What a mess we have today. Thing is - no matter what you think of MT, she was not a career politician, and nor were her colleagues on both sides of the house. Back then, they stood because they STOOD FOR SOMETHING.
Margaret Thatcher was also a scientist b4 she got into politics and was very successful in both, and what's more she accomplished all this without quotas like we experience today preferencing ppl based on genders for various occupations.
@Dan.Dawson She was definitely a career politician - her careers as a chemist then barrister were just a means to that end. From an early age, she was obsessed with becoming a politician and it is likely she had deep-seated narcissistic traits, possibly inherited from her father who, if the rumours are to be believed, was a most unsavoury character. As for having political convictions, she did and didn't. On the surface she did, but in reality she did not really practice what she preached in most areas. She was responsible for the Single Market (despite claiming to be against European integration), British membership of the ERM (despite claiming to be against moves to a single currency), the vast expansion of the state (despite claiming to want to "roll back the state", she actually increased the role of the state in people's everyday lives), the National Curriculum (what happened to keeping the state out of people's lives?), she softened the criminal justice system, and she initiated backdoor negotiations with the Provisional IRA (despite her hard public stance against them). On the other hand, she did develop a meglomaniacal conviction in the liberal economic ideas of Hayek and she applied them as a catholic dogma, blind to the consequences of such policies on a complex society. Her hard industrial policies loosened and destroyed social cohesion in parts of the country - especially in the north of England. That is not to say her views lacked merit. I somewhat agree that, on paper, British coal mining and other areas of manufacturing, and the various state industries, needed to become more efficient from a business point of view. The coal industry, for instance, was ridiculously overmanned and outdated compared to other countries and modernisation was needed, but her execution of the necessary remedies was guided too much by academic textbook philosophy and too little by a genuine feeling for people and an understanding of the society in which business and industry are situated. Her narrow, ultra-rationalist approach to industry had a revolutionary, Year Zero, almost Maoist flavour to it, partly motivated by a desire to destroy the political base of the Left. She could have achieved the same thing differently. She showed a tin ear to the wider economic and social consequences and ramifications of shutting down pits and breaking British industry. This was people's lives, not just numbers on a spreadsheet, and ironically for a trained scientist who claimed to be adroit in economics, she failed to appreciate the scientific nature of an economy, in that it is akin to an ecological system in which the different parts are co-dependent and set within a complex society. She saw things in terms of the morality of self-help, perhaps influenced by her Methodist upbringing. When commenting on the miners in her political memoirs, she stated (words to the effect): "We were not there to provide outdoor relief for miners". She was a crank. She was a preachy, sanctimonious, supercilious clothead. At bottom, I think she lacked sensitivity and understanding for people whose experiences were different to hers, and paradoxically (and admittedly, contrary to her intentions), the state expanded under her premiership to address the needs of all the unemployed she created - and that legacy is still with us today, in the lingering multi-generational social problems, with swathes of people who have never worked in full-time employment because there is no industry and, with so much immigration (labour hyper-competition), employers can be ultra-choosy for what jobs there are. Her approach was Philistinist and uneducated, and I roll my eyes when I hear similar appeals today. This is why, while she certainly had her good points and was not all bad, I don't believe she deserves the uncritical admiration she receives. At the same time, I don't believe she deserved all the hate she received, nor should her memory be tainted by such hate today. We must bear in mind that she was a creature of her time: she spent most of her political career as essentially a social democrat, in common with most post-war British politicians. That changed with Heath, who was the first real proto-thatcherite - a fact now widely forgotten. He had to reverse his free market policies in the face of industrial opposition, which explains much of what Thatcher later did. Had Labour won the 1979 general election, they would have implemented a scaled-down type of "thatcherism" and closed pits and reduced manufacturing, and would have had to confront militant trade unionists, and so on. The underlying forces were for this. It was wrong, but whether it was by scheme and design or just incompetence, I cannot say. It wasn't all down to one person, that's for sure. She was the servant of other masters. We call it "Thatcherism" rather than, say, "Heathism" or "Callaghanism" or something else, because she happened to be the person in charge at the time, not because these views and beliefs were specific or unique to her.
Because of the bloody woke infested snowflakes. I mean, my honourable friends have some great ideas but lack spunk and leadership because they can’t say what they want for fear of offending the doorstop that holds the house of common’s door open. I’m LGBT and I do not get offended by a strong leader as long as the honourable leader has a good heart and the best interest of their constituents.
@@jakemcgovern8111 Yea, the woke snowlfakes elected Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, and Tony Blair. lmfao haven't got a clue what you're on about
What has anal - penile intercourse got to do with real education in schools? It's filthy and spreads disease, because the anal passage is designed for the excreting of faeces from one's body, and NOT sexual penetration. That is what the female vagina is for.
I loved Maggie. I wish we had her now. What a lady and she would have made Britain great again and would have stopped about 7m people entering this country. Let's bring it back in tribute to an incredible lady 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 rip Maggie Britain misses you and definitely needs you
@@richardchasonthat's exactly the point. We must ban democracy, because 99.9999% of citizens/subjects/residents do NOT have the proper political and historical education and thus do NOT deserve the right to vote
I detest Thatcher's policies, I think many of them have done a lot of damage to the UK in my opinion, however there is no denying what a skilled politician and debater she was. Every PM since Blair just uses a nauseating amount of spin and doesn't answer questions at the dispatch box, Thatcher stood there and defended her ideas to the bitter end. She would actually argue her position and do it extremely well even if I disagreed with what she was saying. Where have the talented politicians gone?
I agree with you for the most part. However, I believe that while some of her policies were mistakes (such as poll tax and anti-LGBT laws) she did more good than harm that no one else was willing to do. The unions had brought the economy to its knees and our industry was no longer profitable, it needed to be privatised so the country wasn't constantly bankrupt, as well as the power of the unions being restricted. No other MP was willing to admit that Consensus was failing and that the problem lied at the size of the Welfare State and the out of control unions. But yes, I think she got too big for her boots and lost touch with the people (like all succeeding politicians)
@@mattyhew5121 The economy needed reform but Thatcher was an extremist. She was basically the right wing version of Corbyn. A mixed economy is a much better alternative rather than just leaving everything to the markets like Thatcher did.
@@mattyhew5121 Privatisation has lead to price rises in every area. Fuel, aviation, communications and transport all cost far more today and the private companies running them are raking in record profits.
@@kevinlongman007 yes but public ownership means that while they may be cheaper, everything else isn't cause the country is broke. Privatisation allows the economy to grow and therefore more money for everybody. Thats just how economics works
@@mattyhew5121 Bigger profits for the private companies and their shareholders...the rich get richer and the poor get squeezed more, while the service provided does not necessarily improve. You only have to look at the railways and water companies to see that.
Wilson was the only leader she faced in which she was always outperformed, I’m talking very early on in 75-76, because she was then inexperienced in leading the party, unlike Wilson.
@@liamb8644 Yes, you are right. Wilson was a very skilled politician and performer in Parliament. Interesting to note that Mrs. Thatcher became close friends with Mary Wilson in later years.
Parle=to speak. It's not like US congress. It's just the speakers club that the queen has given permission to. She's the real leader.. Not the primary minister
They are the head of state. They control the armed forces and they sign bills into law and can fire the primary minister at anytime. I hate to tell you but you need to educate yourself again. There certainly doing their speaking at the speakers club parle-ment with the primary minister present
@@pa7447 Are you British? I am and I fully know what powers the Royal Family have and they most certainly cannot fire Prime ministers. Your getting ceremony mixed up with operations. Ceremonally it's called His Majestys Government, that doesn't mean King Charles gets to decide if he wants them or not or can fire them. Parliament decides if a Prime Minister is fired. The power in the UK is held within 2 parliaments - House of Commons and Lords.
A Lady indeed and a great leader what would she do now with the mess that the UK is in now I wonder. Thanks, Lady Thatcher for all you did here.
At first I thought she was wearing a few strings of pearls!
Her comments addressed to Paddy Ashdown give an inkling of how she may have dealt with the small boats from France issue.
What a mess we have today.
Thing is - no matter what you think of MT, she was not a career politician, and nor were her colleagues on both sides of the house. Back then, they stood because they STOOD FOR SOMETHING.
Margaret Thatcher was also a scientist b4 she got into politics and was very successful in both, and what's more she accomplished all this without quotas like we experience today preferencing ppl based on genders for various occupations.
@Dan.Dawson She was definitely a career politician - her careers as a chemist then barrister were just a means to that end. From an early age, she was obsessed with becoming a politician and it is likely she had deep-seated narcissistic traits, possibly inherited from her father who, if the rumours are to be believed, was a most unsavoury character.
As for having political convictions, she did and didn't. On the surface she did, but in reality she did not really practice what she preached in most areas. She was responsible for the Single Market (despite claiming to be against European integration), British membership of the ERM (despite claiming to be against moves to a single currency), the vast expansion of the state (despite claiming to want to "roll back the state", she actually increased the role of the state in people's everyday lives), the National Curriculum (what happened to keeping the state out of people's lives?), she softened the criminal justice system, and she initiated backdoor negotiations with the Provisional IRA (despite her hard public stance against them).
On the other hand, she did develop a meglomaniacal conviction in the liberal economic ideas of Hayek and she applied them as a catholic dogma, blind to the consequences of such policies on a complex society. Her hard industrial policies loosened and destroyed social cohesion in parts of the country - especially in the north of England. That is not to say her views lacked merit. I somewhat agree that, on paper, British coal mining and other areas of manufacturing, and the various state industries, needed to become more efficient from a business point of view. The coal industry, for instance, was ridiculously overmanned and outdated compared to other countries and modernisation was needed, but her execution of the necessary remedies was guided too much by academic textbook philosophy and too little by a genuine feeling for people and an understanding of the society in which business and industry are situated.
Her narrow, ultra-rationalist approach to industry had a revolutionary, Year Zero, almost Maoist flavour to it, partly motivated by a desire to destroy the political base of the Left. She could have achieved the same thing differently. She showed a tin ear to the wider economic and social consequences and ramifications of shutting down pits and breaking British industry. This was people's lives, not just numbers on a spreadsheet, and ironically for a trained scientist who claimed to be adroit in economics, she failed to appreciate the scientific nature of an economy, in that it is akin to an ecological system in which the different parts are co-dependent and set within a complex society.
She saw things in terms of the morality of self-help, perhaps influenced by her Methodist upbringing. When commenting on the miners in her political memoirs, she stated (words to the effect): "We were not there to provide outdoor relief for miners". She was a crank. She was a preachy, sanctimonious, supercilious clothead. At bottom, I think she lacked sensitivity and understanding for people whose experiences were different to hers, and paradoxically (and admittedly, contrary to her intentions), the state expanded under her premiership to address the needs of all the unemployed she created - and that legacy is still with us today, in the lingering multi-generational social problems, with swathes of people who have never worked in full-time employment because there is no industry and, with so much immigration (labour hyper-competition), employers can be ultra-choosy for what jobs there are.
Her approach was Philistinist and uneducated, and I roll my eyes when I hear similar appeals today. This is why, while she certainly had her good points and was not all bad, I don't believe she deserves the uncritical admiration she receives. At the same time, I don't believe she deserved all the hate she received, nor should her memory be tainted by such hate today. We must bear in mind that she was a creature of her time: she spent most of her political career as essentially a social democrat, in common with most post-war British politicians. That changed with Heath, who was the first real proto-thatcherite - a fact now widely forgotten. He had to reverse his free market policies in the face of industrial opposition, which explains much of what Thatcher later did. Had Labour won the 1979 general election, they would have implemented a scaled-down type of "thatcherism" and closed pits and reduced manufacturing, and would have had to confront militant trade unionists, and so on. The underlying forces were for this. It was wrong, but whether it was by scheme and design or just incompetence, I cannot say. It wasn't all down to one person, that's for sure. She was the servant of other masters. We call it "Thatcherism" rather than, say, "Heathism" or "Callaghanism" or something else, because she happened to be the person in charge at the time, not because these views and beliefs were specific or unique to her.
Omg, she was all conquering, always in command, superb leader.
My left ear was engrossed in the debate.
15:16 Brilliant. Lessons we can’t seem to learn.
Mrs Thatcher I’m proud I was born in 1982 during your time as PM RIP.
😂😂😂
Loved her outfit.
Восторгаюсь!!! Умная, красивая, сильная и смелая!
The Speaker really looks dignified at this era. Now, the Speaker looks like any other politician that is hated by the people
my left ear loved this
Superb leader. She is well missed, wish you was in charge now.
Why can’t we have great leaders now:(
Because of the bloody woke infested snowflakes. I mean, my honourable friends have some great ideas but lack spunk and leadership because they can’t say what they want for fear of offending the doorstop that holds the house of common’s door open. I’m LGBT and I do not get offended by a strong leader as long as the honourable leader has a good heart and the best interest of their constituents.
@@jakemcgovern8111 Yea, the woke snowlfakes elected Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, and Tony Blair. lmfao haven't got a clue what you're on about
She was not great all of the time, look at Section 28, for example
@@H-Marina-Sas-Pige-TapaBear in mind that awful policy was also supported by many Labour MPs and Peers.....
What has anal - penile intercourse got to do with real education in schools? It's filthy and spreads disease, because the anal passage is designed for the excreting of faeces from one's body, and NOT sexual penetration. That is what the female vagina is for.
15:41 wow. Those words are so perspicacious and haunting to hear today.
Right??? Seems like hearing Meloni.
@@n3493 and she is right .
Wonderful woman! So dominant in that black skirt suit and high collared blouse.
Okay how ironic is it that John Major was speaking at the begin if of the video
Not very
Not very, as he was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time.
"The German firm of Reichswagen" is an interesting little marker of how generationally different parliament was then
I loved Maggie. I wish we had her now. What a lady and she would have made Britain great again and would have stopped about 7m people entering this country. Let's bring it back in tribute to an incredible lady 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 rip Maggie Britain misses you and definitely needs you
Nor would she have plunged us into lockdown.
What specifically did you like? Give me 5 policies
She was running the country into the ground by 1990
PMQ hasn't changed one iota.The speaker has to keep telling the MPs to have some manners and not jeering and yelling all the time.
The iron lady
What a leader like or dislike it matters not ...
Now Lord Kinnock. 😂😂
I have never ever and never will vote tory. I didn't like her, but she was a strong leader
Pish posh
15:38 is prophetic
Woahh.
She was based af
Good old fashion common sense. It still exists. It's just that people who have it are afraid to use it.
Turns my stomach as to what we’ve become. MT bang on the money, once again.
@@Cassidy127 She didn’t stop immigration
1:57 did he just say „Reichswagen“ instead of Volkswagen ? 😂
Well heard. Lol.
he said "Reisewagen". it was a german firm he said.
The third Reichswagen
❤️
Thatcher is the best
Whats Miranda Hart doing sitting behind neil Kinnock???
That’s Margaret Beckett
She had such command
15.50 well said
Today important things food, housing,clothes, life ,education and future rather than expensive things. If we have life than we uses expensive things.
NO ONE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PUSH SOCIALISM IN ANY COUNTRY
Nobody should be allowed to push capitalistic exploitation of poor people in any country
In a free democracy, people should be allowed to push any political ideology they wish
@@richardchasonthat's exactly the point. We must ban democracy, because 99.9999% of citizens/subjects/residents do NOT have the proper political and historical education and thus do NOT deserve the right to vote
better than listening to nancy
What's John major got to say about what's happened since !
He was always a leftist. The Tory party was full of them even then.
She was
Lamont looks so pale; Dracula comes to mind...
Her entire cabinet looked like something out of a horror movie eg. Nigel Lawson, Geoffrey Howe, Douglas Hurd, Michael Howard, on and on...
15:40……I wonder what she’d make of the mess we’re in today….
I detest Thatcher's policies, I think many of them have done a lot of damage to the UK in my opinion, however there is no denying what a skilled politician and debater she was.
Every PM since Blair just uses a nauseating amount of spin and doesn't answer questions at the dispatch box, Thatcher stood there and defended her ideas to the bitter end. She would actually argue her position and do it extremely well even if I disagreed with what she was saying. Where have the talented politicians gone?
I agree with you for the most part. However, I believe that while some of her policies were mistakes (such as poll tax and anti-LGBT laws) she did more good than harm that no one else was willing to do. The unions had brought the economy to its knees and our industry was no longer profitable, it needed to be privatised so the country wasn't constantly bankrupt, as well as the power of the unions being restricted. No other MP was willing to admit that Consensus was failing and that the problem lied at the size of the Welfare State and the out of control unions.
But yes, I think she got too big for her boots and lost touch with the people (like all succeeding politicians)
@@mattyhew5121 The economy needed reform but Thatcher was an extremist. She was basically the right wing version of Corbyn. A mixed economy is a much better alternative rather than just leaving everything to the markets like Thatcher did.
@@mattyhew5121 Privatisation has lead to price rises in every area. Fuel, aviation, communications and transport all cost far more today and the private companies running them are raking in record profits.
@@kevinlongman007 yes but public ownership means that while they may be cheaper, everything else isn't cause the country is broke. Privatisation allows the economy to grow and therefore more money for everybody. Thats just how economics works
@@mattyhew5121 Bigger profits for the private companies and their shareholders...the rich get richer and the poor get squeezed more, while the service provided does not necessarily improve. You only have to look at the railways and water companies to see that.
3:55
Respect each other men and women. That's why I want one world, one currency and one bank so that people work any part of world 🌎 with hard work.
Is that you Klaus?
She ate Kinnocks lunch everytime.
Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan always bested her in the Commons
It's amazing that in all their encounters, Neil Kinnock never once managed to get the better of the far superior political opponent.
Neither did his predecessor Michael Foot
His clichés are horrendous. A mere show off. No political basis at all
Wilson was the only leader she faced in which she was always outperformed, I’m talking very early on in 75-76, because she was then inexperienced in leading the party, unlike Wilson.
@@liamb8644 Yes, you are right. Wilson was a very skilled politician and performer in Parliament. Interesting to note that Mrs. Thatcher became close friends with Mary Wilson in later years.
@@liamb8644Jim Callaghan also bested her in debates and At questions
This is democracy manifest
I see you know your judo well.
@@erniemccracken2429 sorry I was eating a succulent Chinese meal
*OOORRRDDEER*
Parle=to speak. It's not like US congress. It's just the speakers club that the queen has given permission to. She's the real leader.. Not the primary minister
Hate to break it to you, The Royal Family have no executive power over the UK. There's a lot of ceremony that takes place but thats about it
They are the head of state. They control the armed forces and they sign bills into law and can fire the primary minister at anytime. I hate to tell you but you need to educate yourself again. There certainly doing their speaking at the speakers club parle-ment with the primary minister present
@@pa7447 Are you British? I am and I fully know what powers the Royal Family have and they most certainly cannot fire Prime ministers.
Your getting ceremony mixed up with operations.
Ceremonally it's called His Majestys Government, that doesn't mean King Charles gets to decide if he wants them or not or can fire them. Parliament decides if a Prime Minister is fired. The power in the UK is held within 2 parliaments - House of Commons and Lords.
Muppets
Tony Blair was a liar. He wanted to join the EU. But, Brexit formed and Nigel Farage was the leader. Nigel should be Prime Minister.
15:24 Biden enters the chat
Horrible woman. Glenda Jackson told the truth about her
Nornan Lamont there. The last Chancellor to crash the UK Economy.
Think you'll find that was Gordon Brown by turning a budget surplus into a gigantic deficit and selling gold at the bottom of the market.
She's looking thin here
Ini 200mpr
English
Ding dong the witch is dead 👌
Mature