At it heart, this is what British politic should be, not the below the belt shit we have now... as much as I like labour (old) the new set are god awful, no class, no civility and even the SNP are sour like that ian Blackwood or whatever his name is...
Oh Dennis! That quip! Brilliant! Best of enemies and foes, possibly mutual respect. But that gave her a smile and laugh. Shame there isn't more if his ilk sitting. Principled and master piss taker
@@lebruglebrug Watch his speech during her tribute in 2013. He probably didn't like her for lots of reason (being an ex miner and all) but respected her for other reasons. You don't have to like someone to respect them.
There was Tony Benn who gave up his Lordship to be a MP. Also Bob Cryer, John Prescott, Neil Kinnock, Michael Foot, Betty Boothroyd, Barbara Castle. These were left wing of the Labour Party and always had an opinion, and sometimes the truth hurts.
And he would have served you well. Shame on the labour voters who did not vote him back in .. and he was not a man for the EU. I hope he gets a peerage.
I don’t like the man😡🤬and for someone to say that humour is his greatest weapon🤷♂️🤔Mmmmmmmmmm I must have missed that part of his speech which is more like sarcasm Mmmmmmm people who are like him forget that whether you liked Maggy or not she was elected by the people of this country
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, there’s no honesty amongst politicians. The last honest politician was Enoch Powell who was castigated for being honest.
i agree with Charles Regan, but she did answer questions, in a political manor but she did answer them unlike Cameron which is why he hated Cameron more.
I think there was a mutual respect. It's clear that Dennis Skinner had a problem with Cameron and Osborne but Margaret Thatcher was not cut from the same cloth. Whatever people think of her politics she earned her way to the top in a chamber stuffed with privileged men in an era that young women today could scarcely comprehend. If today's female mp's think parliament is a sexist and aggressive bear pit they should have been in her shoes. They were the best of foes but they understood each other. Compare that with the drivel we have in the Houses of Parliament today.
I think another MP who paved the way for Thatcher was Barbara Castle. In the 1960's she showed that despite the patriarchy of the Commons she could rise above it.
She did nothing of the kind. She avoided war service at a time when Britain was crying out for women to join the womens' branches of the armed services, to work in the Women's Land Army and in the factories; she married into money and she squirmed her way up. She always looked down on ordinary people.
Privileged? Skinner was a miner In 1949, he went on to work as a coal miner at Parkhouse colliery, working there until its closure in 1962. He then worked at Glapwell colliery near Chesterfield. He spent all day hacking at a coal seam. In 1967, he attended Ruskin College, Oxford, after completing a course run by the National Union of Mineworkers at the University of Sheffield. Margaret Roberts attended Huntingtower Road Primary School and won a scholarship to Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, a grammar school.] Her school reports showed hard work and continual improvement; her extracurricular activities included the piano, field hockey, poetry recitals, swimming and walking. She was head girl in 1942-43.In her upper sixth year she applied for a scholarship to study chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, a women's college, and received a place after another candidate withdrew. Roberts arrived at Oxford in 1943 and graduated in 1947 with Second-Class Honours, in the four-year Chemistry Bachelor of Science degree, specialising in X-ray crystallography under the supervision of Dorothy Hodgkin. BOTH Skinner and Thatcher went to Oxford.
Skinner has always been an absolute bloody legend. And as much as I dont like Thatcher, at least she can get on board with this absolute brilliant sht**
Whatever we thought of politicians of that time, they'd got more character than the boring lot we've got now. The comic timing is top-notch. Brilliant stuff!
I love Mr. Skinner, but I must say; that's the most elegantly genius comeback I have seen. i am USA , and watching your parliamentary videos makes me so jealous that ours are not as entertaining. It may as well be since they are paid politicians. At least we can have beers, laugh, and enjoy this insane world- why not right ?
Most of the common wealth parliments are blander than uk but my friend I have to tell you if you understood the local language references in india I would say we are one of the few countries which carries on with the crazy parliament legacy of uk
I remember watching that debate at the time. Wish I could fine kinnoull and Mrs T's speeches in full. That comment by mr skinner and Maggie's reply were the highlight of it though
Yes, especially as he stood for election in 2019 while Ken Clarke resigned - they both joined on the same day in 1970. Then again, Dennis had said he wouldn't accept the title at any rate!
When a back bench Tory shouted out "Who are you?" Corbyn made it worse by not getting the joke. Thatcher showed why she was such an able politician while laughing along. This is how it is done. Class and I think a mutual respect from both.
I don't think Corbyn would recognise a joke if it slapped him in the face. He just might though when he looks in a mirror. It was interesting to see how many Labour MPs laughed, or at least sniggered at "Who are you?".
Too many politicians these days know nothing but politics. Thatcher was a Chemist -- not the Pharmacy kind -- then a Tax Barrister. skinner a solid working class Labour man who had come up through the ranks. Both of them, in their own way, brought insights into the lives of the real people they represented.
Thatcher did have a sense of humour. She also had perfect timing and phrasing. An intelligent and perceptive mind. Dennis Skinner threw out a ball in a witty remark but Thatcher lobbied it back with aplomb.
I believe the Conservatives felt comfortable in laughing at Skinner's comment in part because a large number of them had just voted to oust Thatcher. A leadership election held prior to this meeting of the Commons had resulted in 204 Conservative MPs voting for Thatcher, 152 Conservative MPs voting for rival Heseltine, with 16 abstentions. A second ballot was needed as this was not enough under the rules for Thatcher to hold the Prime Minister position. She was later persuaded to drop out and resign rather than face defeat in a second ballot, and John Major became Prime Minister.
@@jshadowhunter Just because it happened doesnt make it good, so I'll say it again, enjoy the UK going to shit, well, going to even more shit than it is.
I disagreed with his politics most of the time, but I respected him for his integrity. He would rather be thrown out of the Chamber, as he was calling Cameron "Dodgy Dave", than remain silent to just sit in his seat.
Most of the politicians were capitalists...thatcher was...for sure...they also had something that doesn't exist in the house of commons at this time. Integrity.
Whatever you think about these two, it's refreshing looking back here at two politicians who genuinely believed in things rather than what we currently have
We need a Margaret Thatcher now...the political landscape is a wasteland on all sides...as soon as Teresa Dismay leaves office, were not left with anything better....terrible position to be in....its worrying times ahead!
@@charlesregan4576 Tony Blair spent all the money, took us to two wars, that weren't legal, taxed the ass out of everyone, made students pay for their education, part privatisation of the NHS through stelth, sold half our gold for half of what is was worth..... You obviously never lived through the 70s with a statement like that... Labour bankrupted the country in the 70s and had to ask the IMF to bail is out, unemployment was in the millions, 3 day working week, interest rates at 28.5%, everthing on strike, The good ol days my arse...Thatcher was the architect of everyone's better living standards and wealth today.
@@EugVR6 First, I am not a fan of Blair. Blair was and remains a Thatcherite. Second, the claim that 'Blair spent all the money' is nonsense. The fact is that between 1997 and 2008 the national debt as a % of GDP fell. I know all about the introduction of fees and I opposed it at the time, as I still do. I also opposed the iraq war. Wonder if you marched against it as I did? The gold story is discredited in any event. You must have very poor judgement my friend. I not only lived during the 1970s, I was working full time during that decade. Wonder what you were doing as your statements bear no resemblance to the reality of that decade. Full employment for most of the decade,, well paid secure employment at that; affordable housing with an average house costing c. 3.5 times an average annual income and council housing available readily for those who needed it; low crime; clean streets and more. Given that 90% of people are in income terms worse off today than they were in the 1970s, your claim about Thatcher creating 'better living standards' is no more than a fantasy. In the 1970s, the UK was one of Europe's most equal countries in terms of wealth and income distribution. Thanks to Thatcher, followed by Blair, it is now Europe's most unequal in both respects. Unemployment was low in the 70s but soared to 5 million thanks to Thatcher's closures of industry and has never really fallen; today it is 6 million.
@@charlesregan4576 Charles Regan Lets start with Blair and Brown, the architects of today's debt shit pile. National Debt stood at £346 billion in 1996, by 2009 it stood at £1011 billion, a 3 fold increase or 191% rise. ONS stats Alistair Darling stated in real terms, Labour spent more money than all the government's for the last 300 years, in 10 years! The public sector debt under Labour was around 35% of GDP but that jumped to 65% in 2009!. Gordon Brown sold 395 tons of the country's Gold reserves for £3.5 billion but he announced to the markets that he was going to do that and the gold markets crashed to a 20 year low, leaving the tax payer £7 billion out of pocket. Ergo sold the gold for half its money. You say there was work all through the 70s! And yet by the late 70s everything was on strike and we had a 3 day week and shit piling up everywhere, with electricity strikes, bakers strikes etc etc. 1971 is the joint highest year for unemployment for this country, 1984 being the other, with 3.6 million unemployed...stats from the ONS. So your claims of 6 million unemployed is horse shit and unemployment has never been at 6 million. 2019 stands at the lowest unemployment has ever been in the UK at 1.49 million. Labour stole £50 Billion from our pensions pot and there is a £50 Billion hole in it today and we all got to work until were 67 for it. Housing in the 70s started off with 31% ownership and the rest renting but that rose to 52% by 1979 but at 28.5% interest rates, your low wages, were stretched thin, the same as today, rent v ownership stands at 65% owned today. Image inflation through the roof and 28.5% interest rates today!, makes the Thatcher rescission 17% interest rates seem ok. As for house prices, your wearing rose tinted glasses...in 1970, the average house price was £4975 and the average wage was £32 and it took 25 years to buy your house, by 1979 the average house price had jumped to £19925 and wages had risen to £115 per week and it took 25 years to buy your house. My father in law paid £14700 for his house in 1978 and it took him 25 years to pay his mortgage off, them same time as it takes today to pay off, which is the same as 1970. Money devalues over the years, so its just more noughts on prices. Your claim of low crime is also through rose tinted glasses, as crime rose sharply in the late 60s and carried on rising all through the 70s and 80s until it started to drop in 1990. You are correct about two things, I was a teenager through the latter 70s, so I didn't work through it. I didn't go on the Anti war March as I knew we were going to war 7 months before we did go to war. The million odd people who marched wasted their time but didnt know it. I applaud you for doing it, as I knew it was all started on a lie and the Awful daily news papers have a lot to answer for because there was no way Saddam could hit us with any missiles in 45min or in 45 years, for that matter. It boiled down to oil and what Israel wanted but thats another story....
There is a longer version of the clip. It was a debate over whether the UK should adopt the Euro or stay on the pound (she supported the pound). She was asked if she would continue her political career and Skinner quipped that she would become governor of the European Central Bank, to which she later responded that if she was, there would be no single currency Europe.
I'm most grateful to the prime Minister. Would you tell us whether she intends to continue her own personal fight against the single currency and an indipendent Central Bank when she leaves Office? No, she's gonna be the Governor! On the present structure..... 😂 😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂...... Order... Prime Minister! What a good idea! I haven't thought of it! (which means she did mean "she" )
She, and the Conservative Party, were against the establishment of a European Central Bank and the universal adoption of the Euro, and the question posed was whether she was truly opposed to it, or just opposed because of her position in Parliament. Skinner joked that, after leaving office, she would become "the Governor" of the Central Bank, and completely go against her party's policies regarding the Euro. Mainly, he was making fun of the question's absurd premise with a sarcastic quip, and Thatcher adds to the joke as well.
The question that Alan Beath asked was if she would still be opposed to the creation of a European central bank after she left office. Skinner's quip was that 'she wanted to be governor'. It broke the tension on a day on which it was to be her last prime minister's question time. Her reaction was good and his was clever
Its refreshing to see both sides of the house laughing.
At it heart, this is what British politic should be, not the below the belt shit we have now... as much as I like labour (old) the new set are god awful, no class, no civility and even the SNP are sour like that ian Blackwood or whatever his name is...
They are laughing coz the joke is on the common man.
Both parties are the same at the top .
@@ageofechochambers9469 Considering Skinner's background was as a miner, he is very much a common man in everyway. He stood for the working class.
I wonder if she didn't have a sneaky admiration for him. He wasn't afraid of her like her wet lettuce Cabinet
Even Thatcher found this funny.
Hi
Everyone found it funny
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 True...and it was!
I like it when the two parties put aside their differences in moments like this, everyone had a good laugh
Dennis Skinner is a gift to the world
You look strange
0:34 and this Lord is the strangest
Just like MR BEAN@@rajvanshiaditya
Oh Dennis! That quip! Brilliant! Best of enemies and foes, possibly mutual respect. But that gave her a smile and laugh.
Shame there isn't more if his ilk sitting. Principled and master piss taker
No mutual respect. He despised Thatcher.
@@lebruglebrug Watch his speech during her tribute in 2013. He probably didn't like her for lots of reason (being an ex miner and all) but respected her for other reasons. You don't have to like someone to respect them.
I’m not sure if it’s mutual but I know she’s on record as having respected him for never surrending his values and for never missing a days work
Eh....I don't remember posting this comment.
There was Tony Benn who gave up his Lordship to be a MP. Also Bob Cryer, John Prescott, Neil Kinnock, Michael Foot, Betty Boothroyd, Barbara Castle. These were left wing of the Labour Party and always had an opinion, and sometimes the truth hurts.
Wonderful Dennis. Humour is a great weapon and he uses it to perfection. I wish he was my MP.
And he would have served you well. Shame on the labour voters who did not vote him back in .. and he was not a man for the EU. I hope he gets a peerage.
@@mop714 I would like to hear his remarks when they offer him a seat in the Lords 😀😁😂
@@wishfix I suspect if he got in and had to swear his oath, in another breath, he probably would swear in another way!!!!
@@wishfix imagine if he became Blackrod 🤣
I don’t like the man😡🤬and for someone to say that humour is his greatest weapon🤷♂️🤔Mmmmmmmmmm I must have missed that part of his speech which is more like sarcasm Mmmmmmm people who are like him forget that whether you liked Maggy or not she was elected by the people of this country
I think The Baroness liked and respected him. In a way they were two of a kind. I still remember when politicians were honest, honourable people.
Thatcher was neither honest nor honourable.
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, there’s no honesty amongst politicians. The last honest politician was Enoch Powell who was castigated for being honest.
i agree with Charles Regan, but she did answer questions, in a political manor but she did answer them unlike Cameron which is why he hated Cameron more.
@@charlesregan4576 Do tell
@@caijones7687 Yes, "Thatcher was neither honest nor honourable" is completely true but at least she was politically savvy.
Thatcher was opposed to EU central bank ,but the joke was skinner saying she'd run the bank after leaving office of prime minister
Even Thatcher laughed!
She laughed, not just because of his sarcasm ... it played into her ego.
This is a core british skill. I can disagree with you, but we can laugh it off at the pub. 👍
Dennis Skinner has always been my favourite MP. Straight forward, honest and above all funny.
They never laugh like this anymore. Together.
Yes they do
What a comeback by Thatcher as well.
Very mild. Skinner was on 🔥
It was pretty shit, her tory mates gave it a laugh because they'd laugh at anything she says.
I think there was a mutual respect. It's clear that Dennis Skinner had a problem with Cameron and Osborne but Margaret Thatcher was not cut from the same cloth. Whatever people think of her politics she earned her way to the top in a chamber stuffed with privileged men in an era that young women today could scarcely comprehend. If today's female mp's think parliament is a sexist and aggressive bear pit they should have been in her shoes. They were the best of foes but they understood each other. Compare that with the drivel we have in the Houses of Parliament today.
I think another MP who paved the way for Thatcher was Barbara Castle. In the 1960's she showed that despite the patriarchy of the Commons she could rise above it.
Well said!
welsh toro how do.u know?
She did nothing of the kind. She avoided war service at a time when Britain was crying out for women to join the womens' branches of the armed services, to work in the Women's Land Army and in the factories; she married into money and she squirmed her way up. She always looked down on ordinary people.
Privileged?
Skinner was a miner
In 1949, he went on to work as a coal miner at Parkhouse colliery, working there until its closure in 1962. He then worked at Glapwell colliery near Chesterfield.
He spent all day hacking at a coal seam.
In 1967, he attended Ruskin College, Oxford, after completing a course run by the National Union of Mineworkers at the University of Sheffield.
Margaret Roberts attended Huntingtower Road Primary School and won a scholarship to Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, a grammar school.] Her school reports showed hard work and continual improvement; her extracurricular activities included the piano, field hockey, poetry recitals, swimming and walking. She was head girl in 1942-43.In her upper sixth year she applied for a scholarship to study chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, a women's college, and received a place after another candidate withdrew.
Roberts arrived at Oxford in 1943 and graduated in 1947 with Second-Class Honours, in the four-year Chemistry Bachelor of Science degree, specialising in X-ray crystallography under the supervision of Dorothy Hodgkin.
BOTH Skinner and Thatcher went to Oxford.
Skinner has always been an absolute bloody legend. And as much as I dont like Thatcher, at least she can get on board with this absolute brilliant sht**
He was proud to come from a working class mining town. Clay cross. Never be a man like him again ever
Whatever we thought of politicians of that time, they'd got more character than the boring lot we've got now. The comic timing is top-notch. Brilliant stuff!
It's very sad that Dennis Skinner is no longer in parliament. Parliament is now lesser a place.
Maggie's timing here was perfect.
Yes. She let the laughter subside then delivered her line like a seasoned stand up comedian.
Dennis skinner is a legend. The beast of bolsolver. 👏🏿
I love Mr. Skinner, but I must say; that's the most elegantly genius comeback I have seen. i am USA , and watching your parliamentary videos makes me so jealous that ours are not as entertaining. It may as well be since they are paid politicians. At least we can have beers, laugh, and enjoy this insane world- why not right ?
Most of the common wealth parliments are blander than uk but my friend I have to tell you if you understood the local language references in india I would say we are one of the few countries which carries on with the crazy parliament legacy of uk
Ours is hilarious in the wrong ways.
British Humor at its finest.
I believe they both respected each other poles apart on thier politics but respect clears the way through this incident and humor shone through
I remember watching that debate at the time. Wish I could fine kinnoull and Mrs T's speeches in full. That comment by mr skinner and Maggie's reply were the highlight of it though
48&1/2 years as an MP and still gets the Laughs from everybody's entertainment from Skinner
The Commons is a duller place without the legendary Skinner, and I'm saying it as an Irishman, shame he didn't make Father of the House.
Yes, especially as he stood for election in 2019 while Ken Clarke resigned - they both joined on the same day in 1970. Then again, Dennis had said he wouldn't accept the title at any rate!
Thatcher laughing at those jokes, unlike Corbyn
she laughed coz she got shamed up
She laughed because she had confidence in her own ability and convictions. Blair would have done the same thing for the same reasons.
@@afgzee2011 projecting your insecurities to a former British Female MP, and she had a comeback sweetheart.
0:19 fella behind Thatcher stops laughing as she turns around, what a wimp
Maggie had it all, and she even was a good sport. 👍
Wonderful and just fabulous.
Oh ! I do miss Denis..🤗🤗
Magrets response was perfect
When a back bench Tory shouted out "Who are you?" Corbyn made it worse by not getting the joke. Thatcher showed why she was such an able politician while laughing along. This is how it is done. Class and I think a mutual respect from both.
I don't think Corbyn would recognise a joke if it slapped him in the face. He just might though when he looks in a mirror. It was interesting to see how many Labour MPs laughed, or at least sniggered at "Who are you?".
Love him....good old fashioned values. This place has gone to shit!!!
freedom - you're spot on !
Indeed. Dennis always puts common sense and decency before political beliefs.
Dennis is like the least old fashioned man ever.
The more i watch the more I miss these people, what has gone wrong ?
a lot
international banking and fortune 500 companies
WE ARE GETTING OLD. TRUE!
Too many politicians these days know nothing but politics. Thatcher was a Chemist -- not the Pharmacy kind -- then a Tax Barrister. skinner a solid working class Labour man who had come up through the ranks. Both of them, in their own way, brought insights into the lives of the real people they represented.
Absolute quality you couldn't make it up 😂😂😂😂
Bloody brilliant!!
That was a good one dennis skinner lol
Thatcher did have a sense of humour. She also had perfect timing and phrasing. An intelligent and perceptive mind. Dennis Skinner threw out a ball in a witty remark but Thatcher lobbied it back with aplomb.
And they all laughed happily ever after.
I believe the Conservatives felt comfortable in laughing at Skinner's comment in part because a large number of them had just voted to oust Thatcher. A leadership election held prior to this meeting of the Commons had resulted in 204 Conservative MPs voting for Thatcher, 152 Conservative MPs voting for rival Heseltine, with 16 abstentions. A second ballot was needed as this was not enough under the rules for Thatcher to hold the Prime Minister position. She was later persuaded to drop out and resign rather than face defeat in a second ballot, and John Major became Prime Minister.
One of Britain’s greatest treasures best prime minister
Lay off the drugs
Teu cu!
Perfect dynamic duo... and now they're both gone, one's 6 feet under, another lost his seat because of Corbynated Chicken and his awful leadership.
Enjoy Chlorinated Chicken from Johnson's "oven ready" Brexit deal.
@@nathanh5448 We'll UK's out of EU. It worked. And Corbyn got backstabbed by his own party.
@@jshadowhunter Just because it happened doesnt make it good, so I'll say it again, enjoy the UK going to shit, well, going to even more shit than it is.
Gosh truly legendary
A draw I would say. A witty joke, and a good humoured retort.
I don't like Thatcher but she took took it like a good sport
Dennis Skinner 😎🤣😎
This is class
Too right ... the humour and sarcastic truth goes along way ... can you see this happening in today`s parliament?
Brilliant
Compare this House with what we have today...
Tremendous humor!!!
0:36 😂
Lord Heckler.
Pure class luv him 😂😂
I disagreed with his politics most of the time, but I respected him for his integrity. He would rather be thrown out of the Chamber, as he was calling Cameron "Dodgy Dave", than remain silent to just sit in his seat.
Most of the politicians were capitalists...thatcher was...for sure...they also had something that doesn't exist in the house of commons at this time. Integrity.
This was funny.
Parliamentary wit we will never see the likes of again!
Whatever you think about these two, it's refreshing looking back here at two politicians who genuinely believed in things rather than what we currently have
Banteress Thatcher
Well they basically agreed on Europe in the end
Thatchers last stand against socilism
The Heckler Skinner was a socialist, the other guy was a globalist neoliberal.
@@elhombredeoro955 I know that
When UK politics were civilised, unlike now
What is the hand gesture he makes towards her when everyone is laughing? Is it specific to the UK?
It is a hand gesture my father use to make, being a socialist. It means, making money machine.
They stood for different things but they both never wavered from said things. Two sides of the same coin.
Can anyone explain it for me
good video,keep it up
She would have excelled at that aswell 👌
Aw majors pissin himself
To " joust with jest" is rare these days.
Well said!
Much prefer Mrs. Thatcher to Mr. Skinner. Who just a goby lout and not a gift to any world in my opinion
I love the reaction of Sir John Major.
He was very composed. Very man. A real Sir!
I despised her to the very quick, but she was sharp and unbowed.
We need a Margaret Thatcher now...the political landscape is a wasteland on all sides...as soon as Teresa Dismay leaves office, were not left with anything better....terrible position to be in....its worrying times ahead!
Thatcher created the wasteland...
@@charlesregan4576 Tony Blair spent all the money, took us to two wars, that weren't legal, taxed the ass out of everyone, made students pay for their education, part privatisation of the NHS through stelth, sold half our gold for half of what is was worth.....
You obviously never lived through the 70s with a statement like that...
Labour bankrupted the country in the 70s and had to ask the IMF to bail is out, unemployment was in the millions, 3 day working week, interest rates at 28.5%, everthing on strike, The good ol days my arse...Thatcher was the architect of everyone's better living standards and wealth today.
@@EugVR6 First, I am not a fan of Blair. Blair was and remains a Thatcherite.
Second, the claim that 'Blair spent all the money' is nonsense. The fact is that between 1997 and 2008 the national debt as a % of GDP fell. I know all about the introduction of fees and I opposed it at the time, as I still do. I also opposed the iraq war. Wonder if you marched against it as I did? The gold story is discredited in any event.
You must have very poor judgement my friend. I not only lived during the 1970s, I was working full time during that decade. Wonder what you were doing as your statements bear no resemblance to the reality of that decade. Full employment for most of the decade,, well paid secure employment at that; affordable housing with an average house costing c. 3.5 times an average annual income and council housing available readily for those who needed it; low crime; clean streets and more.
Given that 90% of people are in income terms worse off today than they were in the 1970s, your claim about Thatcher creating 'better living standards' is no more than a fantasy. In the 1970s, the UK was one of Europe's most equal countries in terms of wealth and income distribution. Thanks to Thatcher, followed by Blair, it is now Europe's most unequal in both respects. Unemployment was low in the 70s but soared to 5 million thanks to Thatcher's closures of industry and has never really fallen; today it is 6 million.
@@charlesregan4576 Charles Regan Lets start with Blair and Brown, the architects of today's debt shit pile.
National Debt stood at £346 billion in 1996, by 2009 it stood at £1011 billion, a 3 fold increase or 191% rise. ONS stats
Alistair Darling stated in real terms, Labour spent more money than all the government's for the last 300 years, in 10 years!
The public sector debt under Labour was around 35% of GDP but that jumped to 65% in 2009!.
Gordon Brown sold 395 tons of the country's Gold reserves for £3.5 billion but he announced to the markets that he was going to do that and the gold markets crashed to a 20 year low, leaving the tax payer £7 billion out of pocket. Ergo sold the gold for half its money.
You say there was work all through the 70s! And yet by the late 70s everything was on strike and we had a 3 day week and shit piling up everywhere, with electricity strikes, bakers strikes etc etc.
1971 is the joint highest year for unemployment for this country, 1984 being the other, with 3.6 million unemployed...stats from the ONS. So your claims of 6 million unemployed is horse shit and unemployment has never been at 6 million.
2019 stands at the lowest unemployment has ever been in the UK at 1.49 million.
Labour stole £50 Billion from our pensions pot and there is a £50 Billion hole in it today and we all got to work until were 67 for it.
Housing in the 70s started off with 31% ownership and the rest renting but that rose to 52% by 1979 but at 28.5% interest rates, your low wages, were stretched thin, the same as today, rent v ownership stands at 65% owned today.
Image inflation through the roof and 28.5% interest rates today!, makes the Thatcher rescission 17% interest rates seem ok.
As for house prices, your wearing rose tinted glasses...in 1970, the average house price was £4975 and the average wage was £32 and it took 25 years to buy your house, by 1979 the average house price had jumped to £19925 and wages had risen to £115 per week and it took 25 years to buy your house.
My father in law paid £14700 for his house in 1978 and it took him 25 years to pay his mortgage off, them same time as it takes today to pay off, which is the same as 1970.
Money devalues over the years, so its just more noughts on prices.
Your claim of low crime is also through rose tinted glasses, as crime rose sharply in the late 60s and carried on rising all through the 70s and 80s until it started to drop in 1990.
You are correct about two things, I was a teenager through the latter 70s, so I didn't work through it.
I didn't go on the Anti war March as I knew we were going to war 7 months before we did go to war.
The million odd people who marched wasted their time but didnt know it.
I applaud you for doing it, as I knew it was all started on a lie and the Awful daily news papers have a lot to answer for because there was no way Saddam could hit us with any missiles in 45min or in 45 years, for that matter.
It boiled down to oil and what Israel wanted but thats another story....
@@EugVR6 Actually .... on tick!
He made the iron lady crack... or- durreee
Hear heat dennis
All the club need is good irish ale
Someone has to explain to me: what did Skinner mean by "governor"?
Warblerab 295 the boss
There is a longer version of the clip. It was a debate over whether the UK should adopt the Euro or stay on the pound (she supported the pound). She was asked if she would continue her political career and Skinner quipped that she would become governor of the European Central Bank, to which she later responded that if she was, there would be no single currency Europe.
The guvnor is the boss.
Governor of what? Could someone please explain...
The Governor of the Central Bank of the European Union.
The context is that she was against the single currency (Euro) for the entire Europe.
I'm most grateful to the prime Minister.
Would you tell us whether she intends to continue her own personal fight against the single currency and an indipendent Central Bank when she leaves Office?
No, she's gonna be the Governor!
On the present structure.....
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Order...
Prime Minister!
What a good idea!
I haven't thought of it!
(which means she did mean "she" )
Great comment, great retort!!
When politicians were funny and smart, unlike the group of petulant children running this great nation into the ground nowadays 😬
Both products of Grammar Schools.
When politics are a joke, how can you not laugh?
But they weren't in those days. They were deadly serious; a real case of "Ideologies Clashing".
In today world..feminist will ripped apart him..
lol
Sure this is not a scene from "Yes Mistress"?
What is the meaning can anyone please give me a brief summary please.
She, and the Conservative Party, were against the establishment of a European Central Bank and the universal adoption of the Euro, and the question posed was whether she was truly opposed to it, or just opposed because of her position in Parliament.
Skinner joked that, after leaving office, she would become "the Governor" of the Central Bank, and completely go against her party's policies regarding the Euro.
Mainly, he was making fun of the question's absurd premise with a sarcastic quip, and Thatcher adds to the joke as well.
Thanks much better.
Can't get one over on Maggie
What’s the joke? And also the speaker looks ancient
What does the gesture mean skinner is doing?
Money
What did he actually said?
"No she will be the governor [of the European central bank]" or something like that
HEIL US GIDRA!
Witch
What exactly did Skinner say? I can't understand.
"Nah, she's gonna be the guvnor!"
The question that Alan Beath asked was if she would still be opposed to the creation of a European central bank after she left office. Skinner's quip was that 'she wanted to be governor'. It broke the tension on a day on which it was to be her last prime minister's question time. Her reaction was good and his was clever
Thanks!
@@chrisw6704 This was 5 days before her last PMQs.
@@chrisw6704 The sarcastic truth was, she would and he knew it.
can someone explain the joke to me plz
I don’t get it
What’s The Point she’s going to run the bank administrating an eu central currency-anathema to her very British values
Don't like women -but great answer !
most successful women in 'men's' circles don't try to change them
great comment
Someone please explain the joke to me