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  • Well, if it suks so bad, jack, how come she won an oscar?

  • @adenamarie15 because Hollywood is tired of allowing Meryl to lose. The script is horrendous

  • Well deserved 3rd Oscar!

  • What an absolute bag of shite this film looks. She'd have never worn a hat in parliament. This feminist icon thing is bollocks too. I think yanks should do a bit more research when making films on our political history

  • michael foot is uncanny

  • Bastard allah lost his 72 virgin goats and it is very horny.

  • This all seems far too exaggerated.

  • @WiseOwlOfGallifrey British Parliament is a hell of a thing. Check some videos of it in the 80's, this is a very accurate portrayal.

  • @MachShot1337 I am well aware of the history of the British Parliament, I mean things that she says seem too dramatic and the blatant contrast of costumes, I think the portrayal is a bit unconvincing.

  • Thatcher and Reagan neoliberalism went on disguised as labour and democratic party, deregulating and privatizing, leading to tragedies like the repeal of the Glass- Steagall, fire on California power lines (see enron doc "the smartest guy in the room") , the economic crisis and an all messed up world.

    There is something rotten in the kingdom of this world and its flag has a crown of thorns.

    Think about it.

  • @WiseOwlOfGallifrey

    I can not see your comment reply here from Brazil. We are censored down here and I'm having a heck of time.

    CNN international is coming adulterated, edited, I can not see the debates in USA from here and there are days It airs the same program all day.

    In the past few days things got fixed, but now it does not seem like so.

    This is a consequence of Mr Clinton dividing the internet in zones. We in Latin America can't see what people see in EU or USA

  • Fucking joke, they're trying to make Thatcher look like some feministic hero. Tell that to the millions of women who lost their jobs due to her cuts and privatizations..

  • @maxcommunist word the fuck up

  • @maxcommunist The USSR had a 1% unemployment as it was falling apart. Millions would have starved if not for the US, with a 5% unemployment rate, donating massive amounts of foreign aid. Jobs numbers aren't the goal, quality of life is, and you get that with fiscal conservatism.

  • @maxcommunist We could solve unemployment tomorrow by banning farm, equipment, but we'd have to go back to a quality of life equal to a time before we had farming equipment. If the privatization cost jobs, it is because too many people had jobs providing the good or service for it to be done in a sustainable manner. If we can provide a service that is of the same quality while making a profit that can be taxed, isn't that better for the people than doing it while losing a fortune?

  • @maxcommunist funny thing is she hated feminists.

  • It matters not how full of shit a historical figure is. What matters is how the actor manages to accurately portray it.

  • Margaret Thatcher was a socialist cosmopolitian and I cannot understand why any true conservative can support her. I miss Benjamin Disraeli

  • @ZimmermanHound

    Thatcher was not a socialist. That is a mistake to make such assumptions.

    Thatcher was a practitioner of free market economics.

    Conservatives of that era were appeasers of socialism were as thatcher was not.

  • @bighands69 She was not. She was a socialist. She did not abolish the welfare state. Did she. In fact, the welfare state was expanded during her regin. She was never for a free market. She was for a market that gave opportunity for the large corporations (that finance her career) and put regulations on small businesses. Thatcher was also responsible for identity politics (for minorities) and the rejection of assimilation. She was also the founder of the global warming hoax.

  • @ZimmermanHound

    1/1

    Thatcher did not abolish the welfare state as she was realistic about what could be achieved.

    There is absolutely no way in her term could she have phased out the welfare state.

    The problem is that it would require at least 10 to 15 years to phase out the welfare state and any government who would conduct such a program would not make it until the conclusion of such a program.

    Every time the conservatives make such a move labor just destroys it after wards.

  • @bighands69 1/1 Well, In my view there is no difference between conservatives, liberals and socialists. The old conservatives lost it when they rejected morals for materialism. Today, you are a "conservative" if you argue for global capitalism and a "bit" smaller welfare state. Nationalism, folk and cultural conservatism is today not a part of the mainstream conservative movement. Marxists see everything in economics and so do these post-modern conservatives.

  • @ZimmermanHound

    2/2

    You seem to lack the understanding of the political game that is being played and so far the socialist have been winning as they have a long term incremental prospective and the conservatives do not. Socialist now have a problem that they did not plan on and that is the market mechanisms that do not care about regulation and central economics.

    What is required is a conservative movement that has a long term plan and acts upon it. Thatcher was isolated in her actions.

  • @bighands69 I believe that a conservative movement have to reject the idea of an empire, reject the idea of neo-conservatism and protect the internal market. Even Disareli argued for protection for the internal market and the english people. Today, the elite argues that no protection of the indigenous people of England are necessary. A british citizen has today the same value as an non-citizien. UKIP is a conservative movement in some sense. The conservatives are not.

  • Vieja hija de una nave espacial rusa llena de puta.

  • pity she's not going to win the oscar like everytime she gets nominated, this performance raises the bar in acting

  • Meryl Streep is the Bette Davis of our time.

  • Margret Thatcher a great woman. Meryl can impersonate anyone. Truly a gifted actress.

  • How old do you have to be to watch this film 12 16 18?? is it okay for miners to watch?

  • @maidenstein ROFL. You win the award for best non-topical political pun of the century. Well done indeed.

  • shit film, miserable bitch

  • I just watched a few videos of Margaret Thatcher before watching this clip and it's amazing how Meryl Streep just nails it.

  • Ridiculous film. Shame on Streep for earning money out of this criminal's legacy.

  • @NarcissistsDie let me guess youre another irish bastard upset about your potatos?

    potato

  • @FadeToBlack888 Keep guessing.

  • @FadeToBlack888 How many potatoes does it take to kill an irishman?? NONE!

  • @FadeToBlack888 There's more to us irish than just potatoes, you racist twat. 

  • @Stephen15Donnelly yeah youre right there is more to the irish than just potatoes, theres also almost universal support for the provisional IRA, Nazi germany and blaming england for the irish people's history of failures such as the famine and now the bankcruptcy

  • @FadeToBlack888 Hmmm I don't seem to remember supporting the Nazis or the PIRA, in fact I don't seem to remember being born when a great deal of their activities were occurring. How about you stop attributing stereotypes to a group of people who you clearly do not have a single ounce of knowledge about?

  • Do we really need the Oscars as validation that Meryl is the most consistently talented actress around?

  • @elrynx2 Yes and no! We already know she is the most consistently talented.. but I think she deserves at least one more Oscar and should have been in that league, 3 Oscar Wins, a very long time ago.

  • @omorado

    She doesn't need awards...her talent and reputation are understood implicitly and universally. The Oscars are beneath her.

  • Pathetic compared to real performance of Thatcher.

  • this is her as education secretary--pre deep voice.

  • The 'Iain Davis Interviews Margaret Thatcher' interview is closer to the real thing than Meryl Streep's "interpretation". Check it out on You Tube.

  • thats awful, Meryl looks stupid and the voice is wrong, too

  • The accent is way over the top, even thatcher didn't speak that posh.

  • Just saw the movie (in the US) and it is outstanding. And sad at the end. What an amazing woman. The Western world no longer has a political spine like Thatcher. From the US, I salute her.

  • @Categorycinque It is very common for Americans to love Thatcher because they see her as an inspirational woman who fought against the unions for the greater good, and don't see the other side. But you don't understand why she had such a huge opposition. It's because she ruined millions of lives and communities. A lot of British people dislike her because they see the effects of her extreme policies every day in cities like Liverpool, that have been plunged into poverty and unemployment.

  • @camillaroseg You mislead deliberately. She did not 'ruin' (as you put it) millions of lives, she refused to allow the State to pander and support people who should support themselves. For example, there is very little work in my hometown (and hasn't been since steelworking stopped locally) but that is not the government's problem; it is up to me to move somewhere where there is work. And I have done, thank you, and I'm much better off.

  • @chikubichan You're contradicting basic economic concepts. She destroyed a whole industry. Generations of families grew up to work in the same (and might I add, profitable) mines as their fathers. By ending British manufacturing she made our economy reliant upon imports, seriously harming the economy by creating a huge trade deficit. On top of that, it made millions unemployed. These people cannot simply re-train and find other work in the knowledge sector - they spent their whole lives in the**

  • @camillaroseg **same job. People that have families to support can't simply move to a different city. Everything costs money. You're in a fortunate position, it's quite ignorant to assume that everyone else is in a similar situation. Even if I agreed with you, she STILL didn't achieve the one thing she was supposed to. All of these people need benefits until they find another job. But then it's extremely difficult to find another job, and so the circle begins - for whole communities.

  • @camillaroseg

    No, she was doing the right thing completely there. If you actually understoof economcis them you would realize that a country(britain in 1978/9 under labour) could simply not go on supporting jobs hundreds of thousands of jobs in and industry losing money... Labour was borrowing going into debt just to keep a completely uncompetitive industry alive, which even a communist would agree is stupid seeming as we would eventually go bankcrupt because of it.

  • @403766 You really don't know anything about me, so please don't try to patronise me or assume you know anything about my knowledge of Economics. You seem to be deliberately slandering Labour as if I'm arguing for it. I'm not Labour, I'm merely anti-Thatcher. However, I will point out that all parties of all governments of all parties borrow too much money, including the Conservatives. I think the situation here is a debate of what is more important - general economic well-being, or the**

  • @403766 **overall well-being of the population. I vote for the latter, and you evidently vote for the former. For this reason, I'm going to end this debate here, because we won't be able to get on each other's wavelength. Just please don't try to argue that we should thank Thatcher for reducing unemployment. Also, the most economically powerful country today is reliant on exports, not imports, and I disagree with your last point much more than your other points. But that's fine, let's agree to**

  • @403766 **disagree.

  • @camillaroseg

    Also there was a trade surplus at many points in the 80's. Fact, as well as the governement actually being able to pay its debts. Thatcher saved our country from labour ignorant vote-based way of handling our economy, and for that we should all thank her. Not to mention after the initial change unemplyment fell from around 3 mil to 2 mil so we have oly to thank her. Not to mention all first world countries are reliant on imports, which is good as they become

  • @camillaroseg

    affordable. Without thatcher our standard of living would be far far lower for all classes.

  • @chikubichan

    thatcher was a complete idiot, who poured the money into the least desrving sector- the financial services instead of helping the economy (which she brought to its knees) and people. and so you hate me even more, i'm a communist. shove that up your tory arse!

  • @Theorockz2

    No, you are clearly an ignorant moron and if you studied even for a year some as economics you would know that you arguement is compeltely wrong. Most of our money comes from finicial services into britain, which is a veyr good thing and trait of first world countries. What other sectors would have any benfit to britain other than to lose money tell me? She literally saved our economy. Now educate yourself and come back to me before voting next.

  • @403766

    the bankers were swell at the time. yes, you should always give money to the banks, but not as much as she did! unemployment levels reached rock bottom, rich got richer, poor got poorer. it was amazing; however, what she did, be the first women prime minister with two twins. i give her that. and in response to your question above, how about the health service?

  • @Theorockz2 She didn't 'pour money' into financial services, she deregulated them - it may have been the wrong policy but she didn't actively 'pour' the money in. Nor, contrary to what Camillaroseg thinks, did she 'destroy a whole industry'. She was certainly indifferent, you could say heartless, for not lifting a finger to help, but then again why should she, she was a politician. (And BTW I don't hate you!)

  • @chikubichan

    alrighty then. i'm just gonna end it here. bye

  • Michael Foot looks like Bernie Sanders...

  • Meryl Streep should win Oscar coz Helen Mirren won Oscar doin Queen, dis film same fing basicly lolz.

    etc.

  • @Oscy Their accents are similar, everything else is completely different..

  • I hope this film isn't pro thatcher because the tories are a joke amongst the educated, or anyone who has ever read things such as the leaflet in the 70's from the conservatives saying "If you want a nigger for a neighbor, vote liberal or labour".

    How could anyone want to be afiliated with a party that has done something like that?

  • @acledmaiden So you're black, right?

  • @acledmaiden I agree with you in that I am very anti-Conservative, but I will point out that you can't look at today's Conservative Party in the same way as in the 70s, because they are completely different. Both Labour and the Conservatives have much, much less radical policies now, and I highly doubt that there are many racist MPs left.

  • Just a little too much at 0:22

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  • Score 1 foe thatcher.

  • Legally Blonde 3: British Parliament

  • Truly a remarkable person

  • If Meryl doesn't win an Oscar for this, I'd kill myself...

  • @wanfranymuhtaddin Me too!

  • If she doesn't win, I'll punch a kitten, then slap a puppy, then scream at a baby seal, then kill everyone, THEN kill myself by ejecting myself from a cannon into the sun

  • @breeeegs Hahaha!!! Too funny! But man, she really really deserves an Oscar!

  • @breeeegs Best comment.

  • @wanfranymuhtaddin No, don't kill yourself. Let's kill the Oscar board/panel members.

  • Best Acting since Bruno Ganz in Downfall!!

  • This accurately shows Labours opposition to Thatcher. They are a joke and their 13 years in government proved it. I'm looking forward to this.

  • God shes amazing!! Meryl is just brilliant! I gotta see this!!

  • Yes...She is an amazing actress!

  • Ouch! I love the last bit! Can't wait to watch it in the cinema soon!

  • @stilettoz same

  • Great scene, indeed!

  • awesome accent!!

  • Awesome job Meryl, love you & your acting

  • Awesome job Meryl, love you & your work!!!

  • Well done. I love you, Meryl!

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