I can understand those who feel it's disrespectful of "The Iron Lady" to portray the Iron Lady in a state of Alzheimer's. But Streep's performance as Thatcher is incredible, and far more realistic than this. THis is a fine production here, but doesn't touch Streep.
Yes , she did the working class proud , 1.5 million unemployed in 1979 , 3.5 million by 1984 although this did drop to 1.8 by 1989 . So please tell me where this reduction of 1 million you speak of went . Also, just for the record the number of children living below the poverty line in 1990 , the year of her departure , stood at 28% , the highest in Europe . Wonderful lady
@alunhughes147 I reccommend the following book:`Chavs` `The Deminization of the Working Class` It is a most remarkable expose of conservative policy that, as you accurately state, was deliberate and implicit in the destruction of working class people and culture that is, today, responsible for the sorry state of many depressed communites and people of, what is now, UKPLC! It`s got to be one of the finest coups in UK history and we elected Cameron? RIP UK working class!
@8corporal Thanks , l will look up the book . The thing about Thatcher is that there is no middle ground , its love or hate , nothing else . We all know where @thatcheritescots opinions lie and of course l respect but do not agree with his views . His attempts to glorify the lron lady are admirable but as one of the old " enemies within " who suffered from her policies of the 80s l sometimes wonder what world he is living in . As of her 'State' funeral , l agree completely
@alunhughes147 Hi, thanks for your reply. I was only bor in 1970, thus did not fully inderstand then what was happening to the country, however, I know have a better understanding of the Tory policies of that era snd before and today (even under `New Labour`) that systematically dismantled UK industry and manufacuring and thus the working class of this once great nation and it still goes on. Shameful. The Specials song `Ghost Town` says it all and from that era!
@alunhughes147 When she dies, her `State` funeral should be tendered out to the cheapest bidder in the true spirit of free market policies! Quite a fitting end, wouldn`t you think?
@thatcheritescot A much better portrayal of Margaret than the rubbish 'The Iron Lady'. People hype up Streep's performance, but Duncan's here is breathtaking and measured as was Patricia Hodge in 'The Falklands Play'. Thank you so much for uploading, much appreciated.
@thatcheritescot@fuelban, Thatcheritescot, I don't know where you lived in the 80s but it's not the rosy one you have us seen depicted. Scots may not have starved in the 80s as in Ethiopia, but there was a lot of poverty. There were no jobs. There was little industry by 1988, as your hero did what she said she to destroy Scotland's industry. Why? She got little votes, and because of Willie McRae, who was an ardent voice of independent Scotland, Thatcher set out to make sure it wouldn't happen.
@thatcheritescot That's not what I said. Yes, Labour are as much responsible as anybody, but Thatcher made it abundantly clear she didn't want Scotland going independent. She was probably right, at that time England would fall financially given what was to come - Scotland would not survive. Willie McRae was found in a car crash, with a bullet wound behind his ear. Suicide only works if you're a contortionist? Murdered for what he had, documents never found in the car or anywhere
Wow, that was powerful. It seems to be a british failing to treat the great ones like Churchill, Disraeli and Thatcher like crap and to prefer mediocrities.
What was cool was that they had Cornielus Fudge there. Clueless as usual.
Her government were like asset strippers they sold everything off and left us with little else but financial services, which has really work out well hasn't it. She is no heroine, in fact I am still waiting for a decent government to come along that this country deserves. One that appreciates it's people and doesn't see us as low life scum to be lied to and fobbed off all the time.
@thatcheritescot Oh dear I must have hit a nerve if you have to reply in such a rude way!! In answer to your question I definity don't vote tory and I never will as I don't like supporting those that sport horns and a forked tail!!! And as for the country being much richer today because of Thatcher I think there are many in the North who would strongly disagree, if anyone is richer it is those that was already rich and I agree their bank balances expanded extensively during the Thatcher years!
@jsdh1978 i did not ask who u dont vote for. i asked who u vote for and surprise surprise u had no answer. so what is it then or do u not actually stand for anything?
@thatcheritescot Okay fine I generally vote Labour but got disallusioned by Blaire over the Iraq war and his puppy dog attitude to America and Bush so voted for the Green party, I think? So now what, well, do you think I am ashamed to be a Labour supporter?? I don't really see why you need to ask that question and be so confrontational. You post videos so you have to expect comments you won't agree with. I didn't insult you you insulted me by saying I talk rubbish so what's with the attitude?
@jsdh1978 ok. im sorry if u feel iv been insulting. i really dont mean to b... but i think that u r being unfair to thatcher... u talk about asset stripping the country and say it was a bad thing.... the fact is that in 1979 the uk was the 16th largest ecconomy... by the time thatcher left we were 4th.... we remained 4th untill well after 1997 when blair came in... we have since gone down to 8th or 9th
that fact means that even at 9th today.... we are still generating more money than in 1979
@thatcheritescot and because we generate more money than in 1979 that proves that even with stripping the assets, as u put it, the uk is still earning more money. more drs. more nurses, teachers, social workers etc etc
Not at all. Every single job she got rid off was being paid for by the tax payer, as well as borrowing money. Unemplyment actually fell by a million by the time she left office. Creating jobs that weren't losing money.
@thatcheritescot so am i to believe that u supported labour untill iraq? and does that mean u supported neil kinnock?
as for the green party... well which of their policys are u in favour of? i see no plan from them on how to get out of the mess we are in.
oh and before u blame thatcher for the mess just remember that it was gordon brown who borrowed more money than every brittish govt put together and he who bailed out the banks too
@thatcheritescot By the way you are relying to yourself so I don't get notified about these replies!!! I was too young to vote for Kinnock and I haven't voted for the Green partie since the recession so I don't know what their policies are. As for Kinnock if I had been old enough I'm sure I would have voted for him as the world around me, when I was growing up under the Thatcher Government, was a very depressing place and I would have hope for something better and fairer for people like me!
@thatcheritescot Well I can only talk from my point of view and from my experiences, that's what I meant by people like me, and we are all different as we are all individuals are we not?!
@jsdh1978 everyone got richer in the 80s. even if the poor did not have a job their benifits and conditions had never been better. it was not thatchers fault that u or i or anyone was poor
@thatcheritescot Thanks for the apology I appreciate it but I think we are never going to agree of the type of legacy this woman left so it's probably best to leave it at that :-).
@skydome29 Same here. How tragically ironic that she was totally right in her opinion of Europe. I hope the entire bloody cabinet feels that way! Because of their defection we ended up with Major who really ran the country into the ground and decided to make a u-turn on his own opinion once he was in power.
Far too emotional portrayal of her for my liking. Very much doubt she would have broke down in tears at cabinet ! She was the IRON LADY. Not an emotional school girl.
@adamps16 It's true - she did. That cabinet scene is pretty much a transcript of what was said and what happened. She was obviously upset when she left No 10 for the last time.
Well thanks for uploading this one! I've been looking for it for quite some time. Didn't know the name of the program, but I saw it on BBC television. Thanks!!!
@JustDiscoAr It goes by the title 'Margaret' - it comes in a box set with 'The Long Walk to Finchley' called ''The Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher - The Collection". It's on amazon for under £7 at the moment :)
Margaret Thatcher was a formidable woman, and whether you agree or disagree with her politics (and I do disagree with most of them), I think we can all agree on that. I am thoroughly impressed with her, though not very impressed with the woman who plays her in this movie lol
shocker147, admirer of that fucking cow, you should have been in Scotland starving with the rest of us for 20 yrs, you wouldn't be admiring that bitch then mister, she was the rat of rats in the last century, a true blood sucking fuck.
@fuelban starving? what a strange world u live in. so now scotland was starving was it? utter crap. im scottish and i can tell u that no one starved in the 80s. not a single person other than the food strikers. thats a fact. why dont u crawl back under the rock which u came from u unreasonable jaded little person!
@thatcheritescot yes, our social net work kept us on the bread line, it can hardly be classified as living, she created the largest unemployment line numbers in living memory, millions were on that bread line Millions, “As for the rock crawling”, Perhaps it was “YOU” who was under the rock, if you don’t recall these facts, or perhaps you are one of the elite one’s, One of the “We did not see that” !, “Therefore it did not happen” !, Yeh yeh yeh, heard it…. She was & is a cow. End of…
@fuelban get lost. your argument has now changed from people starving to millions being unemployed. so on the starving u r clearly wrong.
3 million was the peak of unemployment under thatcher. 2 million by the time she left. more jobs were created under her than any govt of the 60s or 70s.
and then u finish your comments with the immortal " shes a cow"
wow aint u been up all night thinking up a clear political argument. what a joke!
@thatcheritescot You are either complicit or too stupid to realise these occurrences, why don’t you remove your head from under the rock & view any news channel to see the rising dole numbers, A hall mark of Tory government & selling via privatisations of any country assets, you are evidently one of the {I’m alright fuck you merchants} … tell me all this shite in a year or two’s time, time will tell ….
@fuelban and u are a fool who thinks its ok to use foul language with no political points what so ever. so come on tell me? who do u think would have been better than thatcher? i cant wait to hear this. come on... put your money where your mouth is? who is your political savior?
If you did a year of as/a level economics and learned some more about what actually happened not just repeating hateful lies other people have said you would know that your arguement has literally no basis.
@MrTolleMolle uk industys could not compete... thats a fact. so thatcher changed our ecconomy.... the mess we are in now yes has some roots in the 80s. money became too easy to borrow.... but the real warning signs for this did not appear untill well into the blair years. thatcher cannot b blamed for all of it.
also gordon brown in 2 years borrowed more money than every uk govt over 400 years put together.... so please do not tell me that is all because of lack of industy.
@thatcheritescot "also gordon brown in 2 years borrowed more money than every uk govt over 400 years put together.... so please do not tell me that is all because of lack of industy. "
Because of Thatcher's ridiculous regulations, she got rid of the only part of the railways and steel industries that paid. She should have tried to help the industries not destroy the manafacturing base.
@MrTolleMolle thatchers privatisations have nothing to do with todays problems. those industrys were bady managed to the point that they needed to b shut down. all thatcher did was to bring them to that end.... and as u seem to b sticking up for gordon brown.... he himself would agree
@MrTolleMolle and when u say she destroyed industrys... can u give me an example of an industry, that mrs thatcher privatised or dismantled, that could compete? present day or in the 80s?
Was that a joke? Oh my good god please study economics even briefly and you will know that that is not even 1% the reason for our current economic climate. FACT, so please educate yourself you labour moron.
@403766 Labour Moron?- Just because i think thatcher was a complete idiot does not mean I am labour. Far from it in fact. Anyway, if we did have a sucessful industry base we would be recovering like Germany clearly is, repaying debt etc. Relying on the city and deregulation was the stupidest mistake by a British politician in the last 50 years.
@MrTolleMolle well perhaps u would like to tell me who u do support. lets see how your ideas stand up to argument? or do u just like to take shots without standing for anything yourself?
i do agree with some of what u say about germany though
@MrTolleMolle What industrial base?? You mean the one that was slowly committing suicide by constantly going on strike??? At that time the future was not in industry, it was in technology and it still is. Besides, how would industry get us out of this? Can Britain offer better products for less compared with every other country?? NO! If we tried that, wages would have to go down in order to make profit, the unions would get pissed off and go on strike as per usual...
@emma41093 The railways, the shipbuilding, the steel, the cars the industries that drove economic recovery during the 1950s and 60s ie the days of Macmillan.
@MrTolleMolle she got rid of the fake jobs and replaced them with rreal ones. oh and she was the only post war pm to actually turn a profit... and yes that profit was much larger than the value of all the privatisations put together. u are ill informed
@thatcheritescot "real jobs" errr thatcher sold off all the north sea oil. I didn't see any of the benefit of that. Look at the position of the norwegians now, much better than ours. If only thatcher had had some of there wisdom.
@MrTolleMolle no... once again u r not using facts. north sea oil brought in ten% of gdp during the 80s and it still does. so wrong again. do u ever tell the truth? or are u just too lazy to study facts?
@thatcheritescot ah would that it were, would that it were. and guess were that money has gone in to bailing out the banks due to thatchers shitty deregulation.
@MrTolleMolle so now u r skipping that issue having been defeated now u ask about bank deregulation... well there is some good point there... however if thatcherism was used fully the bank would have gone out of business and not been bailed out.
if u r suggesting that thatcher is responsible for probllems 30 years later then u r very wrong. and who was it that bailed out the banks?
who do u support? or r u just another fool that likes to criticise others without having a plan of your own?
@thatcheritescot I dont support any modern politicians, I disagree with you on pretty much everything as you are clearly wrong. Saying I have no plan, thats just silly.
@fuelban My mother shares your opinion - like most Scots who were there at the time - but even she admits she'd rather her Thatcher back in power than any other leader that's up for grabs right now. In principle her policies - like the poll tax - were fair, sadly some were not in practise. Hate her all you want but what you saw was what you got, she stood firm and saw things through rather than shy away from them. She had to be a bitch in order to survive.
Aren't we glad we have Thatcheritescot. I'd hardly know Margaret Thatcher without his videos. It's good to know a Scot that likes her. That's if you are Scottish?
"And we were talking to Brian Mulroney, the Canadian Prime Minister..." "He was saying in his country they put up statues to men who lose 3 elections." LOLOLOL its so true. God I love my country. God bless Her Majesty the Queen, and her best First Minister Margaret Thatcher. Love from the Dominion of Canada.
@gbtrat it rings true to me. there are many many storys of ted heath being rude to lots of people. his own advisers were driven mad by his lack of manners at times. he was well known for sulking too
@gbtrat Heath He was well known for his rudeness and coldness but he did deny saying "you'll lose" when Thatcher told him she was going to stand against him.
@aeronuk1 he did deny it yes. however thatcher wrote in her book that he did. its clear that he did not like mrs thatcher at all. i have seen interviews with him in which he refuses to even talk about it or mrs thatcher.... i know who i believe.
heath also witnessed govt papers being burned in an attempt to cover up the suez scandel..... he later refused to have an opinion on that either.
@thatcheritescot You're probably right, Thatcher wasn't known for being dishonest and I never liked or trusted Heath, he was never a real conservative.
Do you know what Heath was trying to cover up about the Sues scandel?
@aeronuk1 i cant remember exactly but there were govt documents that proved the eden govt had lied about the reasons for going to war. the prime minister at the time, anthony eden, had ordered the cabinet secretary to burn the papers. heath was in the room when they were burnt.
later when it was brought to light heath refused to comment on it... right up till he died.
I am an uneducated Japanese of humble means but I would like to ask a question. I was reading her memoir and I got the strong feeling that she was cut off from some key figures on Poll Tax. If she was well informed of the consequence of its introduction, she would not have gone for it. Would you agree with this assessment?
@RoyalistUK Your lucky! I've been waiting for this to be released in the United States for a long while now.....even got Netflix on it....not available in region 1 (US) only region (2)
Haha the guy playing Major plays him like HAL from 2001 !
shmoker2010 5 hours ago
I can understand those who feel it's disrespectful of "The Iron Lady" to portray the Iron Lady in a state of Alzheimer's. But Streep's performance as Thatcher is incredible, and far more realistic than this. THis is a fine production here, but doesn't touch Streep.
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karezza6 1 week ago
Major looks creepy and evil in this.
76kitt 2 weeks ago
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All of them are evil creeps. All of them!
MENSFORTHHILL99 2 days ago
portrays maggie as a evil witch, I dont think she was like that :(
panzerelite195 2 weeks ago
Yes , she did the working class proud , 1.5 million unemployed in 1979 , 3.5 million by 1984 although this did drop to 1.8 by 1989 . So please tell me where this reduction of 1 million you speak of went . Also, just for the record the number of children living below the poverty line in 1990 , the year of her departure , stood at 28% , the highest in Europe . Wonderful lady
alunhughes147 1 month ago
@alunhughes147 I reccommend the following book:`Chavs` `The Deminization of the Working Class` It is a most remarkable expose of conservative policy that, as you accurately state, was deliberate and implicit in the destruction of working class people and culture that is, today, responsible for the sorry state of many depressed communites and people of, what is now, UKPLC! It`s got to be one of the finest coups in UK history and we elected Cameron? RIP UK working class!
8corporal 3 weeks ago
@8corporal Thanks , l will look up the book . The thing about Thatcher is that there is no middle ground , its love or hate , nothing else . We all know where @thatcheritescots opinions lie and of course l respect but do not agree with his views . His attempts to glorify the lron lady are admirable but as one of the old " enemies within " who suffered from her policies of the 80s l sometimes wonder what world he is living in . As of her 'State' funeral , l agree completely
alunhughes147 3 weeks ago
@alunhughes147 Hi, thanks for your reply. I was only bor in 1970, thus did not fully inderstand then what was happening to the country, however, I know have a better understanding of the Tory policies of that era snd before and today (even under `New Labour`) that systematically dismantled UK industry and manufacuring and thus the working class of this once great nation and it still goes on. Shameful. The Specials song `Ghost Town` says it all and from that era!
8corporal 3 weeks ago
@alunhughes147 When she dies, her `State` funeral should be tendered out to the cheapest bidder in the true spirit of free market policies! Quite a fitting end, wouldn`t you think?
8corporal 3 weeks ago
How did you upload a 1 hour and 51 minute clip?
The1985Channel 1 month ago 5
@The1985Channel my channel is allowed longer vids
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot A much better portrayal of Margaret than the rubbish 'The Iron Lady'. People hype up Streep's performance, but Duncan's here is breathtaking and measured as was Patricia Hodge in 'The Falklands Play'. Thank you so much for uploading, much appreciated.
pennypacker555 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
@pennypacker555 i very much agree. though to b fair to streep it was the script that was wrong... not her performance
thatcheritescot 1 week ago
@pennypacker555 The Iron Lady is a dull movie but Streep still delivers a magnificent performance. You can't deny that.
Neuroneos 15 hours ago
@thatcheritescot @fuelban, Thatcheritescot, I don't know where you lived in the 80s but it's not the rosy one you have us seen depicted. Scots may not have starved in the 80s as in Ethiopia, but there was a lot of poverty. There were no jobs. There was little industry by 1988, as your hero did what she said she to destroy Scotland's industry. Why? She got little votes, and because of Willie McRae, who was an ardent voice of independent Scotland, Thatcher set out to make sure it wouldn't happen.
DJColzz 1 month ago
@DJColzz half of glasgow is unemployed today. so dont tell me it was all in the 80s
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot That's not what I said. Yes, Labour are as much responsible as anybody, but Thatcher made it abundantly clear she didn't want Scotland going independent. She was probably right, at that time England would fall financially given what was to come - Scotland would not survive. Willie McRae was found in a car crash, with a bullet wound behind his ear. Suicide only works if you're a contortionist? Murdered for what he had, documents never found in the car or anywhere
DJColzz 1 month ago
l suppose that depends of the fence your sitting on
alunhughes147 1 month ago
Wow, that was powerful. It seems to be a british failing to treat the great ones like Churchill, Disraeli and Thatcher like crap and to prefer mediocrities.
What was cool was that they had Cornielus Fudge there. Clueless as usual.
zoodensha 1 month ago
Her government were like asset strippers they sold everything off and left us with little else but financial services, which has really work out well hasn't it. She is no heroine, in fact I am still waiting for a decent government to come along that this country deserves. One that appreciates it's people and doesn't see us as low life scum to be lied to and fobbed off all the time.
jsdh1978 1 month ago
@jsdh1978 you talk so much rubbish. and who do u vote for? whats your big idea?
and dont forget that the uk is still richer today than it was pre thatcher.
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot Oh dear I must have hit a nerve if you have to reply in such a rude way!! In answer to your question I definity don't vote tory and I never will as I don't like supporting those that sport horns and a forked tail!!! And as for the country being much richer today because of Thatcher I think there are many in the North who would strongly disagree, if anyone is richer it is those that was already rich and I agree their bank balances expanded extensively during the Thatcher years!
jsdh1978 1 month ago
@jsdh1978 i did not ask who u dont vote for. i asked who u vote for and surprise surprise u had no answer. so what is it then or do u not actually stand for anything?
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot Okay fine I generally vote Labour but got disallusioned by Blaire over the Iraq war and his puppy dog attitude to America and Bush so voted for the Green party, I think? So now what, well, do you think I am ashamed to be a Labour supporter?? I don't really see why you need to ask that question and be so confrontational. You post videos so you have to expect comments you won't agree with. I didn't insult you you insulted me by saying I talk rubbish so what's with the attitude?
jsdh1978 1 month ago
@jsdh1978 ok. im sorry if u feel iv been insulting. i really dont mean to b... but i think that u r being unfair to thatcher... u talk about asset stripping the country and say it was a bad thing.... the fact is that in 1979 the uk was the 16th largest ecconomy... by the time thatcher left we were 4th.... we remained 4th untill well after 1997 when blair came in... we have since gone down to 8th or 9th
that fact means that even at 9th today.... we are still generating more money than in 1979
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot and because we generate more money than in 1979 that proves that even with stripping the assets, as u put it, the uk is still earning more money. more drs. more nurses, teachers, social workers etc etc
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot Having 'more' social workers is not an advancement of society , opposite in fact
alunhughes147 1 month ago
@alunhughes147 i agree. i hate social workers.. my point was that they can only b paid for from taxes of real jobs
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot Was'nt one of Margret Thatchers legacys the decimation of hundreds of thousands of real jobs .
alunhughes147 1 month ago
@alunhughes147 any short study of the 80s would prove that not to b true
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@alunhughes147
Not at all. Every single job she got rid off was being paid for by the tax payer, as well as borrowing money. Unemplyment actually fell by a million by the time she left office. Creating jobs that weren't losing money.
403766 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot so am i to believe that u supported labour untill iraq? and does that mean u supported neil kinnock?
as for the green party... well which of their policys are u in favour of? i see no plan from them on how to get out of the mess we are in.
oh and before u blame thatcher for the mess just remember that it was gordon brown who borrowed more money than every brittish govt put together and he who bailed out the banks too
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot By the way you are relying to yourself so I don't get notified about these replies!!! I was too young to vote for Kinnock and I haven't voted for the Green partie since the recession so I don't know what their policies are. As for Kinnock if I had been old enough I'm sure I would have voted for him as the world around me, when I was growing up under the Thatcher Government, was a very depressing place and I would have hope for something better and fairer for people like me!
jsdh1978 1 month ago
@jsdh1978 fairer for people like you? im sorry but u r no different to anyone else
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot Well I can only talk from my point of view and from my experiences, that's what I meant by people like me, and we are all different as we are all individuals are we not?!
jsdh1978 1 month ago
@jsdh1978 everyone got richer in the 80s. even if the poor did not have a job their benifits and conditions had never been better. it was not thatchers fault that u or i or anyone was poor
thatcheritescot 1 month ago 5
@thatcheritescot Thanks for the apology I appreciate it but I think we are never going to agree of the type of legacy this woman left so it's probably best to leave it at that :-).
jsdh1978 1 month ago
She looks like Queen Elizabeth I in the first scene getting ready to chop Wally Raleigh.
zoodensha 1 month ago
Holy Shit! Was that Ian McDiarmid?
jolorulz 1 month ago
07;40 Hmmmmm I reckon she saw very clearly the dangers ahead with our relationship with Europe. She called it right.
wasabimanic 1 month ago
Fantastic - just goes to show, there is no loyalty. Even to Britain's greatest PM by her own party. God Bless you Maggie.
perfboi69 1 month ago
I wonder if Geoffery Howe still thinks the UK should have joined the EU? I hope he feels like an idiot now.
skydome29 1 month ago
@skydome29 Same here. How tragically ironic that she was totally right in her opinion of Europe. I hope the entire bloody cabinet feels that way! Because of their defection we ended up with Major who really ran the country into the ground and decided to make a u-turn on his own opinion once he was in power.
emma41093 1 month ago
Far too emotional portrayal of her for my liking. Very much doubt she would have broke down in tears at cabinet ! She was the IRON LADY. Not an emotional school girl.
adamps16 1 month ago
@adamps16 she did actually break down in cabinet in real life
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@adamps16 It's true - she did. That cabinet scene is pretty much a transcript of what was said and what happened. She was obviously upset when she left No 10 for the last time.
emma41093 1 month ago
Well thanks for uploading this one! I've been looking for it for quite some time. Didn't know the name of the program, but I saw it on BBC television. Thanks!!!
JustDiscoAr 1 month ago
@JustDiscoAr It goes by the title 'Margaret' - it comes in a box set with 'The Long Walk to Finchley' called ''The Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher - The Collection". It's on amazon for under £7 at the moment :)
emma41093 1 month ago
@emma41093 Well thank you!!! I knew that the BBC broadcasted another program on Maggie right after this one.
JustDiscoAr 1 month ago
Margaret Thatcher was a formidable woman, and whether you agree or disagree with her politics (and I do disagree with most of them), I think we can all agree on that. I am thoroughly impressed with her, though not very impressed with the woman who plays her in this movie lol
andrewrussell2410 1 month ago
shocker147, admirer of that fucking cow, you should have been in Scotland starving with the rest of us for 20 yrs, you wouldn't be admiring that bitch then mister, she was the rat of rats in the last century, a true blood sucking fuck.
Thom in Scotland.
fuelban 1 month ago
@fuelban starving? what a strange world u live in. so now scotland was starving was it? utter crap. im scottish and i can tell u that no one starved in the 80s. not a single person other than the food strikers. thats a fact. why dont u crawl back under the rock which u came from u unreasonable jaded little person!
thatcheritescot 1 month ago 7
@thatcheritescot yes, our social net work kept us on the bread line, it can hardly be classified as living, she created the largest unemployment line numbers in living memory, millions were on that bread line Millions, “As for the rock crawling”, Perhaps it was “YOU” who was under the rock, if you don’t recall these facts, or perhaps you are one of the elite one’s, One of the “We did not see that” !, “Therefore it did not happen” !, Yeh yeh yeh, heard it…. She was & is a cow. End of…
thom
fuelban 1 month ago
@fuelban get lost. your argument has now changed from people starving to millions being unemployed. so on the starving u r clearly wrong.
3 million was the peak of unemployment under thatcher. 2 million by the time she left. more jobs were created under her than any govt of the 60s or 70s.
and then u finish your comments with the immortal " shes a cow"
wow aint u been up all night thinking up a clear political argument. what a joke!
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot You are either complicit or too stupid to realise these occurrences, why don’t you remove your head from under the rock & view any news channel to see the rising dole numbers, A hall mark of Tory government & selling via privatisations of any country assets, you are evidently one of the {I’m alright fuck you merchants} … tell me all this shite in a year or two’s time, time will tell ….
fuelban 1 month ago
@fuelban and u are a fool who thinks its ok to use foul language with no political points what so ever. so come on tell me? who do u think would have been better than thatcher? i cant wait to hear this. come on... put your money where your mouth is? who is your political savior?
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@fuelban
If you did a year of as/a level economics and learned some more about what actually happened not just repeating hateful lies other people have said you would know that your arguement has literally no basis.
403766 1 month ago
@403766 here, here!
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot thatcher took unemployment from 3 million to 2 million as well as paying off our debts. just name me a govt that has done that?
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot She destroyed our industrial base, thats the reason we can't get out of the current mess
MrTolleMolle 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle uk industys could not compete... thats a fact. so thatcher changed our ecconomy.... the mess we are in now yes has some roots in the 80s. money became too easy to borrow.... but the real warning signs for this did not appear untill well into the blair years. thatcher cannot b blamed for all of it.
also gordon brown in 2 years borrowed more money than every uk govt over 400 years put together.... so please do not tell me that is all because of lack of industy.
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot "also gordon brown in 2 years borrowed more money than every uk govt over 400 years put together.... so please do not tell me that is all because of lack of industy. "
Because of Thatcher's ridiculous regulations, she got rid of the only part of the railways and steel industries that paid. She should have tried to help the industries not destroy the manafacturing base.
MrTolleMolle 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle thatchers privatisations have nothing to do with todays problems. those industrys were bady managed to the point that they needed to b shut down. all thatcher did was to bring them to that end.... and as u seem to b sticking up for gordon brown.... he himself would agree
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle and when u say she destroyed industrys... can u give me an example of an industry, that mrs thatcher privatised or dismantled, that could compete? present day or in the 80s?
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle
Was that a joke? Oh my good god please study economics even briefly and you will know that that is not even 1% the reason for our current economic climate. FACT, so please educate yourself you labour moron.
403766 1 month ago
@403766 Labour Moron?- Just because i think thatcher was a complete idiot does not mean I am labour. Far from it in fact. Anyway, if we did have a sucessful industry base we would be recovering like Germany clearly is, repaying debt etc. Relying on the city and deregulation was the stupidest mistake by a British politician in the last 50 years.
MrTolleMolle 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle well perhaps u would like to tell me who u do support. lets see how your ideas stand up to argument? or do u just like to take shots without standing for anything yourself?
i do agree with some of what u say about germany though
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle What industrial base?? You mean the one that was slowly committing suicide by constantly going on strike??? At that time the future was not in industry, it was in technology and it still is. Besides, how would industry get us out of this? Can Britain offer better products for less compared with every other country?? NO! If we tried that, wages would have to go down in order to make profit, the unions would get pissed off and go on strike as per usual...
emma41093 1 month ago
@emma41093 The railways, the shipbuilding, the steel, the cars the industries that drove economic recovery during the 1950s and 60s ie the days of Macmillan.
MrTolleMolle 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle oh yes. the failed post was socialist policys that lead the uk to near death. every post war pm was an idiot untill thatcher
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot That is a complete load of crap, thatcher used privatisation as a means of income, that is idiocy.
MrTolleMolle 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle she got rid of the fake jobs and replaced them with rreal ones. oh and she was the only post war pm to actually turn a profit... and yes that profit was much larger than the value of all the privatisations put together. u are ill informed
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot "real jobs" errr thatcher sold off all the north sea oil. I didn't see any of the benefit of that. Look at the position of the norwegians now, much better than ours. If only thatcher had had some of there wisdom.
MrTolleMolle 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle no... once again u r not using facts. north sea oil brought in ten% of gdp during the 80s and it still does. so wrong again. do u ever tell the truth? or are u just too lazy to study facts?
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot ah would that it were, would that it were. and guess were that money has gone in to bailing out the banks due to thatchers shitty deregulation.
MrTolleMolle 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle so now u r skipping that issue having been defeated now u ask about bank deregulation... well there is some good point there... however if thatcherism was used fully the bank would have gone out of business and not been bailed out.
if u r suggesting that thatcher is responsible for probllems 30 years later then u r very wrong. and who was it that bailed out the banks?
who do u support? or r u just another fool that likes to criticise others without having a plan of your own?
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot I dont support any modern politicians, I disagree with you on pretty much everything as you are clearly wrong. Saying I have no plan, thats just silly.
MrTolleMolle 1 month ago
@MrTolleMolle so u support nothing and no one. u r just a one man show. thatcher had many followers and did better than idiots like u ever will.
so u hate thatcher but u have no alternative? how weak u must b
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@fuelban My mother shares your opinion - like most Scots who were there at the time - but even she admits she'd rather her Thatcher back in power than any other leader that's up for grabs right now. In principle her policies - like the poll tax - were fair, sadly some were not in practise. Hate her all you want but what you saw was what you got, she stood firm and saw things through rather than shy away from them. She had to be a bitch in order to survive.
emma41093 1 month ago
@fuelban i see you are still too gutless to answer my question about who u support.
you are just another idiot who likes to criticise without actually having a plan of his own. thats worse than even being a socialist!
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
Many thanks to Thatcheritescot for these videos. I'm a Thatcher admirer from the US. I've read all her books. I appreciate these videos!
shocker147 1 month ago
It really shows John Major's betrayal
qwertyuiopqwerty112 1 month ago
i see thatcheitescot is up to his old tricks again, making maggie look good, after almost 20 years since she left number 10!!!
you wont get away with it!!
not for long anyway.. prepare for war thatcheritescot!!
maggiesucks1 1 month ago
what a load of wank!!
maggiesucks1 1 month ago
@maggiesucks1 lol i was wondering where u had gone
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
Aren't we glad we have Thatcheritescot. I'd hardly know Margaret Thatcher without his videos. It's good to know a Scot that likes her. That's if you are Scottish?
EarlOfGrantham 1 month ago 11
@EarlOfGrantham i am scottish yes
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
"And we were talking to Brian Mulroney, the Canadian Prime Minister..." "He was saying in his country they put up statues to men who lose 3 elections." LOLOLOL its so true. God I love my country. God bless Her Majesty the Queen, and her best First Minister Margaret Thatcher. Love from the Dominion of Canada.
Cnd1867 1 month ago
Thank you for posting this. But I have to say I was boiling mad by the time I finished watching it!
gbtrat 1 month ago
That scene with Ted Heath doesn't ring true. He doesn't strike me as the type that would be so disrespectful.
gbtrat 1 month ago
@gbtrat it rings true to me. there are many many storys of ted heath being rude to lots of people. his own advisers were driven mad by his lack of manners at times. he was well known for sulking too
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@gbtrat Heath He was well known for his rudeness and coldness but he did deny saying "you'll lose" when Thatcher told him she was going to stand against him.
aeronuk1 1 month ago
@aeronuk1 he did deny it yes. however thatcher wrote in her book that he did. its clear that he did not like mrs thatcher at all. i have seen interviews with him in which he refuses to even talk about it or mrs thatcher.... i know who i believe.
heath also witnessed govt papers being burned in an attempt to cover up the suez scandel..... he later refused to have an opinion on that either.
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
@thatcheritescot You're probably right, Thatcher wasn't known for being dishonest and I never liked or trusted Heath, he was never a real conservative.
Do you know what Heath was trying to cover up about the Sues scandel?
aeronuk1 1 month ago
@aeronuk1 i cant remember exactly but there were govt documents that proved the eden govt had lied about the reasons for going to war. the prime minister at the time, anthony eden, had ordered the cabinet secretary to burn the papers. heath was in the room when they were burnt.
later when it was brought to light heath refused to comment on it... right up till he died.
thatcheritescot 1 month ago
I have to say, I think the actor playing Michael Heseltine is a dead ringer for the little snake!
gbtrat 1 month ago
@gbtrat Richard E Grant is amazing as Heseltine in The Iron Lady :)
emma41093 1 month ago
What a bunch of cowardly bastards they were,stabbing her in the back
markabba 1 month ago
I am an uneducated Japanese of humble means but I would like to ask a question. I was reading her memoir and I got the strong feeling that she was cut off from some key figures on Poll Tax. If she was well informed of the consequence of its introduction, she would not have gone for it. Would you agree with this assessment?
tnakai1971jp 1 month ago
@tnakai1971jp These memoirs, what is it called? Or is it 'Margaret Thatcher' by John Campbell?
EarlOfGrantham 1 month ago
fantastic movie. 2 thumbs up. keep up the good work
MrLeithal 1 month ago
The Michael Haseltine character in this film is HILARIOUS. Total cartoon villain.
JonathanxRex 1 month ago
Casting is not the best!
arranle 2 months ago
This documentary shows the brutality, and backstabbing of Margaret Thatchers cabinet better than any other I have seen.
american2015 2 months ago
I rent it on DVD few days ago, i enjoyed it.
RoyalistUK 2 months ago
@RoyalistUK Your lucky! I've been waiting for this to be released in the United States for a long while now.....even got Netflix on it....not available in region 1 (US) only region (2)
american2015 2 months ago
She was far better than the PM's that have followed.
drwhodalek1a 3 months ago
I have been looking for this for ages! Keep it up Thatcheritescot!
ADMERALSMITH 3 months ago 10
@ADMERALSMITH glad to help. more soon!
thatcheritescot 3 months ago