Spitting Image - All things Bright and Beautiful

[WorldNews92]

01:49 : Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, and Andy Burnham.

[mouseycou]

great ending LOL

[Sephirothwolf]

History lesson right here...

[joebstarsurfer]

another wedding for the plebs well done blighty.

[AidanLunn]

@joebstarsurfer This video is about former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, not the royal family.

[Kidsgrove49]

Next verse...........(anyone can play this)

The asteroids on Pluto

The craters on the moon

The killing of Cock Robin

Let's blame that on her too.......

[Kidsgrove49]

The public voted for Thatcher 3 times and in ever increasing numbers. Even when she went, they voted for her party - again! Spitting Image did much to promote her cause with unbalanced stuff like this. It WAS very funny, but utterly ineffective - and nobody bought it.

[Darkstar1484]

@Kidsgrove49 In fairness they also went after Kinnoch. It was more a matter of who was in power than any political thing I'd argue.

[AidanLunn]

@Kidsgrove49 Oh so that's why many people who were around at the time genuinely believed she ran the party the way she was seen to be running it in this? Considering the way she was, it's hardly surprising that they'd think that.

[Udany147]

@AidanLunn If anything, her depiction on Spitting Image actually gave people the idea that she was a strong leader who didn't take 'no' for an answer.

[AidanLunn]

@Udany147 She was a strong leader in the public's eyes even before Spitting Image started. SI just reinforced the image that she was an unresonable paranoid schizophrenic lunatic.

[duxk]

@Kidsgrove49 hardly: the tory vote moved around a bit for her but not by much:

1979 13.7 million, 1983 13.0 million, 1987 13.8 million, the problem was the opposition was so split the tories got in every time

[SirOneoneselfandone]

The big yuppie looks like farage

[JamesTilsley1]

she was a bitter, unsestive woman,, but she was right, she made us the country we are today, bitter medicine, but it makes you better

[QUEENno1fan]

Is that John Prescott at 0:49? Love this song.

[URhnsi35]

Not quite. That's the portly Minister for Health, Kenneth Clarke, who was frequently ridiculed for being a chain smoker and heavy drinker, despite his position in the cabinet.

[QUEENno1fan]

@URhnsi35 Oh right. Thanks. Looks a lot like John Prescott though. How the hell was that fat guy minister for health?

[AidanLunn]

@QUEENno1fan If you saw him in real life at the time, he wasn't very fat (unlike now). He was slightly podgy at most.

[AidanLunn]

@URhnsi35 He was secretary of state for health, not minister for health.

[URhnsi35]

@AidanLunn Oh, sorry! Wait, was that the position Edwina Curry occupied at one time?

[AidanLunn]

@URhnsi35 Yep, until she made her famous "eggs" comment.

[AidanLunn]

The bit with thatcher's exploding head at the end is probably my favourite single moment of Spitting Image :D

[xxxdarkmexxx]

who's the one that looks like an icecream?

[AndrewJimScott]

Duggie Hurd.

[AndrewJimScott]

Who finds Dug cute in this clip?

[Sparrowmaiden]

That was amazing. :D The whole Cabinet singing off-key was just perfect. So funny and yet so dark. Thanks for sharing this!

[andrewscottuk]

This is actually part of a reupload.

But only the last sketch.Original uploader tevs93 who's again still on youtube.