The Thatcher Years 1 of 4

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  • @LibertyG39
    @LibertyG39 Před 11 lety +68

    ''The essence of a good prime minister is not whether they are popular but whether they are respected because they did things that were right for Britain,which raise the standard and standing of Britain''.
    That is the essence of politics and the essence of true leadership.Great upload!

  • @galleryteneuesartnouveau9353

    11 years in public service no one else can break that record when she defended the integrity of the British currency & for many years the economy of EU countries like Spain & Greece crashes the time her ideals,political convictions , principles & economic policies has been reflected & realized..I wish there's another like her to lead a great nation & the world nowadays

    • @HikoBenny4ever
      @HikoBenny4ever Před rokem +1

      Some are trying to compare Liz Truss with her, Truss is not even a quarter of Thatcher.

    • @QHarefield
      @QHarefield Před 7 měsíci

      @@HikoBenny4ever You are probably quite right, but I do wish she had been given the chance to show what she could do, instead of being yanked off the stage like a pantomime dame with a crook around her neck.

    • @pd1323
      @pd1323 Před 7 měsíci

      She just wanted to sell everything. Conservatives have no imagination past feathering their donor's nests. @@QHarefield

    • @SkiiDreamr420
      @SkiiDreamr420 Před měsícem

      Maggie's Millionaires

  • @violinstar5948
    @violinstar5948 Před 3 lety +35

    “It was treachery with a smile on its face, perhaps that was the worst thing of all” (Thatcher). The wet ‘Men’ let her down, the UK down and us all down.

    • @petersutton523
      @petersutton523 Před 3 lety +2

      "It was treachery etc etc".
      Probably the most childish thing she ever said (and that is a crowded field.)
      Thatcher engineered the downfall of her predecessor while she was a member of his government. "Treachery" or not?
      I don't say she was an innately bad human being but she was arrogant, she refused to listen to anyone about anything, she was politically intelligent but in the realities of life she displayed an unequaled naivety and her lack of self awareness was simply stunning.
      She clawed her way to the top using ruthless tactics, whined like a child when she was "deposed" and was, in general, a complete disaster for Britain.
      All in all an object lesson in how not to do things.

    • @cnrkrky7316
      @cnrkrky7316 Před 3 lety +3

      @@petersutton523 Her predecessor had lost the general election and the Tories we in opposition when Thatcher won the leadership election. Thatcher was removed whilst she was PM - a democratically elected PM, so its hardly a fair comparable.

    • @bruh949
      @bruh949 Před 3 lety +3

      @@cnrkrky7316 no to mention Heath lost the election to the very man who broke the country, Heath made it worse, Wilson came back to fuck it again and Callaghan finished it of to be horrific and Thatcher had to undo their mess

    • @splinterbyrd
      @splinterbyrd Před 3 lety +1

      @@bruh949 Harold Wilson was prime minister for twice as long as Heath, and apart from the Open University (yes, a truly great institution) what is Wilson's legacy? Ziltch.
      Ted Heath in his 4 year premiership took us into the EU, something we're still arguing about today.
      Harold who?

  • @poodtang2104
    @poodtang2104 Před 4 lety +55

    Thatcher had more balls than most of the men around her.

    • @chrisnation1432
      @chrisnation1432 Před 4 lety +3

      Pretty much all of them. They were soft Roman patricians content to watch Rome burn as long as the tea continued to arrive at their country villas.

    • @poodtang2104
      @poodtang2104 Před 4 lety +3

      @@chrisnation1432 Probably.

    • @chrisboyslimuk5186
      @chrisboyslimuk5186 Před rokem

      Yes that's true, I'm a man and she was certainly had plenty of balls. God knows what state Britain would have been in had she not had the balls to change things. It was treacherous how they got rid of her, but I do think she did become dictatorial in the end. In politics once a prime minister is not good for the country they are removed unfortunately but that is politics. We need a strong leader today. I don't know how Rishi Sunak will turn out, I don't know him well enough but as chancellor he did allow the government to spend trillions on getting a jab sorted for Covid, and helped people maintain some sort of income as well as doing a lot to stop businesses from failing. I will watch him with interest.

    • @user-ls8ks7kv8c
      @user-ls8ks7kv8c Před 4 měsíci

      Good times make weak men and weak men make bad times

  • @TangoSket
    @TangoSket Před 4 lety +36

    A woman of this calibre seldom comes around.

  • @tapasghosh5153
    @tapasghosh5153 Před 3 lety +7

    Oh!God!This iron lady of indomitable will was your wonderful creation!My mother-land India greatly needs a like of her ,at this moment, to stand by the suffering humanity here!

  • @terenceoneill713
    @terenceoneill713 Před 3 lety +17

    We need her today more than ever.

  • @bazboy24
    @bazboy24 Před 3 lety +8

    Thank God for this woman

  • @123brownjames
    @123brownjames Před 11 lety +19

    "brothers, I believe in consensus!" PRICELESS! xD

  • @peretzo
    @peretzo Před 6 lety +21

    This is fascinating thanks for posting this

  • @Wildcape100
    @Wildcape100 Před 11 lety +17

    Thank you very much for the upload.

  • @yingyang1008
    @yingyang1008 Před rokem +3

    What ever you think of her ideas, I can't think of a more fascinating leader in modern history
    She came from nowhere and was possessed by some kind of other wordly energy
    Almost every interview she gives is rammed full of memorable quotes, and she's never phoning it in, she was a force of nature

  • @MrSpasticdancer
    @MrSpasticdancer Před 4 lety +16

    the establishment hated her, so i like her

  • @PR19735
    @PR19735 Před 4 lety +13

    She did it her way.

  • @machscga6238
    @machscga6238 Před rokem +3

    🇬🇧 Thatcher Forever 🇬🇧

  • @sutherlandA1
    @sutherlandA1 Před 5 lety +29

    Although I found her heavy handed policies of deindustrialization and privatization horrendous, I admire her reforms and drastic changes that did leave britain in much better condition than what she inherited. I believe in a welfare state but what it had become was a socialist bureaucratic inefficient mess that needed fixing

    • @JohnPG1706.
      @JohnPG1706. Před 2 lety +1

      She had to do what she had to do, never a fan of hers i couldnt be im a scouser but she was the right PM for those early years 79-83

  • @MrWelsh200
    @MrWelsh200 Před 3 lety +6

    love you Maggie

  • @alexbolton27
    @alexbolton27 Před 10 lety +10

    'She got them to bend to her will in a way with a skill that was wholly female and totally feminine' - Cut to a picture of Mrs Thatcher looking particularly terrifying.

  • @babygirl10711978
    @babygirl10711978 Před 10 lety +22

    I can't believe I somehow missed this one when you posted it. You can tell that she's very bitter when she talks about things. I also noticed that she's definitely got the lip curl.

    • @JimChap
      @JimChap Před 5 lety +11

      Well she did win 3 elections only to be thrown out by her own team members. It was really a pretty sad moment for representative democracy considering that Thatcher's mandate came directly from the "people" - which is precisely who Thatcher served. There's no doubt that such treatment deeply upset Thatcher for many years after, and being a proud, strong, fighter she would continue to go on defending herself and her record. 11 years of controlling the most elite of British men was for a lone woman - stunningly incredible - especially when you consider how hard it is to stay in that role because u can be toppled literally at any time at all. Unlike the guaranteed 4 years of the US leader.

  • @manuelmartinfernandez2755

    como argentino clase 1962 debo agradecer a margarita thatcher por saber dar sus batallas con honor. invito a todo ciudadano britanico a visitar dean funes, cordoba, argentina.

  • @mks8172
    @mks8172 Před 3 lety +16

    She would never raise national debt to such levels oh by god we need someone like that now.

    • @mks8172
      @mks8172 Před 3 lety

      @Luca Goodoer exactly

  • @liamb8644
    @liamb8644 Před 6 lety +12

    She is simply amazing I love her so much

  •  Před 6 lety +6

    16:21 for a damn good summary of the situation when Maggie took over and where we heading back to today.

  • @stevebaker6149
    @stevebaker6149 Před 2 lety +2

    The arrogance of Prior, Pimm (Pymm?) and the ludicrous Gilmour is staggering. If it was not for her, they would be completely forgotten today. And deservedly so.

  • @immortalfrom90
    @immortalfrom90 Před 3 lety +8

    God bless Maggie

  • @JimChap
    @JimChap Před 5 lety +4

    11:50.....Bitter much? I'm not so sure it's a great thing to round up and interview a bunch of old disgruntled former Tory cabinet ministers under Thatcher's early years as PM, as they were most likely given the boot out of cabinet by Thatcher herself. The resentment and humiliation of that will not disappear even over decades I should think. And it seems to manifest itself in some of the gentleman's comments here. Though to be fair it is titled "Thatcher's early years" and these people should be consulted. Whether their comments are objective is the question I guess.

  • @tomcross3000
    @tomcross3000 Před 2 lety +1

    Love that in retrospect most tories are left leaning socially, but never thatcher.

  • @babygirl10711978
    @babygirl10711978 Před 10 lety +10

    I agree with her when she said women had to make the tough decisions. Men don't think we have it as tough as them, but in fact we have it tougher. We have to work harder to prove ourselves.

  •  Před 6 lety +5

    28:1' Helmut Schmidt complaining that he wasn't acceptable to be talked to so forcefully and that it alienated people. By my reckoning he'd have been around 20 old when WWII started - not used to being spoken to forcefully? Really? By a woman maybe...

  • @andresvera5145
    @andresvera5145 Před 4 lety +4

    Hello, could you upload chapters 3 and 4 again? Thanks... it´s quite interesting.

  • @nudisco300
    @nudisco300 Před 5 lety +11

    The wishy washiness of the wets thoroughly disgust and appall me. The fact they were (or are even still today) more worried about upsetting or offending politicians in other countries rather than sticking up for our own interests says everything about Project Fear today. It's nice to see all these wets with tenures lasting until 81/82 and then the arrival of Tebbit and the real Thatcherites. I can imagine in the early 80's the civil service was still stuck in the 1960s with their pathetic idea of managed decline.

  • @babygirl10711978
    @babygirl10711978 Před 10 lety +4

    I love the word sacked. LOL

  • @blueguitarblue
    @blueguitarblue Před 11 lety +5

    She'd make a regal Queen.

  • @TheKonga88
    @TheKonga88 Před 4 lety +5

    Margaret Thatcher, the best president America never had. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🏃🏃🏃🏃🐭🐹😍

  • @user-dj5kv4zl4h
    @user-dj5kv4zl4h Před 5 měsíci

    She had completely lost her marbles by the end of her premiership. Fascinating case of what could be called "Downing Street syndrome"

  • @peterbradshaw8018
    @peterbradshaw8018 Před 9 lety +31

    Best leader in the UK since Churchill.

    • @MrFreud98
      @MrFreud98 Před 9 lety +3

      Peter Bradshaw No, she was a monster who destroyed millions of lives.

    • @peterbradshaw8018
      @peterbradshaw8018 Před 9 lety +7

      I think you need to research the period before and during her premiership dispassionately.

    • @peterbradshaw8018
      @peterbradshaw8018 Před 9 lety +6

      Go do GCE Accounting and stop making a fool of yourself.

    • @nickmagee-brown739
      @nickmagee-brown739 Před 2 lety

      Agreed, we need a leader like her right now. We need a return to neoliberalism and self responsibility. If I was prime minister, the welfare state would be cut to it's bare bones and I would scrap the minimum wage.

  • @rosemaryfleischer1577
    @rosemaryfleischer1577 Před 4 lety +2

    13.21 Tapping her pencil! What a rotter!

  • @scipioafricanus2285
    @scipioafricanus2285 Před 8 lety +12

    maggie4ever

  • @danielkarlsson156
    @danielkarlsson156 Před 5 lety +4

    Very very odd documentary. Thatcher is described as right wing politician and Heath as left wing, although the direct opposite is closer to the truth. Heath belonged to the old Tory establishment of landed gentry that despised everyone that tried to climb the social ladder where Thatcher was a lower class rebel that tried to give other that came from the same background the opportunity to climb themselves. If giving working class people the means to liberate themselves isn't left wing I don't know what is.

    • @WilliamSmith-mx6ze
      @WilliamSmith-mx6ze Před 4 lety +1

      Ted Heath very clearly did not belong to any landed establishment. He was the son of a builder who went to grammar school.

    • @paulthesquid3595
      @paulthesquid3595 Před 3 lety

      Utter drivel there,Ted Heath was the son of a Cabinet Maker, just do some reseach on the subject.

    • @paulthesquid3595
      @paulthesquid3595 Před 3 lety

      @@WilliamSmith-mx6ze True fact there Thatcherites are rewriting history here.

  • @barbieblacksheep8440
    @barbieblacksheep8440 Před 3 lety +1

    May The 4th Be With Her !!!

  • @mariecarmenmailvaganam7316

    Who Produced this document?

  • @tonylove4800
    @tonylove4800 Před rokem +1

    The Europe thing is weird. The hard-right Thatcher was pretty anti but the truly leftist Tony Benn was positively apoplectic when it came to the EEC.

  • @craigjb8740
    @craigjb8740 Před 6 lety +2

    where is episode 3?

  • @dommidavros2211
    @dommidavros2211 Před 4 lety +3

    People slate her but try to compare her to the crap we have today!

  • @shanechristopher5395
    @shanechristopher5395 Před 6 lety +10

    All of Europe would be speaking German without the British and Americans. It appears the people of the EU need a history lesson and learn to show some gratitude.

    • @mks8172
      @mks8172 Před 3 lety

      In terms of history I would look up division 303 battle of britain then how they were treated? Though I do love this country just the politicians are ...

    • @jamesoneill6712
      @jamesoneill6712 Před 2 lety

      The Russians really saved Europe from the Nazis, not saying Britain didn’t do a lot and the Yanks eventually getting involved and taking the glory.

    • @lesviesblanchescomptent
      @lesviesblanchescomptent Před rokem

      Yeah, instead Europe is being islamified and blackwashed by the jews instead, whoopee we're so much butter off aren't we 🙄

  • @naimrashid9218
    @naimrashid9218 Před 10 lety +22

    Very interesting to listen to the sober, sane views of the old, still reasonable Tories - the 'wets', as Mrs Thatcher called them - before the Conservatives became an extremist neoliberal party.

    • @dalimilmatousek4074
      @dalimilmatousek4074 Před 6 lety

      But clearly you can see the differences between UK and for example Pakistan.

  • @SkiiDreamr420
    @SkiiDreamr420 Před měsícem

    0:10 😂

  • @Ingens_Scherz
    @Ingens_Scherz Před 6 lety +5

    She was amazing. But, even considering the kind of utter wankers in the Tory party she was having to castrate at that time, I find it difficult when I try to think fondly of her. I was a boy of no more than nine when she began, but if I was the age then that I am now, and had her ear for a moment, I would tell her that most of us in this country aren't wankers like them and need a little understanding and a lot of love. Spare a thought for the dispossessed in this inevitable economic sea change. They are good, Christian family people, just like you.
    But I think that because of her battles with the utter wankers, the pachyderm political Thatcher instead of the Franciscan believer in us as a nation became, quite quickly, the one we all expected to encounter and learnt, as her loyal, supportive electorate, to work around instead of with. She became too terrifying to love - which has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with perceived power. That, in the end, degrades good will which is fatal for a risk-taking politician no matter how brilliant SHE (or he) is.
    I think it's why all apart from the moronic left at the time - most people in other words - (and a time which I remember very well because I was in my first term at university when she was destroyed by her own party) - just shrugged when it happened and she was driven out. "Never mind, who's next?" we all thought - for a brief moment in 1990. "John Major? You have to be kidding! He's a twat!"
    Yet that was, in the most important way, her greatest triumph. Her battles, with which at first the people utterly identified one way or another, were long over. She'd won them all. In me and millions like me, she'd created a generation of Britons who had no idea what the 1970s were. She'd created a generation of young people who liked to sell stuff. But, in doing so, at the end she had became a part of history instead of one of its greatest makers. I feel a bit shitty about that. Maybe it's because in spite of my best efforts I'm basically a Thatcher baby (as we all are) - and feel totally ungrateful for all that she did for me while I was naked and incapable of taking care of myself. I never had a chance to thank her.
    And if you think Owen Jones and his mob are any different from me (the loudmouth, low great Trot is about ten years younger than me so he's basically a second generation Thatcher baby), ask that hypocritical prick how much he charges for an appearance on a TV show. And then ask him why. If he doesn't say "because my labour and time are private and I know what they are worth and how to demand fair compensation thanks to Margaret Thatcher", then he is a pig-ignorant, loud-mouthed little scrote, or a fucking liar. But you already knew that :)

  • @thie4987
    @thie4987 Před 5 lety +2

    The first 18 seconds was ear rape
    I am half death now

  • @splinterbyrd
    @splinterbyrd Před 3 lety

    She was betrayed, like all great men.

  • @blueguitarblue
    @blueguitarblue Před 11 lety

    Prettiful!

  • @davidbusby2550
    @davidbusby2550 Před 4 lety +2

    16:20

  • @Derrako
    @Derrako Před 9 lety +3

    'may we bring harmony where there is discord' my God-remember the ugly violence that went on for _far_ too long during the miners strike? and what about the poll tax riots? The whole of central London in a huge uproar and police charging about on horseback? _harmony?_ and hell isn't a little hot?

    • @paulthesquid3595
      @paulthesquid3595 Před 3 lety

      TRUE

    • @billgreen8966
      @billgreen8966 Před 3 lety +3

      @@paulthesquid3595 but irrelevant. She had no choice the unions had (literally) bankrupted Britain.

    • @paulthesquid3595
      @paulthesquid3595 Před 3 lety +1

      @@billgreen8966 No choice i don't think so in all honesty, the totally unfair unworkable POLL TAX the last nail in her box was it not just. Trade unions did go over the top i don't dispute that one.

  • @scarfhero2073
    @scarfhero2073 Před 8 měsíci +2

    mwaaaaa

    • @MaxBarnes-hw4oi
      @MaxBarnes-hw4oi Před 8 měsíci

      What a guy

    • @scarfhero2073
      @scarfhero2073 Před 8 měsíci

      trully@@MaxBarnes-hw4oi

    • @rRAHGGGg
      @rRAHGGGg Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@scarfhero2073so true

    • @MaxBarnes-hw4oi
      @MaxBarnes-hw4oi Před 8 měsíci +1

      Wait... JOJO!? Thatcher was a JOJO fan confirmed

    • @rRAHGGGg
      @rRAHGGGg Před 8 měsíci

      live laugh love thatcher ig 🥰🥰😘😘😍🥰🤭🤭(hurt to type this🫡🫡)

  • @reneesantiago6496
    @reneesantiago6496 Před 2 lety +1

    This is just a smear video of Thatcher!!

  • @johannesnicolaas
    @johannesnicolaas Před 3 lety +1

    Classic case of enormous hybris.

  • @1ramises
    @1ramises Před 2 lety

    Karma surely after all the crap she put plp through !!

  • @thatcheritescot
    @thatcheritescot  Před 11 lety +3

    thats a tough one. from britain it is very few. gladstone, churchill, pitt the younger maybe.
    i like and admire many politicians but very few have actually come to power.
    thatcher has a huge advantage over the others as she was the first real television pm and so its much easier to understand her because i can see and hear her. also the further back in time the less i have in common with any politics.
    i very much hope nigel farage becomes pm.

    • @therocketcrab9325
      @therocketcrab9325 Před 4 lety +1

      thatcheritescot
      I know you wrote this 6 years ago but I want to tell you I love your videos. Thanks a lot for the hard work, you are a wonderful person.

  • @user-eh3ou7oq4w
    @user-eh3ou7oq4w Před rokem

    Why is She never hailed as a Female role Model?

    • @nathanjustus6659
      @nathanjustus6659 Před 7 měsíci

      Because feminists can only like left wingers always whining that “it’s not my fault, it’s the evil right wingers.”

  • @mikewatte4478
    @mikewatte4478 Před 4 lety +3

    Thatcher was going nowhere like he predecessors until she got lucky when the uk started getting rich from oil and gas in the north sea and then the boom in the city

    • @therocketcrab9325
      @therocketcrab9325 Před 4 lety +4

      mike watters
      You are the one who is lucky she was prime minister. Poor clueless fool.

    • @paulthesquid3595
      @paulthesquid3595 Před 3 lety

      Spot on more like the truth unlike some of the comments & delusions here i think in all honesty.

    • @paulthesquid3595
      @paulthesquid3595 Před 3 lety

      @@therocketcrab9325 A JOKE surly.

    • @therocketcrab9325
      @therocketcrab9325 Před 3 lety +2

      Paul baker Baker
      Not at all. The initial comment is completely anti fact and idiotic. She was a hero.

    • @paulthesquid3595
      @paulthesquid3595 Před 3 lety

      @@therocketcrab9325 Hero to 'who' not me and millions more i think in all honesty there, definition of a hero?

  • @eduardoschacht7704
    @eduardoschacht7704 Před 3 lety

    Y

  • @adamsmith275
    @adamsmith275 Před 6 lety

    17:00 ..."he (Jeffrey Howe) doubled the... and raised interest rates"... Can someone help me understand?...

    • @koko20467
      @koko20467 Před 5 lety

      I think the Conservative gov generally has reduced tax rate. The tax rate for the most wealthy was cut from 83 percent of earnings to 60 percent, and the common rate was reduced from 33 percent to 30 percent.
      On the other hand, the gov has to raise VAT, reduce publishedc spending etc.

    • @adamsmith275
      @adamsmith275 Před 5 lety +1

      ...my question is: ...What did HE... (Jeffrey Howe) DOUBLE?...

    • @nudisco300
      @nudisco300 Před 5 lety

      @@adamsmith275 VAT. I think it was 7% or something and it got raised to 15% but one has to remember that income tax rates fell dramatically afterwards.

  • @NorthIndochina
    @NorthIndochina Před 11 lety

    Thatcheritescot,
    What do you think about today's french economic and politic behaviour?
    And the socialist form in france that is very uncomon and that is destroing all industry and the state interventionism?

  • @dadadadadada4891
    @dadadadadada4891 Před 5 lety

    "Suspicion of foreigners" well that's one way to put it

  • @12from121
    @12from121 Před 9 lety +6

    What a nightmare she was

  • @studiobencivengamarcusbenc5272

    I hate women in politics but Margaret was fantastic - the shopkeepers daughter did good

    • @billgreen8966
      @billgreen8966 Před 3 lety +1

      Well said. She should have got a medal for saving Britain.

    • @paulthesquid3595
      @paulthesquid3595 Před 3 lety

      @@billgreen8966 Utter delusion there.

    • @billgreen8966
      @billgreen8966 Před 3 lety +2

      @@paulthesquid3595 I lived through the early part of 70s Britain. What the unions did to Britain was absolutely disgusting. Without Thatcher Britain was doomed, broke, bankrupt.

    • @sarahnewton2550
      @sarahnewton2550 Před rokem

      i hate men in politics

  • @annecopley8002
    @annecopley8002 Před 4 lety

    The architect of the UK's current predicament

    • @paulthesquid3595
      @paulthesquid3595 Před 3 lety

      Generally true i think in all honesty there.

    • @stevebaker6149
      @stevebaker6149 Před 2 lety

      @@paulthesquid3595 Could you try that again in English, please?

  • @Bucketheadhead
    @Bucketheadhead Před 9 lety +10

    My word this woman was delusional. Admirably stoic, but delusional nonetheless.

    • @Anon54387
      @Anon54387 Před 9 lety +4

      Delusional how?

    • @Jacobus180670
      @Jacobus180670 Před 9 lety

      what angers me is that she whole-heartedly encouraged greater disposability in the workplace then complained about treachery.....TOUGH! What she was was a brilliant performer who could talk anyone down with incredible cleverness, determination and calmness. This series though shows her for her true horribly delusional colours. Anyone who is ultimately myopic as she was is delusional and that's why she was cast out.

    • @Speegs23
      @Speegs23 Před 9 lety +4

      She was terse and sometimes boorish, but principally correct about many things. Her demeanor was likely much to do with the fact a woman in politics has to compensate for any perceived feminine weakness by being stern and firm, and ultimately unfeminine.

    • @Bucketheadhead
      @Bucketheadhead Před 9 lety +3

      Speegs23 Principally wrong about a great many things more. Constantly bleating about government spending yet reducing it by clever book keeping and in the end not reducing it at all but only changing where it was spent, mainly subsidising big business at the expense of the poor.

    • @Speegs23
      @Speegs23 Před 9 lety +1

      So in other words a politician. You described Tony Blair as much as her.

  • @1ramises
    @1ramises Před 2 lety

    What a disaster she was !!!