'Which of us can truly understand such people?' Brian Walden ends with that question but his summary of Margaret Thatcher's career shows that he got pretty close to understanding her. He was modest enough to leave the final judgement open.
Walden states that people were 'astonished' that Labour elected Foot as leader in 1980. And yet he doesn't mention that he himself voted for Foot in the 1976 Labour leadership election.
Good analysis.and help dispell the myths about Thatcher. Love Walden and his unique voice. Foot was the Corbyn of the 1980s , keeping the Tories in power. The Bwitish people 😜
It's a point of view about her, but just a point of view... In the Tories, those who didn't like her (like Heseltine) were mostly snobs who couldn't stand the rise and leadership of a grocer's daughter. You only have to listen to Heseltine to hear this snobbery. She was very tough, it's true, but in any case she was a woman of conviction who didn't change her opinion according to the polls, as they all do today.
She fck’d this cvntry up , committed war crimes , sold off our shared housing stock , devalued our connection with Europe , devalued workers rights , closed our mines only for us to import coal at much higher rates costing us more for at least three decades, many of the problems in Britain today are because of the poor decisions of thatcher and the Tory party of the eighties
an entire generation destroyed by this lady! one whole decade has gone down the drain. Industrial North and the West Midlands suffered so much as one industry after another collapsed. The manufacturing economy decimated under Thatcher. SAD ;*(
A verdict filled with half truths mixed up with diabolical nonsense. Whatever harshness was felt in the 1980s came indirectly as a result of decades of socialism that held back the countries progress at the hands of militant strike action and often at times illegal. The notion that "all the British people want is a quiet life" is rather condescending on Britain's character for whilst it's true one could appreciate an easy going life, you certainly don't however build a backbone for when it's necessary. By the way Labour (who once made that remark) most certainly didn't give an easy quiet life in the 1970s when out backing militant strikes in opposition to bring the government down whilst when back in power sought to sign away more of parliament's power's whether on picketing or constitutional affairs or on matters that uphold the rule of law. A 33% low tax rate and 83% high tax rate hike is not what I'd call supporting a "quiet life" rather it is further inflaming ones ability to pay and strive to further enhance causing ever more discontent. Certain facts have been referred to here but are portrayed with a rather socialist twist.
trafficlight9199 So if that's the case on gdp % what's socialists problem then? You're missing the fact however that various sectors of the economy came under goverment expenditure such as nationalised industries, so if as a % expenditure remained the same then that's an indication MORE money was spent on things like the NHS which you highlighted upon. In fact in real terms from 1979 to 90 NHS spending was UP by 23%, so your gibbering indifference is utterly irrelevant. 42% is far better than what Labour left at nearly 52% in 2010 with a little note in the treasury for Cameron's goverment "There's no more money!" Yessss how Labour of them to point out.
trafficlight9199 And 1976 was just an oil thing right? Blame it all on Mrs T is all the left can say never mind Labour's blunders. Live in the 70s if you wish sunny Jim.
@Paul Gavin Absolutely funny though the left lecture on solely the 1980s where at the point of scargill declaring another illegitimate strike the Coal board was receiving an additional £1.3b above income receipts from the government. It was Major who finished them off in the 90s of which Mrs Thatcher saw it as a betrayal herself to the miners who carried on working in The Downing Street years.
It wasn't the case at all that ' most people didn't like her policies'. It was that most people think what their shitty rag of a newspaper tells them to think. Those of us with our own brain knew she was amazing.
Brian Waldren a master of the political interview. RIP . The country still needs you.
Yes who is there to replace him? Cathy Newman? Most of them are a joke now
He belongs in hell. He was a biased interviewer.
I always watched Walden.he knew his stuff.nobody did it better on interviews.
'Which of us can truly understand such people?' Brian Walden ends with that question but his summary of Margaret Thatcher's career shows that he got pretty close to understanding her. He was modest enough to leave the final judgement open.
Walden states that people were 'astonished' that Labour elected Foot as leader in 1980. And yet he doesn't mention that he himself voted for Foot in the 1976 Labour leadership election.
Watched waldren when I was a kid doing interviews
The SDP split on the right of the labour party and the antics of Benn on the left made Foots task impossible
Walden was so talented
4:35-4:50....history repeats itself.
Good analysis.and help dispell the myths about Thatcher. Love Walden and his unique voice. Foot was the Corbyn of the 1980s , keeping the Tories in power. The Bwitish people 😜
It's a point of view about her, but just a point of view... In the Tories, those who didn't like her (like Heseltine) were mostly snobs who couldn't stand the rise and leadership of a grocer's daughter. You only have to listen to Heseltine to hear this snobbery.
She was very tough, it's true, but in any case she was a woman of conviction who didn't change her opinion according to the polls, as they all do today.
She was one of the best,she could make rings round any of them.she still could today if she was around.
She fck’d this cvntry up , committed war crimes , sold off our shared housing stock , devalued our connection with Europe , devalued workers rights , closed our mines only for us to import coal at much higher rates costing us more for at least three decades, many of the problems in Britain today are because of the poor decisions of thatcher and the Tory party of the eighties
Says you.
Two women later...
an entire generation destroyed by this lady! one whole decade has gone down the drain. Industrial North and the West Midlands suffered so much as one industry after another collapsed.
The manufacturing economy decimated under Thatcher. SAD ;*(
Don't forget Scotland was destroyed by her
A binary, myopic and pretty much asinine assessment.
@@robertpollock1986 A binary, myopic and pretty much asinine assessment.
Walden was the biggest creep ever to get an ITV show. Each Sunday he crept up Thatcher's backside.
That is s not true. A remarkably ignorant comment.
Both Thatcher and Walden were loathsome treacherous creatures
Correct.
Too right, I wouldn't have shagged either of them, no matter how trousered I was.
@@stephensharp3033 totally incorrect regarding Walden.
Strong words from the pseudonymous member from Hebden Bridge
A verdict filled with half truths mixed up with diabolical nonsense.
Whatever harshness was felt in the 1980s came indirectly as a result of decades of socialism that held back the countries progress at the hands of militant strike action and often at times illegal.
The notion that "all the British people want is a quiet life" is rather condescending on Britain's character for whilst it's true one could appreciate an easy going life, you certainly don't however build a backbone for when it's necessary. By the way Labour (who once made that remark) most certainly didn't give an easy quiet life in the 1970s when out backing militant strikes in opposition to bring the government down whilst when back in power sought to sign away more of parliament's power's whether on picketing or constitutional affairs or on matters that uphold the rule of law. A 33% low tax rate and 83% high tax rate hike is not what I'd call supporting a "quiet life" rather it is further inflaming ones ability to pay and strive to further enhance causing ever more discontent.
Certain facts have been referred to here but are portrayed with a rather socialist twist.
trafficlight9199 So if that's the case on gdp % what's socialists problem then? You're missing the fact however that various sectors of the economy came under goverment expenditure such as nationalised industries, so if as a % expenditure remained the same then that's an indication MORE money was spent on things like the NHS which you highlighted upon. In fact in real terms from 1979 to 90 NHS spending was UP by 23%, so your gibbering indifference is utterly irrelevant.
42% is far better than what Labour left at nearly 52% in 2010 with a little note in the treasury for Cameron's goverment "There's no more money!" Yessss how Labour of them to point out.
trafficlight9199 And 1976 was just an oil thing right? Blame it all on Mrs T is all the left can say never mind Labour's blunders. Live in the 70s if you wish sunny Jim.
@Paul Gavin Absolutely funny though the left lecture on solely the 1980s where at the point of scargill declaring another illegitimate strike the Coal board was receiving an additional £1.3b above income receipts from the government.
It was Major who finished them off in the 90s of which Mrs Thatcher saw it as a betrayal herself to the miners who carried on working in The Downing Street years.
keeping 3 Mio plus people unemployed is entirely Labors fault?
It wasn't the case at all that ' most people didn't like her policies'. It was that most people think what their shitty rag of a newspaper tells them to think. Those of us with our own brain knew she was amazing.