s socialist, no communist deep state tried to sabotage Brexit.
Now the UK can independently trade with the US. Too bad for the EU that needs trade (again - like the US and Britain) in order to finance their socialist governments.
Economically, she did great things for the UK, but at great cost to the workers but she committed the same mistakes as any long term national leader of any political or ideological leaning: She stayed too long, lost touch with reality, and did not step down gracefully despite the red flags all around her. Lesson: Two terms and out. Always leave them wanting more, not less.
Doing great things for the economy but at great cost to the workers seems like an irrecocilable contradiction to me. I was disgusted with her and her version of dog eat dog ruthless unalloyed capitalism. She said "You (U)- turn if you want to, the lady's not for turning." If I had been an MP I would have stood toe to toe with her and said "I am not for turning", and if it it meant I would starve to death, then so be it. Nobody has the monopoly on their determination to drive through what they think is right, and if I had had the opportunity I would have rammed her policies right back down her throat! Her policies did irreversible damage to the working classes. Look at what Britain has become. It has become a society rent asunder by a grotesque level of inequality to the extent that its cohesiveness is threatened. The origins of this inequality can be found in policies invoked by the Thatcher government from 1979.
@@colindant3410 People, the masses, have short attention spans and short memories. They care only for what's best and most profitable for them, and damn everyone else. No long term thinking here. Instant results, fireworks, parades, and colorful spinning wheels. The winner is the one with the best show, not the best and most capable team or ideas. This is how modern democracies are run, and this is how the great powers are in decline. The UK felt it most because of the loss of the colonies, and the costs of their military engagements. James Bond does not work for free. This is also how Thatcher won 2 re-elections. Ronald Reagan was a senile puppet whose strings and speeches were pulled and created by big corporations. This is how in his 8 years, the country accumulated more debt than in the past 200 - yet people associate him as an economically 'prudent" president. It didn't get any better after him.
@@colindant3410 hi im not British but im really curious abt this topic
Can you tell me whether the future governments were able to reverse her policies or is the inequality in britain still incredibly high?
@@sl4y8r76 Thatcher said her greatest achievment was Tony Blair. In other words, the left stopped being socialist.
'Economic' indicators of a country is a fallacy in the first place. All western society are at the richest, most developed, production and infrastructure rich, indebted, volatile, unequal and unhappy in the known history. Take note, if you can.
Am I the only one who's shocked at Thatcher's voice when she was young
Perhaps the quality of the recording has deteriorated over the years.
@@gregb6469 she was famously told to change her voice and to train it to sound deeper to display gravitas esp surrounded by male politicians who were often dismissive of female equals at the time.
She might have been the most hated prime minister but I think that Boris is catching up rapidly and may very well take the overall main title.
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Most hated prime minister by left wing extremists *
Was waiting on David and Nigel to pop out at StoneHenge
We shared the same birthday month and day, so she’s special to me.
No doubt, she was a remarkable leader and a face of democracy and justice. I've watched video references and I found her government back then, very interesting.
Lol, she was a fascist, what democracy are you talking about
@@Maximilian-Robespierre Good Lord, a fascist, really? LOL!
@@MargieM10 Yes, fascist
@@MargieM10: George A has no clue what a fascist is. George A thinks that Socialism is being social.
@Rob: When Margaret Thatcher was in office, NO ONE messed with England. Since her, England has pretty much gone back to their Namby-pamby ways. Were Margaret Thatcher still in office, England would not have "no go" zones. I'm guessing you'd prefer a Neville Chamberlain type?
This is what leaders today should be and must have the cajones to see things through without fear of losing political positions.
Sadly, too many politicians today, are career politicians and only look out for themselves in the guise of looking out for the interest of their constituents.
Gyles Brandreth: insightful without being judgemental, and a vocal deadringer for Stewie Griffin. Good show!
Whar is it with the music? I liked M.T. She was a woman of integrity and believe it or not, compassion. She wanted people to take care of their own life, and was she not right! Look at the world with every third person relying on handouts from government. No good for no one. We should have had more people like her today. In a modern version of course.
Stormy: Good comment.
Outstanding!
Lover her or hate her she was a Boss.
Her and Ronny, have no such parallel with the Trump era, he can fight well enough alone.
No, just prime minister... Lol!!
@@scottleft3672 I knoww... but what happened to Boris?
how you get them is how you loose them. it's great when they're attacking others. remember they will soon turn on you.
@@causeeffect7624 Thats the law of the left...Saturn eats it's own, normal folks respect their elders and betters.
Never said it I've been watching y'all's docs for years but thanks
I havent watched it all yet, but some technical criticism, 1. the sound could have been better (idk maybe this was the best audio quality available) and 2. I wish there were subtitles
Greatest pm of a generation, wish she was in charge now.
I’m alright Jack!
Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me!
No riff raff!
@ james smith…. I’m with you! We need a strong leader…. Always loved her strength, convictions and Love of Country!
@@pammaggio8135 Isn't Farage Thatcher in a suit?
There are not subtitles, please, could you put them?
Everything came easy to me, including and especially chemistry.
Yes, as an Irishman she was incredible in many, many ways and fair player to her. However, she was utterly loathed for so many of her policies. One of the latter of course was to be another despised and wicked British PM with regard to the people in the north of Ireland. I should also mention how many comments are in praise of her, another reason to observe, so many people ignore or fail to fully comprehend historical facts, and how, ALWAYS, ultimately, they can truly have devastating consequences for current times. By the way, I love England and lived there for many years.
Why was she loathed by anyone?
@@billwilson5341 she wasn’t loathed by anyone she was loathed by everyone
@@bigbaddog I grew up in China and immigrated to US at my 30s. I love her
@@Ling-us9td you would have known then that China was a lot like the dictatorship of Thatcher So many people left because of the hardships she created
@@bigbaddog Even Chinese government did the Thatcher style reform in 1980s by Deng, more radical than Thatcher. But I think Deng’s reform in economy part is basically right. If Deng did not reform, I won’t have chance and money to study in U.S. , then immigrated to U.S.
The way she continues to be praised is the proof that a substancial number of people doesn't have the slightest clue of what's going on around them and what are the causes of the effects they are experiencing, people do love characters and she played a good one.
Ebenezer Scrooge said it best. Decreased the surplus population.
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UK was in crisis and she recovered the country
She may be angel for some and evil for some (who gets disadvantaged due to her decision). You cannot just deny she was definitely a bold straight forward with morale that is right not for profits but for people's. I truly love Elizabeth as a lady and respect her limitation those days during those days when curtsy is to be earned. The fact that she did the right thing is not to allow her to bow (Curtsy) rightfully that's what earns her to be a true queen.
But I cannot think how would the situation be if both the ladies switched each other place.
She was a strong and cold minded lady when times needed a leader.
A leader to fund death squads in Northern Ireland and commit naval war crimes in the Atlantic?
@@kidfox3971 and how was that any different to before or after her?
Particilarly during the Falklands.!!!!
The backdrop at 4:35 looks a lot like the Suzallo Library from Seattle.
From the day Baroness Thatcher left Downing Street , England has been on a severe downward spiral , the main culprit being blair
Yes
After New Labour Britain was lost forever.
same neoliberal monster.
just different heads of it.
Yes. If Thatcher was there with Brexit, the EU would've been sorry.
Johnny P: The main culprit are those that vote for those that do not have the best intentions for their country.
It only went down hill when she was elected stupid
"Thatchers bloody Briton"
Rick, the young ones
Dear @timeline, PLEASE open the subtitles for this video
My British friend told me that Thatcher's policies were horrible towards the working classes, underprivileged and elderly. In fact, my friend has not lived in her homeland since she was a young woman because she couldn't afford to live a decent life there. She lived in the U.S. for over twenty years and now lives in Spain. Very sad. .... PEACE to ALL.
And she saved UK from debt foul
Not true, that's what populists in the opposition (communists/socialists...) always say... and lie. Spain? Well, good luck for her. I'm Spanish and we're worse and worse everyday... We might be getting to a point of no return already... You know why? Communism/socialism (disguised as socialdemocracy).
@@tenshko5055 lmao you're bulsh*tting. She F*CK UP the livelihood of the British working class, send death squads to Northern Ireland and pretty much started a low scale civil war there, supported the d*ck-tatorsh*t of Pinochet in Chile, and supported apartheid South Africa.
And perhaps her most unpopular economic policy was the "poll tax", a tax so unpopular that massive riots broke out, and to the point that she resigned to the mounting popular public opposition against her government
@@tenshko5055 No. North Sea oil did, which was conveniently timed with the 80's. Makes you wonder why she was so against Scotland having more autonomy.
Perhaps your friend should be more competitive. No one should depend on the government handout.
I'm working class and Thatcher never caused me any harm. I just kept on working whilst it seemed that the rest of the country striked.
And that is why England lost everything…
@@wiretamer5710 Exactly.
Seriously, there are people who are still dreaming of keeping those fancy mining jobs and get paid a lot?
You got Brexit ln the end Maggie.. You knew 40 years ago that it was a mistake!
True visionary.
The sound quality is very poor. It is very, very muffled with certain interviews. It needs closed captioning because I cannot understand what some of the speakers are saying even when I turned the volume up. Lord Howe in particular was just mumbling indecipherably. Please add captioning and fix this.
The video did not live up to the title, indeed I would say that it is a very balanced documentary.
With the notable exception of there being no mention of the mighty triumverate that brought down the Soviet Union of Pope John Paul, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the Iron Lady herself.
An autumn of understanding and a winter of common sense LOL This lady sees her metaphors through to the very end. Hahahaha
I notice that she made no mention of a Spring or a Summer.
@@kiwitrainguy 🗽SUMMER OF LOVE TOO CLICHE ?
@@kiwitrainguy 🗽LGBTQ SPRING ON OUR CHILDREN ?
This title immediately reminded me of the song "Maggie" about her by the British punk band The Exploited in the 80's. They didn't mince words in that one for sure 😬
The Exploited
wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exploited
Actually on the Yougov polling she was far more loved than hated
8:00 min plus mark, the guy interviewing her sounds like he inhaled helium 😆😂
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was unforgettable!
Excellent documentary about an extraordinary political figure!
She was indeed an iconic figure
She was an evil woman.
She was a visionary of the first order, particularly regarding the EU. Wish someone like her, with her beliefs and resolution was in charge of this country today. May she Rest In Peace!
I agree. Her belief in the benefits of the common market and free movement were right on.
By 9 months ago you had Brexit for years and BoJo and yet by now your dream is still plummeting. It is funny that when the UK was failing just before, during and after Maggie the city of London businesses was doing tremendously well making trillions of pounds over the years but the conservative voters never saw that as long as they could blame others for their pain. That is why Maggie a conservative seemed a hero but ultimately was a puppet of the masters who really want everything for themselves and as little as possible for those pesky workers with their stupid unions.
The same kind of people funded Brexit just for the sake of taxes.
Why background music?
what is the name of this music 15:31? please help
She's my kindred spirit. Her ideas make sense, it would take grit to accomplish them.
I don't think the young people realise, how much lucky Britain was to have this absolute boss lady in the male dominated world leading them in an era where USSR was much aggressive towards capitalist countries of the west. We couldn't ask more from her. The Iron Lady of the West in the truest sense.
@Marouane Nouveau She was vilified everywhere at endless times by so called Intellectuals & Liberals, yet she never used her gender as a defense. Soviets has gone on record saying they were afraid Thatcher more than Reagan. That speaks volumes of her courage & strength. I wish young people looked upto her. We need people like her more than ever.
I wasn’t born yet , 2005
@@AmeyChaudhary: I'm pleased to read your intelligent comments. Thank you.
The audio is all messed up… But thanks for posting lol
She was welcomed with incredible honour in USSR and even still believed as best politician in Russia because Gorbachev on comparison with her viewed not as reformer but empire (Soviet) destroyer.
I think in the late 1980s, Gorbachev and Thatcher were friends.
Why would a communist country love a conservative leader???
fontik: Most Americans who have a clue, also honour Margaret Thatcher.
@@reneesantiago6496 Because the people of the Soviet Union were unwilling CAPTIVES of that Communist country. The people of the USSR very much opposed Communism! Hence, they VERY admired public leaders of the West who supported individual Liberty, such PM Thatcher, and President Reagan.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter is that why the majority of soviets voted to keep the ussr when a referendum was held?
People: Nothing lasts forever
Thatcher's hair : NO! NO! NO!
Never allow POWER to get into your head: your brain simply 🦧🦧🦧
HELLO MILDRED HOPE YOU OKAY?
"Who'll take the ball from maggie thatcher"
the sound makes me feel like riding on a roller coaster.
She was an autocratic
Cold War Warrior I am grateful The Iron Lady existed! Thank you for helping defeat the Soviet Union!
Well, her government did help to damage the USSR much more.
Nobody "defeated" the soviet union. It collapsed under the weight of rampant corruption and an inability to provide results for it's people. All these "cold warriors" puff their chests out like they won some great battle. But all they ever did was cement a permanent military industrial complex, create hysterical witch hunts chasing phantoms, and bomb millions of innocent people for the sin of not wanting to live in Banana Republics.
this is why I like constitutional monarchies (from 39:00). It goes against the grain or idea of an elected leader and I know it is completely irrational but it somehow works. It is good that maggie was nervous of at least one person. I wonder what it would be like if Trump or Biden had to run a country but once a week go and bow down to a personification of the US and explain what was happening in the country. It ought to humble them if at least slightly. The queen wields no political power but she is a personification of the country
Interesting point. Always envied your constitutional monarchy, as an american, never understood why til you explained it now.
Thank God that's not the case. The royals are state sponsored Kardashians. They offer nothing and feed on the tax dollars of working people like leeches.
I'm in politics, and what you said is true. Small fishes tends to act big, while the biggest fish has the worst ego imaginable; albeit they don't show it publicly, it's crystal clear based on how they respond and acts.
It's true, that somehow the supreme executive power of a leader (President/PM) should be clashed upon a "pure" personification of a national subject. In britain case, its the queen; a living representation of ancestry, culture and might of Great Britain.
It's sad that legislative body of most democracies, fails to "embodied" this personification to match the leader. In the end, it's only transactional politics between the triangle (exec,leg,jud).
There is one overiding and invaluable plus to having a monarch.
It prevents presidential election politics.
That would be like having a brexit referendum every x years.
Bravo
In favour of old iron boots Maggie, she killed coal in Britain. In hindsight, it was better for the environment in the long run.
What happened in the beginning? 1:16
Because we aren't used to see Politicians determent to do whats necessary and not whats bringing more votes
This is my great aunt, my grandfather moved to the US I've never met her or spoken with her. This is the first time I've looked into her history. Very honored and interested in how she worked.
well then........goodbye thatcher!
If I am not mistaken,wasn’t she a affiliated with William & Mary? I think a chancellor.
If you go to the ＵK and meet minors or people coming from minors families you might want to think twice before mentioning any affiliation with margaret, trust me on that one. The minors and their families haven't forgotten her and never will.
You should be very proud to be related to her.
She put the argies in their place.!!!!
@@kachi2782
Miners.