Heseltine: A Life in the Political Jungle part 2
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- After Michael Heseltine announced his retirement from the House of Commons and to tie in with the publication of his memoirs 'Life in the Jungle' in September 2000, LWT made a two part documentary telling his story. Produced by Alexander Gardiner and presented by Jonathan Dimbleby (who were both involved in LWT's Sunday political talk programme).
Note that I had fairly poor TV reception at this point so the picture gets a bit choppy. We hope this doesn't spoil your enjoyment of the programme. Original transmission was 17 September 2000.
Thanks very much for uploading this I missed part 2 when it was broadcast in 2000 and it's the first time I've seen it!
I'm not a Conservative voter, but this is a very insightful documentary. I remember him resigning and my mum saying 'there goes another one'. However, I didn't understand why he went. Now I do. Good on him for sticking to his morals though especially working under such a difficult regime...And my gosh..Geoffrey Howe's speech! Very quietly savage but extremely powerful. Even Maggie had to admit it was the best one he'd done. He had clearly had enough too.
I really salute his courage and loyalty but even miss him not having been the Prime Minister
Thanks for uploading, watched Part 1 a couple months ago and wasn't able to find Part 2....So, thanks again.
Finally! I saw part 1 and i waoted for 2 for months, thanks david!
Fascinating documentary. Thanks for the upload!
Can't help liking Heseltine and his family - his wife and daughters, his son. Yes, they're clearly well-to-do, but they're not stuck-up. Not at all. They are open and down to earth. I'm working-class and not ashamed to be. But I can recognise something decent in Heseltine and his family. I think, and I could be wrong, it might be something to do with what is called 'old money', breeding that brings decency and a recognition that they have been privileged, and want to put something back. Lord (Peter) Carrington and others of the old Tory 'one nation' patrician party had the same qualities. Don't get me wrong, I've never voted Tory, but the Toryism represented by someone like Heseltine is something I can respect. Sorry to ramble. (I've done a spot of belated research, plus been corrected on here - Michael Heseltine mostly made his own money, so he not, uh, 'old money'. But he seems to characterise most the best qualities of 'old money'.
Heseltine was the classic 'new money' Tory - Alan Clark famously gibed at him that he had "bought all his own furniture" in a very telling remark.
@@DBIVUK yes, David - I did a bit of late research after I wrote my lil eulogy. Seems Michael mostly made his own money. He did SEEM like 'old money'. Oh well, that will teach me. Still think he's a good guy though. Was impressed with his family. Thanks for your comment anyway.
Brilliant documentary- thank you David for uploading it!!!
Thank you for your uploads. Excellent programs.
Had Heseltine not resigned in 1986, he would have become PM, you only become PM by staying inside not by fighting from the outside.
As Rishi found out.
Well worth the wait.
The old dears can't get enough of him
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for uploading! I greatly appreciate it! Heseltine is such a interesting figure. I love your channel and videos!
Truly a man of integrity, a man of intellect, and a powerhouse.
Excellent really enjoyed
Heseltine is a throughly decent man.
If only politicians today are like him.
We live in a post truth world where decency and manners mean for nothing.
I find rather perplexing people praising Heseltine as some kind of "nice Tory", despite the Liverpool regeneration(which I am a bit skeptical of as it seems to not be balanced in its economy) look at one of the first things he did when he was President of the Board of Trade and Industry, the mine closures in Nottinghamshire(which had supported the Tory government during the miners' strike in the 1980s).
Maggie the puppet master. although already ousted by her own party - she still had the final say by making sure her man Major got in to succeed her and kept that Heseltine OUT...!!! The Iron Lady to the very end :-))
Michael Heseltine is a rarity for me, the possibly one Tory MP I would consider voting for, and one that I would have liked to have become Prime Minister.
ITS HESEL-TIME BABY WOOO!!!
The Uk changed forever when Blair's New labour came in. So hopeful at the start, but what a mess he made.
24:40 serves you bloody right you scabs! Come on, off you plop to those other industries you can apparently rely on (unlike folk in south yorkshire and wales who were left decimated and still do suffer major social affects of the pit closures).
40:15 "We were the anchors" well, almost right
A spiv, a failed businessman, a man with no background other than politics, a charlatan and a disloyal traitor to Thatcher and the country, and a rema!in!ac tra!t0r
Heseltine should read up on Roman history, if he did he would find that Brutus never got to be Emperor after murdering Caesar.
Julius Caesar wasn't Emperor and Brutus never wanted to be. It's a completely frivolous analogy.
@@clevercypriot1629 Your being deliberately fastidious. A layman thinks of Caesar as an Emperor although historians know his official title he gave himself was 'Dictator for Life'. Brutus lead a rebellion army along with Cassius, has he won at the Battle of Philippi he would have had likely had consulship for a long as he needed to clean up the rest of Brutus's supporters.
@@Freddie1980 No, Brutus was a political idiot. If he wanted extralegal authority for himself he would have sought it after the assassination instead of dragging his feet. Even if I am being overly fastidious, the idea that Heseltine is somehow a traitor is completely ridiculous. He disagreed with the politics of the prime minister of the day and sought to challenge her legally. This is no treason. The idea that someone is bound to never challenge a democratic political leader because they served under them is completely ridiculous, whether buttressed by poorly thought out classical analogies or not.
I'm no Tory of any kind, but Hestletine was an exceptional politician and compared to the rest of Maggie's senior boys, would've been a much more palatable PM
Rupert looks just like his grandfather.
20:30 poem he spoke
It's been easy to forget with all his recent ramblings/rantings about brexit, just what an exceptional politician he was.
an icon
😂 He achieved virtually nothing.
Wish tarzan could save em now
The tragedy was John Major
Getting Brexit done is the best revenge Thatcher can have on Heseltine and Major
I rather like both but yes indeed.
The conservative party would be much better and europeist with Heseltine running the Tories. It's a pity.
24:20 31 pits
The best Prime Minister we never had
Ken Clarke
Ed Miliband
Tony Benn (prepares to get pelted with right wing agendas haha)