Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Saved Great Britain | 5 Minute Video
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- You’ve heard her name. You might even have seen a film about her. But do you know the whole story of Margaret Thatcher - where she came from, what she stood for, and the impact she had on Great Britain and the world? Renowned historian Niall Ferguson explains how the Iron Lady earned her status as one of the most important and influential women of the 20th century.
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Script:
If you think the world is a mess now, that just means you weren’t around in the 1970s.
In Britain, where I grew up, the low point was known as “the winter of discontent,” a line borrowed from Shakespeare’s Richard III.
The inflation rate in 1975 was 27 percent. The trains were always late. The payphones were always broken. Nothing worked.
Worst of all were the recurrent strikes. Strikes by coal miners. Strikes by dockers. Strikes by printers. Strikes by refuse collectors. Strikes even by gravediggers.
It felt as if there was no way back. And then came Margaret Thatcher.
Between May 1979, when she entered 10 Downing Street as prime minister, and November 1990, when she stepped down, she changed everything.
Born on October 13, 1925, she was an improbable savior. Nothing in her middle-class childhood suggested the future ahead of her. A diligent student, she got into Oxford as a chemistry major. She worked for a small plastics company after leaving college but was rejected for a position at the British chemical giant ICI because, as the personnel report stated, “This woman is headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated.”
She needed all three of those attributes when she entered the world of politics as a Conservative candidate in 1950. After several failures, she finally entered Parliament in 1959. For the next two decades, she steadily worked her way up through the party ranks.
As early as 1975, Thatcher had come up with a wonderful line about the opposition Labour Party: “They’ve got the usual Socialist disease-they’ve run out of other people’s money.” This she contrasted memorably with what she called “the British inheritance”: “A man’s right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master …”
This was the essence of Thatcherism, and it was just the tonic that the patient-the British economy-needed. It’s fashionable nowadays to argue that there was no Thatcher miracle in the 1980s. Not only is that demonstrably false, it misses an essential point: Thatcherism wasn’t just about raising productivity or creating jobs. Just as important was the goal of defeating inflation and restoring prosperity to the middle class. This it emphatically achieved.
Yet the event that, more than any other, defined Margaret Thatcher’s premiership was not economic but military. The Falklands War against Argentina established her irrevocably in the public mind as the new Britannia, a warrior queen who gloried in victory. And, of course, it ensured a Conservative win in the 1983 election.
There is no question that sending the Royal Navy Task Force to the South Atlantic took great political courage. Many in her own party pushed for a negotiated settlement. But the lady was not for turning-not because she was nostalgic for the days of empire, but because the invasion was, to her mind, morally and legally wrong.
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“Do you think she effectively utilized girl power by funneling money to illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland”
Well i dont know about thaaaaat...
Ok the troubles were .................................. ok we get it but you know mistakes were made and yes it is a HUGE on but its a mistake. thats it, a mistake yes there might have been sinister motives yes it could be worse but lets just agree its a mistake....................ok you know what lets not discuss the troubles at all
The IRA killed members of the royal family during her time in office, as well as attempted to kill her and her party colleagues. Why wouldn't she send death squads after them? Although it is highly unlikely that she ordered anything, it is rather the case that a silent nod of approval was given by the entire ruling class to the right people to "do whatever it takes, and we do not ask for details".
@@mik1984 Look how well that turned out.
@@TheAwesomeTolga198 It did indeed.
Poverty doubled, mass unemployment, extreme civil unrest. Sure, she "saved" Britain.
She made the liberals mad and that's all conservatives care about
@Non Compos Mentis statistics and facts making a conservative mad. Who'd have thought.
She was also a warmongering brute who never sought out a peaceful solution
What the hell are you talking about, if you cared about statistics you would be for secured borders, liberty for people to own firearms and free markets. Instead you are a liberal who only cares about muh feelings 😂
@@karambadodox Someguan critecided a neoliberal whit statistical prove, what a hypocritical liberal
You're really going to make a video about Thatcher and not even MENTION Northern Ireland?
@Stalin a bunch of English conservatives don’t constitute “innocent people”
@Stalin The IRA killed innocent British people? Oh no, anyway.
@Stalin Bro if you’re bragging about having “high intellect” to a stranger on the internet, you’re not all that smart
Short video… Northern Ireland Republican terrorist should have been denied any leniency brought on to later negotiations.
That's because she would be portrayed as bad
Coal miners would like to know your location
And yet the miners are voting for the Tories now :)
@@tsetienchu2482 lol literally gave the tories a majority
Those miners were nothing but bloated, corrupt scoundrels holding the country hostage. I'll bet you weren't even alive back then.
And yet they would be dead of lung cancer if she didn't close them
lol. My former mining community’s local pub had a special on the day of her funeral. £1 a pint. We detested her. Simple as. Don’t like that? We don’t give a shite.
"Do not ask me how I feel; ask me how I think."
-Margaret Thatcher
@Snarky Mark
The original “facts don’t care about your feelings”
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She was a true conservative. Fewer people like that nowadays.
@@reinatr4848 -- So called "fact checks" are nothing but hard leftwing liars that call anything to the right of Bernie Sanders "fake news."
@@MarkMcDaniel So you dont want facts to be checked and you want everyone to believe in your BS.
Ever notice that feminists NEVER ever mention Margaret Thatcher as a proud example of a strong woman who succeeded? Why is that?
*EDIT:* From the comments, I see that Thatcher is seen as either a hero, or a complete monster. One thing is sure though. She was not weak nor submissive. She was *STRONG* and *INDEPENDENT* . Feminists, by their comments below, proves that feminism was NEVER about making women "strong and independent."
Because I'm pretty sure she said she wasn't a feminist
@@danielanthony8373 Feminists have power over the weak while pretending to be empowering. Thatcher was NOT weak so the feminists never had any power over her. Thatcher's iron will was the unforgivable sin.
She would not play their hokey "victim" card.
because she thought like a man
She hated feminism and didn't play victim?
You said “in 1990 when she stepped down” like she wasn’t kicked out of Downing Street by her own party
In all fairness to the Conservatives Thatcher’s style of leadership was outdated and she ignored valuable advice. But the man who replaced her as PM was spineless and sold us down the river to Europe. Then after that so did Blair.
You say that as if her party hasn't been going downhill rapidly.
Bloody right!
Fun Fact She was kicked out of office because she saw how the then EEC was becoming the EU and wanted out
That's not what happened though. read....
You know, if you showed this to a British audience that was representative of the UK's demographics, you'd have a massive brawl by the end of the video. Seriously, the one thing about her everyone agrees on is that she was controversial.
I'm british and while I agree that small business is a solution to our problems, big business is absolutely not. We'd be better if we made it easier for small business to function while dismantling the bigger fish
@@Srindal4657
We tried Thatcher's method during perestroika and shock therapy.... All i can say is that it only looked good on paper.
@@throwfascistsintopits3062 she was voted in 3 times. I'd say that's better than "looks good on paper"
@@Srindal4657
Mhm, yeah, elections are never rigged. Especially in Britain.
watch "Margaret Thatcher: A Response to PragerU and Niall Ferguson" on youtube
And she was right that a unified Germany would dominate the European Union
"Those damn Germans!"
D.a .n.a Hahahaha "the EU works fine". You must be one of the moronic unelected and antidemocratic bureaucrats who is paid to defend one of the most corrupt institutions in the world. Or may be just a dumb remoaner.
@@igorgorito1 ''most corrupt institutions in the world'' * seems about right
Most Germans would gladly hand over their position in the EU for getting their currency back.
@@hardwing Why would they want that?
"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you." -Thatcher
The "crowd" refers to the mob or popular opinion. Thatcher distinguished herself by arguing the rational and moral points against socialism, communism, etc. Her viewpoint was and still remains the unpopular opinion.
@@gabrielcanuteson4679 But like
Isn't the whole point of democracy preventing that? Isn't the *whole point* of democracy as a system that the crowd, even if they won't make the right choice, and the only people who can be trusted and invested with the moral authority *too* chose.
Spoken by a right honorable leader.
@@firetarrasque4667
"I espouse equality, not because I do not think there are none unfit for slavery, but because I see none fit to be masters."
-C.S. Lewis
@@HuntingTarg That's an utterly meaningless quote. What, we're all idiots? Yeah, no kidding. It changes nothing because anyone declaring themselves in charge would still be as worthless as the rest of us. Margaret Thatcher was in fact, a person, and is, in fact, included in that none.
Also that's a right shoddy view of mankind for a Christian to take, Lewis.
"Margaret Thatcher is dead" - Socrates
"The problem with peeing on my grave is that eventually you run out of piss" - Margaret Thatcher
Truly an icon for creating first gender neutral bathroom
Please pass the crack pipe.
That pee better be the remains of a bottle of milk.
"There's always more piss where that came from" - Most Northerners.
Someday, people will pee on your grave.
We must never let the piss run dry
The best story I heard of her was when visited the live fire training facility of the SAS. Her male assistant hit the deck when the shooting started and she told him to get up because he was embarrassing her.
Well they didn't call her the Iron Lady for nothing
@ElValuador -- Perhaps her male assistant had been a combat veteran where the reaction is automatic.
Faithful Patriot no, her male assistant was a liberal social justice warrior who was triggered when the trigger was pulled.
@@theseasnakewhisperer8649 I'd never heard that story before. I worked with several Viet Nam veterans that hit the floor when loud noises (falling stock) occurred in our factory and thought experience and training might be the cause.
_Thanks for clearing that up._
Factually incorrect. That's a myth. She was a reprobate.
Will they mention paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland 😳
I’m an American and I keep hearing that she did this but I don’t quite understand exactly what she did in Northern Ireland. Would you mind explaining?
@@Realcrapcontent basically it was some nationalist movement fueled by history and division which gave the IRA a holding in N Ireland margaret thatcher never liked these nationalist republican catholics and so took troops in
Here is a video about it
czcams.com/video/61JisaFGHFY/video.html
@@sbevexlr848 thx
Last I checked those "death squads" were killing wannabe terrorists that tried to take over a nation that wanted nothing to do with them. So shut it IRA larper
I showed this to my British friend. He told me to change it before he showed me his “particular set of skills.”
"A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master."
STANDING OVATION
"WoRkS aS He WiLl" Proceeds to close all the mines
Regardless of your political alliance or which party have formed government, you will still pay taxes,?unless you are rich enough to maximise the loop holes. The difference is what that elected party does with the taxes they collect from you.
@@employee962 She didn't prevent anyone from buying the mines and reopening them. If they were profitable someone would have snatched them up in a heartbeat, but they weren't. They were a nationalised industry which not only failed to make profit, they cost us millions each year and didn't even produce enough coal to heat half our homes.
@@RevoltingPeasant123 and surely with Extinction Rebellion saying we need more renewable energy sources and fossil fuels should be left in the ground where they belong then she was right to close the mines and it was brilliant foresight by her. Wonder what their answer is!
@@employee962 i bet you are some muslim immigrant.
*coal miners would like to know your location*
Yup.
Someone told me that more mines were closed by Labour governments in the 60s and 70s, than Mrs T later on.. Researching it, it seems to be true..
Under Thatcher 130 mines were closed there were nearly a thousand in the 1950s. So who closed the other 800 +
@@paulcooper3845 Sauce?
@@paulcooper3845 Their customers did. Houses were heated with natural gas, locomotives were powered with diesel or electricity and thus became much faster, more economic and reliable. Factories used electricity or diesel powered machines and not steam engines anymore. The list goes on and on. It's an evolutionary develepoment: coal and steam, oil/diesel/gas, electricity, renewable electricity in that order.
'Thatcher was a controversial figure, but even If you loved or hated her, there was no denying she was tough, like metal. Iron for example'
Oversimplified
Stubborn is the word
@@holmann_uk the word you’re looking for is dead
@@professionalcatgirl8592 No, the word they were looking for was stubborn. Idiot.
she gave the world the first gender neutral bathroom
Of course PragerU likes Thatcher
@@benners5650 They're, Einstein :D
@@benners5650 How ironic
@@ikkespillendekarakter3924 Einstein was a socialist so no
Prager U simply provides a platform for Conservative ideas. I have seen Dennis Prager himself voice opinions that utterly contradict the messages shared in the Prager U videos.
@@bradheff989 exactly, everyone can come and say something
ask the working/ middle class in UK how they felt when she died, i can tell you now they were quite happy, this women destroyed England from within with her policies. affecting mostly the working class
Yeah, no awful Victorian pit jobs. No philosophy of "managed decline", no massive government waste, no 70% top rated of tax, no unions strongarming the country, no crappy failing nationalised British industry turning out poor quality cars and costing the taxpayer millions to run, no three day week. Truly Britain in the 70s was a paradise lost!
@Nico Fourie you mean people who did work until thatcher and her government put them out of a job you anti working class bastard
It's interesting now looking back now, As a working class lad growing up North, I was taught/brain washed to hate Thatcher, and worship the labour party and socialist Ideals...trade unions, and big state...what a load of crap...My Dad still practically spits every time Thatcher's name is mentioned. I think the round beating of comrade-Corbyn in our last general election shows Britain has woken up to the scourge of communism and socialism, and the destruction it leaves in its wake. Thank god for Thatcher! And Boris!
I don't need to be brainwashed in order to hate the one who closed your factory and exposed her people to the ruthless cosmopolitan globalists who eventually ruined the whole country and made their children into a minority in their only homeland.
Conservatives that conserve nothing!
Scargill never went hungry. I remember he sued the dying carcass of the NUM about ten years ago, because they wanted to stop paying his phone bill. Somehow they'd agreed to do this in perpetuity. Really showing solidarity with the miners there. Yet, as you point out, most will still screech about Thatcher being the enemy. Labour and the unions used them and then spat them out when they'd finally lost their flavour.
The same! Now I know better she was the greatest
Lol same here. My aunty used to tell us to stamp on her pictures in the paper. 😂😂😂. I get a right load of earache for voting conservative ..my family still vote labour 😒
Yes a similar thing occurred within my family. My Mother like your father is repulsed by her name.
What are your families arguments?
Mine seem to be that she closed down Britain's industries or that we do not own our industries anymore.
That seems to he their main argument. But it seems she was good for the economy? Pro capitalism and anti socialism. Are there any truths to their assertations?
If she could see what has become of England today, she would break down and cry.
Good thing she's dead then
@@jackedmonds9301 oof
That's quite a cheery thought. Thanks for that.
good i would hope so
Nah she'd punch Boris, take over and end all this silly woke nonsense and get us moving again
When she funds domestic terrorism to suppress revolution 😍
Uwu
DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD
👏Girl Power👏
QUEEN
The only terrorists were the IRA. Thatcher fought with terrorists, which is a good thing.
This American loves Margaret Thatcher. I remember her, Reagan, and Pope John Paul II finally breaking the back of the Soviet Union.
We Americans and our then President Reagan desperately needed a staunch ally across the pond. Britain, led by the Iron Lady, was that friend, that ally.
We Americans and Brits may argue from time to time, like brothers do, over little things, but when the chips are down don't mess with our brothers! The Brits are our brothers. Make no mistake people of the world, America will always aid Britain. After my own nation, I would spend my life defending our British brothers!
Britain, America, Canada, and Australia must stand together forever!
hopefully trump and boris will emulate that alliance
Right on brother
Well, in a historical sense, Britain is America’s mother
@@-Faris- And many of us still feel that tie with the mother country.
As long as none of them turn socialist_comunist.
Mrs Thatcher was Prime Minister of the UK from 1979 to 1990. The British public voted for her at every election she stood for office. Impressive by any measure.
Is anyone going to mention the grave digger pun "my job is killing me?" and the other puns?
They are funny.
@@westerndefender9643 NAZI DETECTED The French and German version of the organisation your symbol represents has a handbook about how to physically silence anyone who disagrees with you and has links to an Islamic terrorist attack in France (where they provided the guns). Look into it, it portrays itself as wanting to save the west but that's not what it is.
Apparently not they where good puns
Jeez everyone's a Nazi with you people. Ever think that you might be the bad guys?
@@jonnysongs I think the biggest problem for conservatives here is the radical nationalists. Those guys often compete with mainstream conservatives. If it wasn't for those guys, we would have a conservative-liberal government right now.
Just glossing over Northern Ireland are we
you're right there, cause if it was mentioned her leadership would look even more glorious
I doubt this guy would have the same opinion of her if he'd worked down the pit like my dad and grandads did...🤣
Why they always assume that the strikes of the working class werent rightfull?
Working as a coal miner is a very dangerous and pretty shit job
When inflation is running at 20%
So...you'd need a 21% yearly wage increase ...just to stay even
@Newbuild Muse haha cry more loser
@@Twisttheawesome ofcourse working class fellow is a looser for you.
The left is the party of Ultra rich and Ultra poor. This is the reaso that slimy Bloomberg supports Dumbocrat.
I didnt know he was british until he had that deep “naweh” in 0:04
Why is a communist watching Prager vids?
That's a Scottish accent bud.
@Sono2 Aww man.
@@palaven4048 Eh not really. Maybe the accent of a Scot who's sold out so much he's making a video praising Thatcher.
@@frocco7125
They are funny af in how siplistic they are.
Thatcher is just 100% good to them. The fans agree. There is no room for disagreesment because the Left amitight frog boys?
MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD
And this isn't a bad thing at all!
@@Hannibu r/woooooooooosh
POGGERS!
Even the Soviets admired her. Among them she was known as the ‘iron lady’
Vengeful Camel wasn’t Wasn’t Stalin known as “The Man of Steel?”
Literally An M2 Flamethrower
His real name was iosif dzugashvili but he called himself ‘Stalin’ which meant ‘steel-y’
authoritarians tent to have good relations
Some commentators called her "Attila the Hen."
billy khan
You’re correct
I'm Argentinian, and while I think there's no good reason for the Malvinas Islands to be a British colony, I agree that the 1982 attack was gratuitous, unprovoked and the last throes of an unpopular, genocidal military dictatorship, and I'd rather the Islands be relatively well-kept than they be destroyed by the failing economy of this dysfunctional country.
I have one family member and one friend who fought in The Falkands. It's struck me in recent years that your military were our last honourable enemy - I mean the ordinary soldiers, sailors and airmen, of course.
Since 1982, my friend and other family members have fought only dishonourable terrorists like the IRA, Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
The strange thing is that at the time the Thatcher government was looking for a way to get rid of The Falklands without upsetting the Tory right too much. It's quite possible that, without the invasion, The Falklands would by now be subject to joint sovereignty, or some kind of leaseback arrangement.
As an argentinian, I couldn't have said it better
Ah Didums 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pelé es mejor que Maradona
@@ericorenato88 El ser humano promedio es probablemente mejor que Maradona...
As far as I am concerned Thatcher is up there with Churchill
Churchill got the UK into a war that could be avoided...
@Julio C actually that’s very incorrect he saved Britain from a war that could have been the end for the country
Julio C Churchill's predecessor, Chamberlain, got us into that war by insisting on two useless negotiations that Nazi Germany quickly and predictably violated. All Churchill did was do his best to cleanup Chamberlain's mess.
@@rockbuddy5341
Churchill's war ended in the complete dismemberment and destruction of the whole British Empire.
@Gregory Malchuk is that a bad thing ??
Wow - this is a nice re-write of history. I particularly like the bits where Thatcher didn’t completely ruin the UK economy, but rather saved it. Please pass me over what you’re smoking man
A great deal of their videos are revisions of history. It’s even scarier considering that they pass these videos off as “educational.”
this year.. this bitch will be really hated...
When she came to power inflation had been over 20% for several years. She managed to reduce inflation back to normal levels and continued to stay at normal levels up until recently, so yes, she did save the British economy.
@@tepesobrejac4360 If you reduce inflation specifically by making life hell for working class people, you haven't saved anything.
Human wellbeing comes before the economy. It takes serious moral rot to believe otherwise.
@@squirrel_slapper
It's ironic you say that taking into consideration that the greatest threat to human well-being in the long run is and will always be inflation.
In the short term Thatcher's anti-inflation policies (high interest rates and budget cuts, which are the single most effective ways to reduce inflation) did also lead to a spike in unemployment, from around 5.5% in 1979 to close to 12% in 1984. But, by the end of Thatcher's premiership, unemployment did fall back to 7%, while it's unlikely that inflation would have ever been reduced without Thatcher's monetarist policies. Between a temporary unemployment crisis and a permanent inflation crisis, I'd happily choose the one that has a light at the end of the tunnel.
Punk rocker: "She work seven days a week man. Can you think of a better way to run the country".
Interviewer: "Why this constant need to defend Margaret Thatcher".
Punk rocker: "She reminds me of my mum"
She wasn’t called the Iron Lady for nothing.
She terminated free milk given to children at schools. As a result, mothers called her "lady with a heart made of iron", "cruel bitch" etc
It was usually women who hated her meanwhile Soviet oligarchs (men) admired her. This speaks a lot about female mentality.
@@Todsor I think it's better to have good economy than damn free milk at schools.
CroatiaMati _ what this video left out is that her de-industrialization of Britain ruined their rural economy. There is a reason she was the most hated women in British history.
@@chickenintrousers6723 "Ruined their rural economy"
She was actually good with economy. What are you talking about?
@@angryinternetperson6629 Her economic policy sucked. She got lucky with the North Sea oil boom and the slowdown of growth in Europe allowed Britain to reach parity with Europe. However, her major legacies would be deindustrialisation, privatisation of public services and stringent anti-union/worker rights.
One of my favorite memories of her was the call made to George Bush encouraging him "not to go wobbly", during the war with Iraq.
The phrase came back later on: During the second war, with the second Bush, 'Wobblers' was a term used by the tabloid media to mock politicians who opposed the war. One - I think it was either the Sun or the Mail - did a double-page spread depicting politicians faces on cartoon bowls of jelly, wobbling in proportion to how much the cartoonist judged them to be anti-war.
That was the Gulf War.
Why on Earth she got rid of apprenticeships I`ll never know , a monumental mistake by her and the government.
To break the power of the workers no more future support for union finance therefore affecting their capabilities to fight the rich businesses.
[THE MARGARET THATCHER REPORT HAS ARRIVED]
yup still dead
MARGARET FATCHER IS DEAD!
Honk if Thatcher's dead
good!
BASED
Based
I saw the changes she made while living in England. It was amazing. Overnight it seemed Britain came alive again.
Britain came alive? More like Britain turned into the rich man's paradise it has become today. Britain certainly didn't come alive for the millions who lost their jobs
Yeah like cementing poor poeple in poverty....
@Marvin Brando Eh...no many of her policies have been bad long term.
@@Luca-bv5ic Go live in Venezuela for a while...that'll make your college professors look like consummate fools.
Linda Lambert except she did nothing during the troubles and wouldn't help bobby sands
Only 2 hours since it was posted and already the video about Ricky at the Golden Globes has been censored; you much have really hit a nerve with it. Keep up the great work!
The Falklands wasn't a war.
It's officially "the Falklands conflict" because there were no declarations of war
What do you think about my Margaret impression:
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"She was the leader, proof that sometimes it really is a single individual who can change the course of history" As long as you have the support needed to hold power...
She made them support her and she *kept* them supporting her. Or do you think they gave her their support out of pity?
@@jovanleon7 - Why are the only two options in your mind that she "made" them support her, or she was supported out of pity? Most elected officials do not do either of these things.
@@Sylvertaco She made them to support by showing her strong character and great decisions
@@jovanleon7 - So you mean to say that her constituents chose to support her over other options due to her character and decisions. No one was "made" to support her.
@@Sylvertaco thats not meant to be taken literally. 🤦♂️
Dublin Ireland here, I lived in her world in the 80s and I saw how her policies helped my friends become millionaires and to this day I can thank her because it showed me I could achieve anything and I did as long as I worked hard, I did see her in Person once in Winchmoor hill North London.we could do with her now Bless you, Margret.
Crazy that you're Irish and are a fan of a British prime minister just because she helped the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The working class haven't recovered from her economics. Just because her economics benefits people you know doesn't mean you have to like her, plus the way she handled Northern Ireland??
You're a fool and a class traitor. Helping the rich get richer is not a good thing, you dickhead.
Hope she sees this bro
LMAO
“The problem with Thatcherism is that you eventually run out of oil in the North Sea”
Huh? It doesn't work. She spent her time closing down fossil fuel industries.
That's cheap dude and you know it
The Norwegian Oil Fund is something I always admire. Did the UK have anything similar?
@@walkerhaw600 it's cheap to criticise bad policy?
some supporting stats would be nice
PragerU never support their claims with stats because their dogma is not supported by stats. Whenever they want to make it seem like their beliefs are factual they just draw a y=x line and put whatever they want on the labels. These are the same fools that have a video named "Facts don't care about your feelings" but they never support their claims with sources. The irony.
You can ask for nice and you can ask for conservative, but you cannot ask for both.
But they are not wrong the last government gave the unions so much power that nobody was working the country almost went bankrupt
@@TinyBearTim your country was built with unions
@@iamalittler workers unions u nub
Just watched Ricky Gervais at the Golden globes.
He was absolutely brilliant ⭐
One truth bomb after another.
That's nice... the video was about Thatcher...
@@bart797979 Easy Bono, don't get tango'ed
@@hereagain8344 Lol not tangoed or triggered. U made me smile even though I hate bono... I'm guessing u mean the glasses.
Just wondered why someone is writing about something which appears to be so irrelevant.
It may be that Ricky Gervais said something about Thatcher, but that wasn't specified and I've not seen it.
Gervais isn't funny. He's a complete imbecile devoid of wisdom or understanding.
@@bart797979 Good sport 👍🏻😉
The problem with this video is, once again, that it is self-congratulatory bubble making. Overall, I agree (as a fellow Brit) that her contribution was positive overall, but stating that she categorically saved our country is misleading, and the complete denial of any criticism highlights the motivation of the presenter. For example, the reason for trade union anger was runaway inflation, but that was already on decline before Thatcher came into power. In fact it actually skyrocketed after her election, but by 1983 she had brought it back under control but not without a ruthlessness that had consequences. Similarly, the fact that she took away the power of the unions is a positive, but the way in which she did it caused so much division that the scars still remain today. She also massively increased unemployment and homelessness, which shouldn’t be forgotten. Famously, she drastically reduced state ownership, which has been beneficial overall, but again, there are notable exceptions to the success of this policy, namely public transport in the UK which has been a continuous mess ever since. In the world where we live, it is important to stop this kind of partisan blinkered world view and accept that if you cannot apply critical thinking and self reflection of your own beliefs and ideological positions, you are an easy target for extremists.
This was the best thing I have read whilst trying to understand the concept of Thatcherism. I am a sucker for objective thinking .Thanks so much.
In Korea we have a similar relationship with our President Park (the Elder, not his daughter), where some people consider him to be the person that literally saved South Korea and turned it into what it is today, and others considering him to be an authoritarian despot who uses power to ruin the lives of others and his enemies. This extreme disparity between love and hate of a single political leader is very much alike how Americans feel about Trump, as well as Thatcher's Legacy. It's a hard thing to come to terms to.
Well said!
PragerU's Five Minute Videos are not designed with the Intent of explaining all that there is to such deeply Complex Issues of Politics, Philosophy, Economics, maybe etc. They rather are more or so Introductions to these Topics, and thus there is plenty of Oversimplification. It is not for the Sake of creating a relatively extremely politically polarized Bubble.
I totally agree with you, Thatcher made many good changes, but she did some terrible ones as well.
Her period as a prime minister was not a nice big rainbow sandwich.
Let's not forget that the unemployment rate was still high, the change of model was a bit disastrous during the first 7 years, the City of London was wrecked and some conflicts in and out of the UK and the commonwealth were not in her interest task list
Can’t get enough of living In a poor community because I lost the local coal mine
Then go somewhere, where there is work. The Industrial era is over.
@@aronraszkiewicz1942 But the issue is its a poor community, 0 investment from our MP because he is a complete Tosser and no one has money except the people who liquidated the businesses that were already there
@@billclinton3862 First of all, you have all my compassion. Sincerely. I live in Poland and grew up in two poorest areas in this country, second of which is the fifth poorest town in Poland almost all young people left. In the Communist times, it lived off ONE steelworks, a "mother ship" for everyone. After Communism went down, the industry it ran went bankrupt. Everyone there still "remembering", how "good times" Communism was and me, a 32-year-old being self-employed in what I created myself is looked at as a weirdo. But it needed to happen so we could unleash our national potential and go forward as a nation. I went from that place to a big town where I am trying to grow as much as possible, constantly pushing forward and knowing that I have much harder work to do than others my age. People my age I knew who remained in that poor towns are now slowly falling into alcoholism and most of them failed while trying to leave the "community" that raised them in nostalgia for slavery. I would not be surprised to observe similar situations in your community. Maybe you cannot leave due to e.g. ill relatives to take care about (which I fully respect). However, if your current community is poor, then go where the hearts of the nation are beating nowadays and grow towards things that are top industry nowadays. I am 32 and currently trying to convert in to IT (I am a BA History graduate), left the poor place for a big city. Go to London, for example and fight your way through life where there is future nowadays. In the next 30 years, your children / grandchildren will probably go where "their times" make them go to in order to seek for their future.
@@aronraszkiewicz1942 Poland is a nation which has gone through it all and has helped the UK in winning world war 2, Poland is a wonderful place and though Capitalism has its flaws its a system that works but a lot of people in government like to exploit those flaws for their own gain and its seriously beginning to reflect on the population.
I come from wales which has little to no development and has 16% of its taxes given to the UK treasury which makes is hard for us to move forward, And in my eyes The UK government doesn't want to let us go because they are getting our electricity and water free of charge which is vital for England and to be clear i want a UK just not one that has 33 welsh MPs to over 500 English ones, It simply is not fair and our housing market is getting destroyed because people like to buy cheap cottages in wales to live in for 2 weeks then go back to England for a year
And further more we were essentially dragged out the EU and were promised the same amount of funding we were given by the EU and they haven't given us numbers yet or even how they will pay us
I know I am ranting a lot but these are issues and if I sound like I don't know what i am talking about I do, I am just very poor at explaining it
Where you gonna burn it ??? Jesus Christ how dumb are socialists
*And they say women are being oppressed.*
Truth is many feminist don't want equality, they've had that for a long time, they want preferential treatment.
Wow so there was one woman leader amongst 100s of men throughout history and this is equality?
@@d_a_n_a. You know that has nothing to do with equality?
@@d_a_n_a.
Read Thomas Sowell - we must get clear on whether what we are after is *statistical* equality or *legal* equality.
Ever heard of _sub Lex Juris Equus?_
(Psst! That means "Equal Justice Under Law." )
HuntingTarg Psst I’m a law student so I do know what this means. I do not want perfect statistical equality but I want some. Because the law won’t change the mœurs. People’s minds won’t change that quickly so even I they can employ a woman they won’t. Don’t want to
I’ve heard British say why they don’t like her with much better details and reasons.
Like her use of police brutality on sticking workers. Problems caused by privatizing services. And the fact the economic growth under her was caused by North Sea Oil money, not any policies.
Balderdash. You're equating brutality with using lawful force to deal with obstructors, not protesters. And that 'oil money' would never have made into the pockets of the spenders on whose prosperity the economy depended under the previous policies
HuntingTarg They where worker who wanted to be treated better and got their heads bashed by cops on horse back brandishing batons.
And what where the ‘previous policies’?
I never gave you guys permission to talk about me!
From the bottom of my heart understand this: as a Brit, we pay the price everyday for Thatcher's privatisations. We have dug ourselves an economic hole, praying that the now private companies do the right thing and keep prices low, whilst our government has no way of regulating prices or encouraging investment into the services. Our internet is terrible, our water services are corrupt and expensive, our trains are expensive and under-maintained leading to delays and strikes, and all this is just the beginning. All of these things have put pressure on our society to the point where everyone is demanding more money via strikes, causing more inflation, everything is going tits up.
Yes, she helped the economy, but the neoliberal ideals were extremely short-sighted and we are now paying the price. It will cost billions of taxpayer money, as always, to get us out of this hole. Even though they are private, it will always be the taxpayers that bail them out because it will always be the taxpayers who suffer; who can't get to work; whose travel is disrupted; whose currency worth is being ruined; whose cost of living is now unaffordable; honestly there's too many things to name.
I do not believe she is a bad woman, she was decisive and very intelligent and stood up for what she believed in - she wasn't crooked or corrupt, but, unfortunately, she was wrong.
I'm just so glad Corbyn, his preferred pronouns, and The Labour Party got their ass handed to them by BoJo and The Conservative Party.
Remember 2008, when the Banks went bust? It shows you what happens when Capitalism runs out of other people's money.
@@noelpucarua2843 How would socialism solve the problem? Give you more welfare?
Noel Pucarua the banks went bust because the government didn’t bail out one of them. Gov bailouts are socialistic as shit. Your move
@@noelpucarua2843 you spelt communists wrong
@@noelpucarua2843 I don't you understand how capitalism or socialism works.
In capitalism you own your own money and take the risk of where it goes and how it's used.
In socialism the state own your money. You don't own anything. Your ass belongs to the state. For reference ask any Soviet or Chinese
North sea oil played a bit part in the success of Thatcherism and it probably wouldn't have been so successful without those revenues.
Whilst I agree Thatcher did many good things, she also presided over the expansion of London's financial sector at the expense of British industry, hence the reason the Tories are generally disliked in the North and parts of the Midlands. Her use of interest rates (monetary policy) to curb inflation decimated industry in the Midlands and the North.
Its not quite the rosey picture painted in this video, I know because I witnessed it first hand but I do accept tough decisions needed to be made at the time given the problems inherited by Thatcher's government.
What we don't know is whether an alternative approach would have been more or less successful in the long term for the country as a whole.
The closing of the gold window by Nixon in 1971 put all global currencies on a psuedo fiat currency system. This, along with large deficits from welfare and warfare made investors lose confidence in the currencies and so they declined. If paul volker in the US and maggie here didn't increase interest rates, this decline would have persisted until total loss of confidence in the currency at which point the poor get hit the most.
any endorsement from "Prager U" pretty much tells you everything
As Argentinian and as a soldier, I put my pride aside and recognize she was one of the greatest women that politics ever met
Wow! That's really gracious of you. After all, the Falklands war is decades ago and Argentina has since become a democracy. There is no reason why Britain and Argentina can't be friends nowadays. God bless you.
It is all because of Galtierri. The Argentinians are innocent.
@@darnit1944 actually it's something common on every (populist) politician: desperate for not losing their power they do all they can to keep it, no matter the cost and specially in latinoamerica.
Game recognize game. It's the reason why two generals like Patton and Rommel could respect one another despite being on opposite sides of the war. It's almost like if it wasn't for the fact that they're on opposite sides they could probably be good buddies.
Muy bien dicho.
I always admired Margaret Thatcher, even though I'm in the US. Remarkable woman.
A lot of people abroad (apart from Argentina and Ireland) think that she was a good pm, and I can see why. But her policies completely screwed every single working-class family in Britain. She did nothing about the troubles. And when she died, people celebrated..
Because she was so hated amongst the working class, and for good reason
She was right about the EU too.
She was a fabulous politician who changed the U.K. for the better, by a country mile.
this video: margret thatcher is great
free school milk:
"free"
@@izdatsumcp Great comment! Just 1 word, yet speaks volumes.
It’s not free because it comes from your taxes
@Non Compos Mentis labour stopped free milk for secondary school it thats what youre referring to? thats not the same as taking it away from literal 6 year olds
@Non Compos Mentis whose decision it was doesnt change things? it was the tories who did it and she was prime minister
i could believe you if you give a citation and context and whatever his apparent reasoning, im not closed off to the idea
Boy, you're lucky they don't show dislike numbers anymore!
My parents were in England in 1989 and met relatives from her father's side of the family. They owned a commercial real estate firm, a heating oil company, multiple John Deere dealerships, and several general stores. Of course they were Tories. They thought the 2 greatest prime ministers of the 20th Century were Churchill and Thatcher.
And they were correct in thinking that.
@@josephhummert8756 Churchill was a racist eugenicist who opposed the creation of the NHS, one of the only good things about being british, and believed himself to be above every other member of his country. Not a good prime minister.
@@jamesbaker2092 , where exactly do you think the English would have ended up in world War 2 with out him? It's easy in the safety of your nice settled life to criticize the past with hind sight and by today's standards. The facts are inescapable..... Churchills leadership was the right thing at the right time.
@@josephhummert8756 His leadership was definitely instrumental I the allied victory, but that doesn't mean he is worthy of celebration in light of what a horrible person he was.
@@jamesbaker2092
To defeat a total b@stard like Hitler, you need your own. Russia had Stalin, who actually killed millions more people. Our biggest b@stard at the time was Churchill, ably assisted by "Bomber" Harris.
The only really awful thing FDR ever did was round up all the Japanese Americans as potential spies- but at the same time they had Patton, MacArthur and others who were more than willing to step in.
“She saved Great Britain”
30 years later her youth was defacing Sir Winston Churchill’s memorial and burning union jacks
4:28 Unless your Irish or scottish
As an American, I never understood what thatcher did do the Irish or Scottish. Would you mind explaining?
Why can't we have more women like her?
Insted of crazy socialists like Clinton, Waters and Pelosi
Because they are no women. They are whining witches.
@@maryluy5604 not true, what about Candace Owens, or Tomi Lauren?
None of them are socialist
@@miaoo9373 exactly my point
You can't genuinely believe Clinton and Pelosi are socialists lol? They are economically right-wing.
Anyone in Britain who remembers the 1970s knows that Thatcher was right, including many old lefities who hate her for that very reason.
She prevented Britain from becoming a less stylish version of Italy.
How have here policies turned out long term though...there's a reason most young people aren't huge fans of hers.
@@Luca-bv5ic She did what was necessary at the time, and we in the UK are the beneficiaries today. When I said "She prevented Britain from becoming a less stylish version of Italy", I meant that comparison to be here and now. Italy today is a bankrupt, near failed state. And, as the current coronavirus numbers show, it's the people who suffer. Just for a quick comparison (2019/2020):
GDP/cap US$ Italy 33,156, UK 42,385
Unemployment Italy 9.8%, UK 3.9%
Debt % GDP Italy 134.80%, UK 85.9%
countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/italy/uk
@@davidcockayne3381 Ye she did do what was beneficiaries at the time. But are we really beneficiaries today? The public services she nationalised have had the tax money put into them sucked out as profits. Our trains are still sh t. The right to buy scheme worked wonders for that generation of homeowners. But todays generation don't even have council houses in the first place, let alone the ability to own one. Plus her deregulation policies have increased wealth inequality and arguably contributed to the 2008 financial crash. So although her policies were undoubtedly good short term, I would hesitate to say the new generation now are beneficiaries.
And ye Italy has massive issues but you can't really call the 9th largest economy in the world a failed state. Also Britain has been more prosperous than Italy for centuries, so its not that surprising we have a higher GDP. And finally I don't think coronavirus numbers are a good reflection of economic prosperity. The US isn't doing too well is it?
@@Luca-bv5ic I said 'near failed state', and that's not just my opinion it's also that of The Economist and the FT (see one example below). If you think today's trains are shit, I can assure you they were much worse in the 1970s under public ownership: there was virtually no intestment, the rolling stock was in appalling condition (many of the carriages stank), there were constant strikes and you never knew if your train was actually going to turn up.
Housing is a problem in this country but that's not Mrs Thatcher's fault. Unlike most European countries we have an obesession with being house owners and that tends to drive up prices. Also, the country is afflicted by selfish nimbies and a sclerotic planning system.
As for comparative prosperity, there is no relaiable data for centuries ago, but if you consult the graph below, you will see that GDP/cap for the two countries was very similar from 1960 to 1990 and only since then has Britain outpaced Italy; as a direct result of Mrs Thatcher's bitter medicine. And bear in mind the huge difference in unemployment figures.
www.ft.com/content/b3c85b34-e10a-11e8-a6e5-792428919cee
data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=GB-IT
@Chesty McStudmuffin wow what a contribution you're making. A lot of well thought out points and counter arguments. Pathetic.
I'm argentine and i love Margareth Thatcher.
you are a sell out. shame on you
simp
@@luciano2003.yeah, she's in hell 😂
youre a minority
Jesus that voice is amazing you should be a voice actor
To those of us on the other side of the Atlantic: how did England get like that in the 1970s?
It was the Labour government...or as you call them The Democrats.
@@bobwallacejnr6852 Labour is related to Communism in a way
solialism..the breeding ground for laziness and incompetence, but also our class system ie. you went to public school your management, you went to state school your factory floor, no merit just class prejudice
"They're a weak lot some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble" - Margaret Thatcher
Now, it's Britain who is weak.
That’s a real empowered woman! That’s one who really represent us. She was brave. A woman who saved a country. Who saved everyone’s jobs and lives, men and women. However, she didn’t need feminism for that, just as all the women don’t need feminism for anything.
Remember we only have to be lucky once you need to be lucky every time
"It is better to be despised by the despicable than to be admired by the admirable."
Thatcher was both.
What she did to the irish is unforgivable
What exactly did she do the Irish that you dislike?
What the Irish did themselves was unforgivable.
Didn’t the IRA try and kill her?
The commentator is correct, when thatcher became prime minister of the UK everything changed.
People can no longer get NHS dentistry and are resorting to removing their own teeth with electricians pliers. People are ending up in accident and emergency by ambulance, having had a heart attack, and being made to wait over 5 hours to be seen.
Affordable mortgages are now beyond most peoples means, with huge deposits being demanded and huge monthly repayments. If you can't afford a mortgage, £1500 - £2000 is being demanded for rent in the south east. Little or no local authority social housing is available as the conservatives allowed in 1.2 million immigrants in 2023, net immigration being about 764,000, 2023 being about 685,000, about 200,000 UK are built leading to a large deficit in houses, pushing up house prices, benefiting house builders, property developers and private landlords, of which about 25% are conservative MPs.
Child care is not affordable, costing a full salary from a couple after tax.
Electricity and gas prices are through the roof to maintain company profits and dividend payments. Water companies discharge untreated human effluent into rivers where people swim, for similar reasons.
Young adults are leaving university with £60-70,000 of debt for their education, many without a hope of getting a well paid job to pay it off. the minimum wage being only £11.44 circa 2024.
Employees are forced to accept substantially less than inflation and forced to sign changes to their employment contracts, so working late into the evening is becoming common, especially for carers, whilst foreign venture capitalist buy care homes, mortgage the properties to the hilt, leaving the care homes to pay the interest on the debt. This is why care home staff are on minimum wage yet it costs £1000 per week per person to look after your elderly parents.
The NHS is so underfunded, 10-15% of staff are leaving for less stressful jobs. Hospital buildings are crumbling as little maintenance has been done for over a decade.
Legal aid is now impossible for most people to get, yet parking fines, fines for accidental littering are through the roof,with very little chance of appeal.
Police only care about speeding. Yet if your daughter is raped, less than 2% of perpetrators are convicted. Police will not investigate most burglaries or stolen vehicles, only give you a crime number for you to claim from your insurance. But mention foreign grooming gangs or whistle at a pretty girl, you're likely to end up in court.
Decent occupational pensions are gone, and the UK state pension is 15th compared with other European countries, taking into consideration living costs, barely breaking even.
No doubt the commentator has taken all this as some sort of success?
The title should have been - thatcher - the woman who put grate back into Britain.
This is awesome! I remember watching her on tv when I was a kid. Dont remember anything from college about this.
Shes amazing! God gave England Mrs. Thatcher and Ronald Reagan to USA.
Thatcher Shall rot in hell
You see you can't say I don't remember anything form college about this, watch one CZcams video (a very informative one at that) and suddenly think you have a firm grasp on her.
It's like reading Cromwell practically invented modern day democracy and skimming over the massive amounts of genocide
They both were terrible for their countries unfortunately.
Maggie, one of my favourite leaders, much like Churchill, not without fault but strong and resolute
Churchill was into eugenics and Thatcher used the working class as a fleshlight.
I wish there were more Thatcher, that means more public bathrooms
Funny how selective one can be with interpretation of the past
But he's right. Pre-thatcher, due to successive poor tory and labour govts, the UK was in disarray. Trade unions bankrupted the UK, so she did what needed to be done. Even the previous labour leader Harold Wilson wanted to reduce the trade unions' power, however he didn't have the balls to go through with it.
@@tomd9243 Nowhere did I say the trade unions didn't need taking down a peg or two . It is titled the woman who saved great Britain. I said its funny how selective you can be when interpreting the past .
Countless people unemployed and shoved into low paid jobs . The credit economy she inspired which has ruined so many lives . The low retraining rate of workers which condemned millions to lifetimes on the dole . The firesale of social housing . If the Falklands war never happened she'd be remembered for very different reasons
@@tomd9243 she ruined everything
@@HH-qz1cg :D
Agreed
Some one recently pointed out that the conservatives have had 2 female PM's.........now how many have Labour had 🤔
The irony of your comment. So gender politics are only OK when the right uses them?
@@tiger_795 i wasn't even replying to you but ok
@@Luca-bv5ic Actually, it just goes to show that the party that DOESN'T play gender politics, has actually had, unapologetically, several female leaders, yet the side that DOES, has not. And that should make you think
@@DrKaii I'm not saying the Conservative party is using gender politics by having a female PM. I'm saying OP is using gender politics, because he is, bringing up gender when it couldn't be less relevant and using tokenism to one up the other side. If a left wing person did the same thing he'd jump on them instantly and you know it.
@@Luca-bv5ic I'm not saying that you are saying that the Torys are playing gender politics, I am just trying to explain the point that I think OP is making, which it seems you missed when you characterised their arguments as gender politics.
Just contrast Margaret Thatcher's reaction to the redesign of British Airway's tail fins to Angela Merkel's disdain for the German flag.
"The woman who saved Great Britain."
laughtrack.mp3
The right PM for the right time in Britain. Can you imagine if more modern political leaders had her grit?
For a moment i forgot that i clicked on Prager, so this makes a tiny bit more sense here
January 2020 - "If you think the worlds a mess now..." Well, that didn't age well!
Las Islas Malvinas are Argentinian, but kudos to Thatcher. As an Argentinian, it enrages me that they are still under Brittish rule, but the fact is that we tried to recover them as a means to strengthen the ruthless and tyrannical rule of Galtieri. So, in conclusion, I don't want to acknowledge this but maybe its thanks to Brittain and Thatcher that Argentina managed to escape the woeful Proceso de Reorganizacion Nacional. Happy and angry at the same time :):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_Galtieri
back in the old days when progs demanded we elect a woman for (whatever), I used to piss them off 'saying if you can produce one like Thatcher, she's got my vote'...
Kim campbell moment
An amazing woman
I've learned more in one year from PragerU, than I learned from 9 years in college.
Prager University taught me effective propaganda techniques, why we should give more money to Israel and that reasons women need to put out for men more.
Don't trust in it too much though. Prager isn't a university, they are a political advocacy group - their videos are often riddled with misrepresentations. Not really outright lies, so much as lies by omission - they just don't mention any fact which would be inconvenient for the narrative they wish to teach.
@@vylbird8014 That sounds exactly like 95% of all media ... and the college I attended. I know that all media is somewhat subjective but, at least PragerU seems to be in line with common sense.
Most of what is being pushed by Democrat owned media sources, is just non-sense.
She also killed Rhodesia and increased the police state inside of Britain. These should be mentioned, other was yes. She at least stood for Britain and was proud of it.
Guys, I think that Dennis Prager’s political views might be affecting his curriculum.
Could u speak about the best French president who saved France during 60’s ? Charles de Gaulle ?
Unfortunately, he could not save France, he just interrupted her collapse. To achieve this, among others, he had to keep Britain out of the Common European Market and to impose a Common Agricultural Policy which opened the door wide for the bureaucratic (super-)statism of the EU and to Brexit. He was a brilliant leader though ant was a pity the U.S. Administration was unwilling to co-operate with him during WWII.
I am sorry but Charles de Gaulle is never a friend with western civilization and democracy. He hated and betrayed USA, Britain, NATO and Israel, helped middle east dictators in Arab-Israel Wars, befriended with communist China and Soviet Union.
@Robert Flask Are you kidding me? But maybe true. I don't think Soviet Union that era would help Charles de Gaulle to reconquer all former french oversea territories because USSR at that time were even more anti-colonialism than USA (Although USA in fact also contributed to decolonization in Cold War) even though he threatened to be allied with USSR. At least USSR since Khrushchev era wouldn't, but if there was Stalin era, that might happen in accordance to true history of partition in Poland in 1939.
@d s He is actually neither a communist nor capitalist and even not a libertarian, conservative or liberal at all. He's just an egoist which betrayed western civilization, democracy, gave assistance to USSR and other dictators and totalitarian regimes in Middle East and Asia to fulfill his own desire and narcissism.
@Valgoo Despite what others have said De Gaulle is a poster child for the flavour of conservatism espoused by this channel. The only reason to repudiate him is he was not pro-American. To the extent this was a personal choice (it hardly was), his reservations toward the U.S. and the Anglo-Saxon world had been triggered by the pathologically stupid manner in which he was treated by the U.S. government, which was was only exceeded by their simultaneous appeasement of Stalin and the Soviet Union (not to mention the U.S. propensity toward the fascist-leftists of the Pétain régime).
In both his military career and in his political life De Gaulle had to deal with a people who, two generations after the collapse of the Second Empire, still could not accept France was a second tier power. After WWII, in a country caught between the assertiveness of a booming U.S. and an expansionist ideologically-motivated USSR, he chose to pursue a third way. To some extent, this reflected his own convictions, but it was also necessary as that was what most of the non-communist French people wanted at the time.
He did his best, which was a lot, and had enormous successes: He stabilised the French political institutions and they stayed stable until the socialist Mitterrand deliberately upset them in the 1980s. He reversed the economic decline; eventually, France had more dollars than they could spend in the U.S. and hence, they could ask the Fed to convert them to gold. He made a relatively clean exit out of Algeria and of most of the French colonies. He established the Common Market and buried the hatchet with Germany, while keeping the UK, the U.S. Ally in Europe.
Unfortunately, his main strategic decision, which was in fact that of the French nation, was a losing proposition. There was no way for France to succeed in gaining stability and economic strength on the longer term by staying away from both superpowers (but mostly the U.S., which was overshadowing France). This is why, while he was a lot wiser and more skilful (in politics) than Napoleon, his attempts were doomed to eventual failure.
But I would love to see a French video about De Gaulle, the dedicated, brilliant conservative (in the U.S. meaning of the word).
As an Irish man. I despite this woman as she despised us.
There are no sources for these videos
I have a child named Maggie and one named Reagan. Greatest honor I could bestow on them.
She also killed 70k miners one of them was my father, he died of exposure and my entire family always knew that it was her fault because she shut down the mines and left us in poverty
@@sbaeneg4738 Had to be done at some point and she had the balls to do it
Non Compos Mentis I am aware that Tony Blair was that his biggest admirer but he did make things better just a bit for those who suffered under Thatcher and as for what I would have liked her to do well I’m left-wing so I would’ve preferred that she not get elected in the first place but given that she did I would’ve preferred that she didn’t create neoliberalism and privatise everything because it led to the massive inequality which we have today and I would’ve been fine with her being prime minister as long as she didn’t privatise as much as she did I think the main one which I oppose her privatising is water electricity and telecoms
@@sbaeneg4738 you know labour have closed more mines than the Tories since WW2?
@@sbaeneg4738 yeah with benefits. while importing low wage eastern europeans and outsourcing jobs to india and china what a trooper
how the hell did she kill 70k miners????. also why should the rest of us subsidise your community by keeping unprofitable pits open. need to look closer to home num leader scargill tried to bring down democraticly elected government and replace it with socialism. before i get slagged of im from a town whose colliery was closed.