Margaret Thatcher Breaks Down in Tears (1991)
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- In June 1991, Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had to wipe away tears as she recounted the day she was forced to resign. The exclusive interview with ITN's Michael Brunson was the first time Thatcher had spoken publicly since her dramatic resignation as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party in November 1990.
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"Women are too emotional for high office" - Margaret Thatcher
She is a woman too.
something has aged very well
We get it, you've watched the crown.
She had had a few attempts on her life and those around her during that time. It isn’t a woman thing, it’s more of a human thing to get emotional about something like that. The video doesn’t provide much context so I can see why you say that. Say what you will but she was an extremely passionate person.
I’d say most are
She stopped the free milk scheme for school kids. I will always remember her as Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher.
that’s not actually true, it was a labour policy that wasn’t implemented until the next parliament when she took over as education sec
Maggie Thatcher, Socialist Destroyer - the greatest!
The only Cow that didn't give school kids milk.
@@SensibleMonikerWhat’s so bad about socialism?
@@johnharvey3069everything!!! Its search packed as something beautiful but its rotten like an illusion 😂
Even an iron lady starts to weep when cutting onions.
Just going to comment the exact same until I saw yours 😂
😂
She was weeping in self-pity
The first prostitute of England.
Margaret THATCHER BUM SCRATCHER 🍑 😂
Regardless of some of her decisions, she ruled the roost in parliament and had more balls than 99.9% of today's politicians.
Yeah and then her own turned on her best thing that ever happened she was vile🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Which ones? Poll tax? Scroungers hated it
The tory boys got her in the end.
🚗💣💥
she was a friend and admirer of dictators. she was an authoritarian. and implemented austerity policies that have broken britains poor and working class to this day
I wasn’t a fan of Mrs Thatcher and was looking forward to exercising my first vote to kick her out. Tory MP’s beat me to it… but god! ALL THE GARBAGE that followed, she was a titan.
I didn't agree with a lot of her policies at the time. But in hindsight, I can see clearly how she stood out on the world stage. A woman of conviction and my god how we could do with her likes again. Compared to the piss poor politicians we have now.
Without a doubt!!
I agrée . She was a real Iron Lady! Bless her.
More backbone than any cabinet since
Hmm we could say the same to the likes of Stalin, hitler and Mao too. All massively changed history, all strong characters. I’d take Bevin thank you very much x
Totaly agree ..
These is what a strong woman looks like. Not the pretenders in Hollywood
You silly arse
EVIL
her and blair destroyed britain ....sell outs
This is what she did to so many families; reduced them to bitter tears. You reap what you sew.
Best PM the UK had in many decades, boy we could do with her now, that's for sure.
Sold the country's silverware...
Wrong party, that's what the Labour party is good at !!
Gordon Brown sold the nation’s gold for peanuts
Northsea oil will never be forgiven
Fun Fact: When she died, “ding dong the witch is dead” was at the top of the British Charts 😂
No it wasn't edgelord.
@@judgeberry6071 Yes it was, look it up 👍
So childish, Thatcher was one of the best World leaders we have ever had.
That’s a compliment
@@BLane-xr1ic Said absolutely nobody 🤣
Probably no tears for the working and middle classes that she absolutely decimated.
They gave her stonking great election victories three times. But you know best…
@@kevinallen9414 google propaganda
Deluded lefty
She saved the economy and was elected 3 times.
What, because she closed down state owned polluting mining companies that were driving the country into second world standards? Mines that no other company wanted to purchase? Because she removed tax payer money from schemes that were putting the country into extreme debt that would destroy Britain? Because she opened up opportunity for the working and middle class to entrepreneurialism, to own their own business and find wealth so easily?
Margaret Thatcher won three elections by landslide victories, with the majority of the British population being working class to begin with, slowly turning into middle class and upper-middle class citizens. She gave people hope, knowledge, opportunity, and freedom.
She’s gonna go down as one of the goat politicians
Yank comment
@@TheWorkersNewspaper1994One of the greats. Suck it red coat.
The only time she ever cried was for herself!!!!! Tory through & through.
Honestly, you're so right.
Implying that Tories have feelings? They don't. Demons in human form.
Horrible woman brought the miners to their knees and didn’t even bat her eye lashes and so many people died and suffered but she faced her maker and now one wonders what planet is she on now 🫣🫣🙈🙈
Fun fact Harold macmillan closed more mines then her also the mines were not economically viable something labour had found out they were the biggest waste of money in the history of this country the main problem with the mines was the miners who increasingly radicalised in unions while also having grown utterly complacent as the mining areas made not attempt to develop into any other sectors
You can’t be everybody’s darling
The truth is that miners struck for money, before Thatcher they got it so that they could earn a good living and THEN many of them found excuses not to work full hours cushioned as a consequence. They killed their own business early at the very least
I stood guard in the Korean DMZ with an M60 machine gun, wrapped with linked ammunition and hand grenades when Maggie Thatcher flew into Panmunjon for a diplomatic meeting in 1986 with North Koreans and Chinese. Proud moment - if also a bit bewildering.
My favorite story about "Ol Maggie" was right before the Persian Gulf War when it is reported that Margaret Thatcher turned to US President George Bush and said, "Don't you get weak in the knees on me now!" That seemed to stiffen Bush's resolve. And the war was won.
I heard the story told that Maggie thatcher told George Bush at that time don't go wobbly on me now George. :)
Thank you for your service
Nan Lars USN LCDR retire after 25 years of service
Tears for herself and her ego. The reverberations of her fanatical cruelty are still being felt in this country. She had no compassion for anyone but herself.
She saved the country. We were on our arse, close to complete bankruptcy. We were known as the sick man of Europe all through the 70s.
She wasn't a very nice person, her treatment of the less fortunate, especially those up north was needlessly cruel.
There is a fortiori, thatcher devised a cure for British disease. Had she not, our country would still experience draconian levels of productivity and would have failed to keep up with other developed nations.
@@hek8640 Well our productivity is still below the rest of the G7. This is largely down to a lack of investment and training.
@@user-sf7kl9uh7k no it isn’t, it’s down to our recovery from 2008
She feels so sorry for herself but the evil witch doesn't care about the lives she destroyed. Crocodile tears!
Not many people would entertain Jimmy Savile as a regular visitor for Sunday lunch.. she did. Says it all really..
She caused a lot more tears than that! May she rot!
Even with tears, she always looked strong.
And sexy*
Classically British. ❤️❤️🥰
@@mattclayer6541might want to higher you standards mate
@@Iamliyteralyvaas Why? She is...
Not a nice person really
This woman doesnt know what trauma is.She normalised greed and was a total egoist.
"The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself."
Thomas Sowell
well said
@@peterw.4833Couldn't think of anything smart to say so pulled out a yearbook quote
@@shrekrab correct, because I don't think I'm smarter than Sowell nor could I say it better than him, who I guarantee is smarter than both you and me by a country mile. I just happen to agree with his "yearbook quote". FYI he never even finished high school, was homeless, than went to Harvard in the 1950s as a black man. Go figure.
America normalised greed not a leader of a small island nation.
She is the longest serving PM of the 20th Century, the longest since the Marquess of Salisbury in the late Victorian era, and the longest continually serving since the Earl of Liverpool. That is some record.
go have a tug over it
@@turdinthegarybyrd4980 over your mum
The witch is in a box with her coal 🎉
@@turdinthegarybyrd4980 Mwah!
Shame she can't see the tears of the broken families and poverty as a direct result of her Neoliberal policy's
She loved this country.
She destroyed this country
No she isn’t
No she didn't. She loved the money this country brought to her corrupt family.
she is the devil
She loved the bourgeoisie.
She treated miners like they were criminals; these were not teachers or nurses, they were warriors doing a job that most can't do.
Kazała strzelać do strajkujących górników s...
Every Britishers will suffer for what the dumb queen nd King have done to the world the most cruel leaders
I think they were a set of twats to be honest. The mines weren't profitable. A lot of British farmers are moaning now.
You fit the market - not the other way round!
@@kevindonaldson8655" a set of twats" lol
Most of the miners I have known all covered each other for sleeping on shift yes it was a hard job but when 6 or more people say the same thing to you and your working just as hard it makes you wonder
Tears for herself, not for the working class or the South Wales miners or the LGBT community when her party introduced section 28 which contributed to homophobia.
Homophobia is a made up word …
And we’re all sick of lgbt
Cried for herself but not for any of the misery she caused.
She destroyed manufacturing, public services and made us into a nation of shopkeepers. She may have been the iron lady but her divisive policies were disgusting
Adored her ❤. I truly believe NO ONE will ever understand
The amount of misery she inflicted upon people in this country and then, when it's about her, it's all boohoo, poor me. The very definition of 'vile'.
what misery????
@@deborahdean8867 That's just not a serious reply.
@@angusyoung9594 its perfectly serious. She didnt take milk from School children, we know that. That was decided before she came to office. Lile what we call obama phones. It was really a Bush era project but took until Obama's term to get it accomplished. What else did she not do?
@@angusyoung9594the only misery was due to people never diversifying an economy and a fundamental misunderstanding of how the free market functions she merely ensured for the betterment of the British economic that the market was working properly
Poor her ! What about the millions of working class people and their children who were affected by this evil woman .
I’m sure she made a lot more people cry with her policies
She was often unfair in her choices but she also had some good ideas. I admire her determination to be Britain's first woman pm and in the end she was stabbed in the back by her own party .
They should never have forced her out because she won the Tory a 3rd consecutive term, something it appears they're not even capable of doing going forward.
She couldn't have stood again anyway, Prime Ministers can't fight three elections in a row. It's why Blair had to stand down too.
@@stetomlinson3146I don’t know where you got this from, but UK Prime Ministers can stand for election as many times as they want.
@@christopherjohnson3464 I stand completely corrected Christopher. Thank you. Every day is a school day! I was going on the removal of power of Thatcher nd Blair. I thought that was why Brown took over from him, and despite Thatcher being removed by her parliamentary colleagues in the Tory party, he time was limited anyway.
Like you said, I was completely wrong, apologies.
The UK was the most socially equal it has ever been before her tyrannical rule. Most of the issues we now face as a country are because of this wicked woman.
Socially equal is not good that means there is rigidity in society and that the free market isn’t functioning properly she literally ended a giant blazing money pit and caused the uk to have its largest period of true economic growth since before ww1
@@boas7742 Free market economics promotes the inequitable distribution of wealth and opportunities, it promotes corruption, it reduces social safety net programmes and exploits the consumer. To top it all off, it increases the risk of market failure. You only have to look at the factors that caused the 2008 economic crash which all began with Thatcher/Reganomics. If you are rational, you can see that there is an increased risk for another financial catastrophe in the very near future.
True. The Tory ideology remains.
Socially equal but everyone was equally poor. 😂
I never thought I was seeing Margaret thatcher cry
One of the best things to happen to Britain in a very long time she saved the country from Bankruptcy essentially
No matter what you think of Thatcher she was a strong leader and her cabinet utterly betrayed her. No one curtsied lower to HM Queen Elizabeth II Rest In Peace to Thatcher and The Queen.
Her strength is vastly over-stated. She flip-flopped with the best of them and barely ever had what can reasonably be called control of her cabinet. And as for them betraying her - she spent 11 years pretending policies of her ministers were nothing to do with her. She's the last person who should ever expect loyalty from her colleagues.
@@chrispalmer7893 to remain in power for 11 years alone says something about her strength
@@drnpictures2155 Only if you view it as an isolated fact devoid of context. She was subjected to far less scrutiny and challenge than a PM is today, and she had the blessing of facing off against an entirely unelectable opposition (not to mention the protection of an electoral system that pretty much doomed the SDP / Liberal Alliance to failure, and that being exacerbated by the ill-concealed tension between the two David's and in particular David Owen's arrogance in 1987 which made him spend days of the campaign focusing on Defence, by far his weakest card and Thatcher's strongest). Her victories are fairly unremarkable in that context in much the same way as Blair's victories in 2001 and 2005 were pretty much foregone conclusions.
I don't think they died they just went into hiding
Horrible woman no idea how people had to live
Working
Oh, crying now after the IRA almost got her. She never gave a single tear about the treatment over centuries of the Irish people by British hands, their laws and deceit. She is burning in Hell if there is such a place.
She had a great father, give her her flowers
She was the best PM since Churchill.Theres no one like her today 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍
Attlee
She cried for her losing power .. that’s the ONLY reason….she never gave a damn about anyone else
Her one mistake was the poll tax. If it wasn't for that, her leadership would not have been challenged.
Reagan and her in hades. Justice.
Get a life!
Oh how we need another Maggie. RIP you magnificent leader. Balls of steel.
ABSOLUTELY AGREE
Unfortunately everyone is far too diluted now.
@@vinnieleaderironic
We need workers, what happened to them. Degenerative youth was born as a result of her ideology
How that boot taste?
She made mistakes, as we all do, but why is it that it is only in retrospect that so many see how great she truly was.
Mistake would imply she learned her lessons from the first few ones - she did not. She was self-righteous, misogynistic, and narcissistic.
Great? The witch lost well over 2 million jobs, caused a manufacturing decline of 30%, ruined social housing, voted against more lax abortion laws, raised taxes on the poor, and was a big supporter of Ronald Reagan. She can rot in hell
She was literal trash
Thatcher was a fantastic Prime Minister with strong leadership never backing down which is desperately needed now may Miss Thatcher rest in peace
The witch got put in a pack 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Do you know your problem?
You have got no taste or sense of decent judgement.
She caused enough tears during her long, long eleven years so it made a pleasant change to see the tables reversed.
What a great woman... I wish we had such a person as a president in France, there is so much mess around since the Mitterrand era...
US, too.
@@Cheeselovincowboy You still had Reagan: "government is the problem" 😍🥰
We had Mitterand... 🤮🤧💩
she was cruel and cold.
When she was of no use to them, they stabbed her in the back.
If you would rather have what we have today compared to what she delivered you are off your head. People voted for her for a reason. You never got nothing for nothing with her and now its out of control.
What we have today is what she "delivered", and you're offering us the option of having what we had today?
Mate, do you know what words mean?
Legend, you had my vote Maggie every election. RIP 🙏 ❤
the blood of northern ireland is on your hands
Here Here.
And mine!
legend????
Your vote is not going to matter one single jot because the Tories are out in the next election.
You know shits hit the fan when you wish she was here to take charge 😂
She's still here. She's just in hiding
She looked like a gremlin, Even when she cryed.
We love you Maggie ❤️❤️❤️❤️ rest in peace...the greatest of all time 👏👏👏👏
Wouldnt go that far
Why ? You silly arse
Good riddance
We threw a party when she died.
You obviously don't come from working class or worked down the pits.
Want and Need her back.
😅
To destroy more industry?
Shut up cappo.
Like we need the plague back
Good luck with that😂
You're the last PM that had that good old fashioned British Bulldog spirit.
What a disgrace my country is is now.
God bless you. 🏴
Didn't she once complain about "moaning minnies" who bore the brunt of her policies? Yes she did. And here she is crying on TV because she got booted out of her job. She should've taken her own advice, and stopped crying because she lost hers. What gors around, comes around.
She only cries for herself. She never shed a tear for anyone else.
A Great Leader! One in a Century...
Yes you right, she destroyed economy of uk and now the British has to deal with the mess she created
Absolutely the iron lady
Rot in hell.
Man of Steel!
More like a cold and old iron woman.
@@dean9235 please she was not that cold, I understand that she wasn't that louder like many politicians but not much British politicians do it
She was as much professional and dedicated as she could
@@cerseilannister7283 Professional and dedicated does not necessarily make a good person. I saw the damage that woman did to my family and our community. Then add to that her hatred of gay people and closeness to people of questionable character tells you all you need to know about her and her circle of elites. Even Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, disliked her. She saw through her too. I trust the judgement of my family and Her Majesty.
I love this woman so important for the contemporary culture
We need Margaret Thatcher today, more than ever. I didn't vote for her but , by God, I can see what a leader she was. This country wouldn't be in the state that is is today if Margaret Thatcher was in charge. Where is her like? Woman or man, we need her like today
😂😂😂😂 she was part of the problem in to why politics is in the state that it is now!
@@benhopwood5321No......
she was of her time - her thoughts against the extreme left we have to put up with now would be brilliant
@@discharge29 What "extreme left" you're talking about?
When we could feel proud of our leader.
Always rated her. My parents did also, they alwats said that thanks to thatcher they were able to stop renting and BUY their home. A massive change in their lives and future income. Bare in mind: the coal had to stop, no matter the party in power.
Why did the coal have to stop?
Yes in allowing people to buy their homes was a great thing..Harold Wilson closed more mines than she did.
@@noneofyourbusiness1114the coal industry wasn’t competitive it relied on heavy subsidies to work it constantly ground the economy to a halt when ever there was a strike it was just a massive money pit for the economy
@@boas7742ah so the coal unions were heavily mismanaged and were just a Ponzi scheme.
I love her tears but cannot match the tears of the people she adversely affected.
The best prime minister for britain since sir Winston Churchill.
I'm glad he gets a mention. Maggie was fantastic, but Sir Winston was the greatest PM our country (or perhaps any other) has ever seen.
@@ben-9123 got voted out as soon as the war was over tho didn't he
Better
@@m33446yep
Churchill was a terrible peacetime leader 😂, don't even compare him with Thatcher who modernised the economy.
Odious woman. I will never forgive for what she did to me, my family and my community.
I don't blame you
I love this Woman 🎉
Me too!
Her cuts caused the Falklands war. She had killed UK industry by the end of the 80s
how?? she was awful
@@a_mccxwhy, her policies worked.
Why ?
Wasn't a fan but she cared fir the country and was a hard working woman not like most if the politicians now who only care about themselves
No matter what you think of her politics, you cannot deny that she was a strong PM her was committed to her post and to her country. She would not have stood for the partygate scandal.
Thanks for reminding me that she died
Sociopath suddenly has feelings
That's why she's upset. She gave everything TO THE PEOPLE'S DIGNITY AND INTEGRITY to live and provide for themselves and she has people like you to this day while she lays in her grave trashing her. You are some of the most laziest, greedy, entitled, uninformed, opinionated fools in Europe and Europe has many!
What a remarkable woman! 🇺🇲💙🇬🇧
She tried to warn you just like Enoch Powell did before her
One of the happiest days of my life so far..
You always get what you deserve
❤ thatcher would've gone nuts if she seen what the Torry government had become like nowadays,
R.i.p Baroness M Thatcher, the best thing the 🇬🇧 had. 😊
Tories like Labour are battling for centre ground. People could never vote for the ideological extremes of what the 2 parties used to stand for
Her and John Major’s rounds of privatisation have left the country’s water, rail, oil and gas industries worse off in terms of efficency, bills and fees for the British consumer, and bureaucracy. She hated socialism. But her neoliberal orthodoxy hasn’t worked in the long run.
@@beomgguks970exactly. The same with Reaganomics. Everything happening now, an ever widening chasm between the well off and everyone else, is by design and Reagan/Thatcher were the architects.
@@jimmmmy41 yes exactly, the statistics on the widening income gap (wage rise below inflation rise over the decades versus the ballooning of the number of billionaires and millionaire CEOS, etc.) don’t lie.
Vile human being
You can all see the class difference in people nowadays everybody emotional to the extremes. Well this woman does it with class.
The biggest set of balls to walk through the door of Number 10 belonged to Maggie.
FACT
It was so hard to watch
what Those treacherous backstabbing bstd’s did to
her.
It was Hard to watch without joining in
I agree
And to pick Major in place of thatcher 🤷♂️
They were tears for herself, not one single tear for the miners or the communities she destroyed. I wish my grandmother was alive to see her ousted out by her own party.
An absolute legend
Not read about and not remembered much except when you see a lactating cow...
Ruthless and vile
A wicked, wicked woman. The things she pushed through started our national decline. We were well rid of her
Actually on the contrary she did only required actions and her policies of neo-liberal economics led directly to the greatest post war economic expansion in history in the form of the Big Bang
She was a true leader!!! I visited her home in 2009. Modest.
Modest? Unlike her!
Ew
"I managed to starve all those miners"
Margaret Thatcher was a great leader. How needed she is today.
A truly great woman!!!!
By god we desperately need a leader like her now!!!!!
😂😂😂
You need help
@@winklton
From a true patriot like Maggie - yes we need help.
@@dave710she’s well dead. Thank goodness.
@@dwayne_dibley
Fool!
You prefer the sh!t we have had for the last 25 years - 🤦♂️🤷♂️
She is the strongest woman I have ever seen, so resilient so determined who saved the country!
shes rotting in hell mate
No she didn't. Saved the country? It's because of her we have the problems we have with lack of affordable housing, poor standards in private rentals and no council housing.
Ghastly woman. She was unfair, never listened, and never cared.
you see how tough she was though she quickly corrected him. dont mistake the tears for weakness.
She did well for us: she held up “managed decline” for 10 years. Blair, as a Thatcherite, maintained this for nearly another 10 years until the Iron Chancellor Brown turned to lead or even mercury, then outright failure as PM. Then the Tories tipped the joystick down into a steep dive. We haven’t yet reached the bottom.
Bring her back...
I grew up in South Korea and watched her speak on TV during the Falkland War. I did not understand fully what she was saying but I did notice she spoke with conviction and there was certain way about her. Now I know. She had charisma, True Leader ! We need someone like her now, more than ever.
They did it to Chechrll and noe Meageee.
Had she not insisted on removing the British Patrol Boat, against all advice, we would not have had the awful Falklands War.
I recall an interview long time ago now with her on Channel 4 if i remember correctly.
The interviewer was more knowledgeable on economic matters and she stated that to him. He had her on the ropes, so to speak, all of a sudden the programme went to a premature commercial break. When the program returned, he was totally different in his direction.
I dont think he worked in such a high profile ever again.
She had balls and principles and she knew what she stood for… only Nigel Farage has these qualities now no other politician
Margaret Thatcher update: She's still dead 🎉🎉🎉
Ding dong the wiked witch is dead
A bit in bad taste, but to be fair, she was quite ruthless as a PM. Let us hope the Conservatives don't go that unhinged ever again...
Letsgooo
The iron melts. It must take quite a bit of heat to melt the iron. Poor Maggie. Thank you for your service.
It's very hot in hell.
Where she is.
Rest in peace Maggie🇬🇧💗
@@SkageXL5hell for bringing reforms which lead to subsequent economic growth and removed millions from poverty?
@@NaSaSh1087That's a weird way to put "She destroyed Britain’s manufacturing industry and her policies led to mass unemployment"
2 million manufacturing jobs were lost in her 1979-81 recession and industry had been devastated.
After her recession in '83, manufacturing output was 30% lower than 1978 levels, She reduced the manufacturing base so much that the balance of payments in manufactured goods went into deficit - and has been there ever since.
She precipitated a Housing crisis still being felt today, She sowed the seeds of NHS Privatisation, Section 28... I could go on but I suspect you're not going to read this far.
Now, lets see what you are: coward, liar, or fool.
@@SkageXL5 manufacturing decline was inevitable, many European countries with left leaning governments had seen their industries decline since 1980s and shifted to developing countries like China. Even, the manufacturing decline continued through the government of Blair. Also, just a fact even if they existed they would be closed down by the left in the name of Climate change and environment. The NHS is still publicly) owned not privatised.
The right to buy wasn't a bad idea because many poorer and working class people owned their houses for the first time. The governments around the world in the 21st century have failed to stabilise the housing market. Lack of affordable housing led to the housing crisis not selling council houses to the less privileged.
I would rather be under leadership of a person who has emotions than a cold hearted leader, who has no feelings for others.
The destroyer of communities who set working class against working class. R.I.P.
I don't like everything about her, but here she was very real and inspiring.