There is a story that a local pub in her Blackburn constituency was named in her honour, The Barbara Castle, Apparently the locals called it The Red Cow.
Barbara Castle was a star. She would have made an excellent prime minister. She was about a more egalitarian society. She wanted a fairer world and more equal society.
What a sad analogy . Barbara Castle was head and shoulders above Thatcher in her hope for the future , and in what she actually achieved , Rather than Thatcher whom dismantled , destroyed, divided & humiliated. We're still suffering from the Thatcher mythology today , with the discharge of the lightweights and their discredited economics and fostering ever widening wealth health gaps and escalating poverty
What a towering political figure, and showed was dross the film The Iron lady. If her "In place of strife " had come to fruition , then history would be very different. Her achievements for women was huge, and set back decades by Thatcher. This documentary is patronising and undervalues women in general
'She is much missed in today’s politics' - No, she isn't/ She did her best to destroy shopfloor power in 'In Place of Strife', the weaken the trade union rank and file by placing all power in the hands of union bosses. She was hated by the left, rightly.
Mate, can’t you see that Unions WERE THE problem? They were like this separate entity in political life, trying to get all they could. Got so mad they were asking for more than the value of what they were producing! Just been listening to Brian Walden say Jim Callaghan’s big mistake was not challenging the power of them- if a bloke like him couldn’t control the Unions, then frankly the Unions deserved Thatcher after stabbing him (their biggest ally), in the back
@@oliverdesvaux The unions fought for the working man when no-one else cared because the unions are the working man ! The conditions , pay , and guaranteed working week was only because of the might of the unions . Sick pay and holiday pay were established through the pressure from the unions . The very reason many working class now live in relative luxury compared to our fore fathers is because of workers unity.
I’m not disputing any of this. The fact remains that a few idiots at the top of the pile ruined it for the rest of us! The TUC of all people, fought tooth and nail to oppose Jim Callaghan’s inflation controls during the winter of discontent and it all became about how much everyone could screw out of the govt. If Lorry drivers wanted a 20% rise, then the car workers, council all wanted that and more too! Everyone was out for what they could get and this was all done with a trade union-friendly leader in Callaghan at the helm. It was a cynical and deliberate way to undermine him. The so called “leaders” of these Unions let Thatcher in through the back-door and weakened themselves irretrievably in the process
There is a story that a local pub in her Blackburn constituency was named in her honour, The Barbara Castle, Apparently the locals called it The Red Cow.
Barbara Castle was a star. She would have made an excellent prime minister. She was about a more egalitarian society. She wanted a fairer world and more equal society.
the iron lady of the left i may be conservative, but i still admire her
What a sad analogy . Barbara Castle was head and shoulders above Thatcher in her hope for the future , and in what she actually achieved , Rather than Thatcher whom dismantled , destroyed, divided & humiliated. We're still suffering from the Thatcher mythology today , with the discharge of the lightweights and their discredited economics and fostering ever widening wealth health gaps and escalating poverty
In Place of Strife?
What was the song very briefly at the start
Bandiera Rossa
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What a towering political figure, and showed was dross the film The Iron lady. If her "In place of strife " had come to fruition , then history would be very different. Her achievements for women was huge, and set back decades by Thatcher. This documentary is patronising and undervalues women in general
She is much missed in today’s politics
'She is much missed in today’s politics' - No, she isn't/ She did her best to destroy shopfloor power in 'In Place of Strife', the weaken the trade union rank and file by placing all power in the hands of union bosses. She was hated by the left, rightly.
Mate, can’t you see that Unions WERE THE problem? They were like this separate entity in political life, trying to get all they could. Got so mad they were asking for more than the value of what they were producing! Just been listening to Brian Walden say Jim Callaghan’s big mistake was not challenging the power of them- if a bloke like him couldn’t control the Unions, then frankly the Unions deserved Thatcher after stabbing him (their biggest ally), in the back
@@oliverdesvaux The unions fought for the working man when no-one else cared because the unions are the working man ! The conditions , pay , and guaranteed working week was only because of the might of the unions . Sick pay and holiday pay were established through the pressure from the unions . The very reason many working class now live in relative luxury compared to our fore fathers is because of workers unity.
I’m not disputing any of this. The fact remains that a few idiots at the top of the pile ruined it for the rest of us!
The TUC of all people, fought tooth and nail to oppose Jim Callaghan’s inflation controls during the winter of discontent and it all became about how much everyone could screw out of the govt. If Lorry drivers wanted a 20% rise, then the car workers, council all wanted that and more too! Everyone was out for what they could get and this was all done with a trade union-friendly leader in Callaghan at the helm. It was a cynical and deliberate way to undermine him. The so called “leaders” of these Unions let Thatcher in through the back-door and weakened themselves irretrievably in the process
The Nurses wouldn't think so!
My socialist heroine
Thought Stalin had it right. Nuff said
She should have succeeded Wilson instead of Callaghan.
Was she a soviet agent like Michael Foot?
And you have the gaull to call yourself a doctor?? Get out of here
@@robbdavies7749 well I am a dr. There were a lot of soviet agents. Harold Wilson??
@@Dybbouk you need a doctor more like
@@robbdavies7749 So there were no communist agents (burgess, Philby, maclean, pierre cot, jean moulin???)
@@robbdavies7749 a vet would be more appropriate for a jack ass.
she was an Admirer of Joesph Stalin all her life
Source ????
@@briandelaney9710 source are you afull shilling go and do your research
The always self- satisfied Cokerell