A lot of people don't have any respect of maggie and I can see there reasoning but in all fairness she did get us through one of the most daunting times in human existence...
I'll always vote Conservative before anything else. Because at least a Conservative has balls and the strength of their convictions. They won't stand for our enemies to stand in our midst fermenting dissent, they'll be willing to fight whereas Labour is traditionally fixated on compromise - even at the sake of our collective dignity.
I will never vote for a party that defends the very people who want to destroy the country itself.
@IRNBRU64 - Oh really, now take douring Thatcher's reign that the average GDI index rose by ca. 80% inflation adjusted, but then again, just like every other labour supporter you have no grip of economics at all.
this reminds me whenever there has been a conservative elected within the past half a century al thats happened is useless cuts and even more useless riots!
@Pamsarker there isn't a Conservative government now they fell 20 seats short in 2010. there is a Tory-led government. the Conservatives haven't won an election since 1992 - 19 years ago.
@goffer43 It's a good idea - but the thing is, if spitting image returned now, it would give 'call me Dave' some character - which he frankly doesn't have. Bear in mind, whilst derogatory - Spitting Image presented Thatcher as the 'Iron Lady' - before that she was just a housewife, just as how Cameron is currently just another Etonion Schoolboy, described as a 'lightweight' by most political analysts.
However if he gets another term in office when his current tenure is up, then IT'S ON!
@banjokitten The thing about modern politics is how bland it is. Cameron hasn't done anything as outrageous as having police twat the shit out of striking miners and innocent hippies to come close to the level of ridicule the Thatchist regime deserved.
@SnakeOnAPlane Exactly - and as long as he has no charisma like this, he doesn't stand a chance at the next election, because everybody is just going to remember him by that stage as the man who made a load of cuts, didn't address any of the big issues in the UK properly, but as soon as Libya happened, flew over there to do business as soon as possible. Makes me wonder what business deals he's hiding...but hey ho - he's still better than having Thatcher MkII.
To all of you who are quite obviously Brown Nosing her, Im guessing you did not live through or had any 1st hand experience of her wrath! I whole heartedly support my fathers beliefs of Striking & Not Breaking the Picket Line! Times were hard but never ever let go of what you believe in! She should have a very guilty conscience & I for 1 hope it eats away @ her every day!
do people realises this is satire, its taking the p*** out of her and not supposed to be good, its satire its supposed to show the truth about the current affairs while making light of it and you people don't understand that i don't know why
Once we cut through the Maggie love-fest,can we please remember how she crippled this once great nation?! Hope her conscience pricks her every single day of her miserable life,what's left of it!
@popazz1 Conscience? What is that? She lost hers, and much more. Oh well, final heavenly justice sometimes arrives before death. I am not British, but I do remember coming over to Britain many times during her "reign" the mood of the people.
My mistake,lol.Yes,you're right she clearly didn't/doesn't have a conscience.As for 'heavenly justice',if such a 'state' exisists then it would follow that an alternative exists in the form of Hell,so surely she will be consigned there,if there's a God & he's feeling particularly vengeful,lol.
Thatcher didn't cause the problems in the North/Scotland/Wales. The Nationalised industries were closed because the work was so shoddy and the products were less cost effective than overseers alternatives. They should have been closed much earlier but the Labour government wouldn't risk losing their core support.
20 years from now. We'll be watching a similar sketch about Cameron. We'll be watching one about Clegg 4 years from now. After he and the fib-dems get slaughtered at the next GE.
I know this series has some very scary looking puppets but I think its one that will live on and its some think they has to do agen and take the pee out of the modon government and famous people.
Hurrah for Thatcher and free trade. Sure, some folks got wipd out with the end of protectionism, but who cares? Nobody gives a fuck what you think, if I have the money, I'll spend it any way I like.
bloody hell, i dont care how left wing you are, she is NOT evil, if you think she was a bad primeminister, then thats it, it does NOT make her an evil cow, and she doesn't deserver to die either, tell you what if you could do a better job than all these people you rip on all the time, then why don't you take power for yourself and do a lot worse of a job or actually get involved with the political system!
@dragonwar524 I myself dislike Thatcherism and disagree with many of her decisions, but I do agree that sometimes the hate people heap on her is disgusting.
@gwj222 she is one of the greatest and strongest polotions in history she went head long n front of the europian goverment. she stood up to russia and she helped this countrie out of some of it worst times, yeh, se made some mistakes but she stood by them and in the long run has helped lots of people..
"It truly was fortunate to have three such remarkable individuals as Reagan, Thatcher, and Pope John Paul together at the same critica point in history.
Without them, we would not have survived and won the Cold War against external totalitarianism. Much like Churchill in WWII."
Thatcher was made into a star with spitting image! Truly one of the best prime ministers of the modern times! the show may have mocked her but it just made her all more loved for me!
I wouldn't call it sad... hell, from a neutral point of view this sketch actually looks like it's congratulating Maggie on her 10 years... and let's face it, if it wasn't for Maggie Spitting Image would have no major target to rip on
I heard that this was supposed to be one of the "last" episodes made... note that loads of series are referred to that though (84, 85, 89) etc.
The "go now" song is, for the bit at the end when she walks into a deserted House of Commons, takes her seat on the second bench and bursts into tears. whatever your politicial opinions she didn't deserve what those bastards (the Tory parliamentary party) did to her in 1990.
That's the difference between tory and labour MP's, the Tory's knew a big loss was coming unless they got rid of her and they did, labour know they are gonna struggle with brown but don't have the spine to get rid of him. Labour have about enough spine to stop themselves slouching the the commons.
@GeeGee3374 I know I like to blame everything on Maggie Thatcher, as do many of the people in Yorkshire, but I suppose it is unfair to blame her entirely, after all, these things wouldn't have happened if she didn't have the people in the house of commons supporting her, not to mention I doubt everything that happened was her idea, but I suppose we blame her as she didn't try to stop any of it but supported it.
@Txeph7 I assure you I don't. We Ruined The World was a parody of What A Wonderful World, other haves referred to We Ruined The World incorrectly as the banned sketch, but that was Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
@MrL3onidas You right, I just assumed that was the one you said, still great sketch, you know I was born in 1987, and although i never experienced the 80s, I think spitting image is genious and there was something really charismtatic about thatcher
why are there so many tories on youtube?
dalektaliban 2 days ago
This. Has just made my life. I love Margaret Thatcher and this is just so funny!! XD
Littlemonsterwss94 1 week ago
lol
MsSera21 2 weeks ago
I had nightmares getting attacked by these cunts when i was a kid because they look like bloody monsters!
TallaghtMan1 3 weeks ago
She wasn't malleable to the group/mob dynamics of the left. An iron lady indeed.
MaidenUtah1 1 month ago 7
A lot of people don't have any respect of maggie and I can see there reasoning but in all fairness she did get us through one of the most daunting times in human existence...
kosmos9907 2 months ago 2
It's true that Thatcher did things her way; which also happen to be the best way for things to be done.
GodSavetheQueenER 2 months ago 2
I've never been this toasted.
skywize 2 months ago
There is going to be a party soon... soon...
tombeareatscake 2 months ago
spit in image was classic
MAD3IN3NG1AND 2 months ago
burn in hell as soon as possible thatcher ASAP
doingitnowoncemore 2 months ago
I'll always vote Conservative before anything else. Because at least a Conservative has balls and the strength of their convictions. They won't stand for our enemies to stand in our midst fermenting dissent, they'll be willing to fight whereas Labour is traditionally fixated on compromise - even at the sake of our collective dignity.
I will never vote for a party that defends the very people who want to destroy the country itself.
louthegiantcookie 2 months ago
Maggie was the man.....
a1mdwpr 3 months ago 3
@IRNBRU64 - Oh really, now take douring Thatcher's reign that the average GDI index rose by ca. 80% inflation adjusted, but then again, just like every other labour supporter you have no grip of economics at all.
ubulunikum 3 months ago
this reminds me whenever there has been a conservative elected within the past half a century al thats happened is useless cuts and even more useless riots!
IRNBRU64 4 months ago
you can't kill Maggie Thatcher, she's a one of those undead
TheTomhamilton8 4 months ago
We need another maggie to fix the country after what blair and brown did to it. The warcriminal and the imcompiedent fool
wisedeadman 5 months ago
@wisedeadman
How many tories voted against the Iraq war then??
New Labour spent 13 years trying to "Out Thatcher" Thatcher.
That's why we're in a mess!
Coneheadedweasel 4 months ago 3
@Coneheadedweasel i suppose you forgot when the torys went boom and bust back under john major
TheJaaysog 3 months ago
@Pamsarker there isn't a Conservative government now they fell 20 seats short in 2010. there is a Tory-led government. the Conservatives haven't won an election since 1992 - 19 years ago.
GeeGee3374 6 months ago
@GeeGee3374 But that doesn't stop them from being in power thanks to the Lib Dems, does it?
cupcakefairy87 2 months ago
well done home county people for voting them in look whats happening.
joebstarsurfer 6 months ago
Why is she dressed as a man?
xxcookiejord 6 months ago
We need "Spitting Image" back asap. After all, Cameron needs a verbal kick up the backside! Bloody Tories! Who's with me?
goffer43 7 months ago 3
@goffer43
I'd say that all of us who voted Lib Dem are :(
AlchemicalDavid 7 months ago
@goffer43 It's a good idea - but the thing is, if spitting image returned now, it would give 'call me Dave' some character - which he frankly doesn't have. Bear in mind, whilst derogatory - Spitting Image presented Thatcher as the 'Iron Lady' - before that she was just a housewife, just as how Cameron is currently just another Etonion Schoolboy, described as a 'lightweight' by most political analysts.
However if he gets another term in office when his current tenure is up, then IT'S ON!
banjokitten 6 months ago
@banjokitten The thing about modern politics is how bland it is. Cameron hasn't done anything as outrageous as having police twat the shit out of striking miners and innocent hippies to come close to the level of ridicule the Thatchist regime deserved.
SnakeOnAPlane 6 months ago
@SnakeOnAPlane Exactly - and as long as he has no charisma like this, he doesn't stand a chance at the next election, because everybody is just going to remember him by that stage as the man who made a load of cuts, didn't address any of the big issues in the UK properly, but as soon as Libya happened, flew over there to do business as soon as possible. Makes me wonder what business deals he's hiding...but hey ho - he's still better than having Thatcher MkII.
banjokitten 6 months ago
To all of you who are quite obviously Brown Nosing her, Im guessing you did not live through or had any 1st hand experience of her wrath! I whole heartedly support my fathers beliefs of Striking & Not Breaking the Picket Line! Times were hard but never ever let go of what you believe in! She should have a very guilty conscience & I for 1 hope it eats away @ her every day!
gwj222 7 months ago
"I bit off more than I could chew" Spot on Maggie. Spot on!
Mavrakakis 7 months ago
do people realises this is satire, its taking the p*** out of her and not supposed to be good, its satire its supposed to show the truth about the current affairs while making light of it and you people don't understand that i don't know why
sstkennedy 7 months ago 2
the height of British satire has always been Spitting Image
sstkennedy 7 months ago 2
Once we cut through the Maggie love-fest,can we please remember how she crippled this once great nation?! Hope her conscience pricks her every single day of her miserable life,what's left of it!
popazz1 7 months ago
@popazz1 Conscience? What is that? She lost hers, and much more. Oh well, final heavenly justice sometimes arrives before death. I am not British, but I do remember coming over to Britain many times during her "reign" the mood of the people.
hans2406 3 months ago
@hans2406 ,
My mistake,lol.Yes,you're right she clearly didn't/doesn't have a conscience.As for 'heavenly justice',if such a 'state' exisists then it would follow that an alternative exists in the form of Hell,so surely she will be consigned there,if there's a God & he's feeling particularly vengeful,lol.
popazz1 3 months ago
Can anyone get Chris Barries Grandstand commentary up?
joncurtis199 8 months ago in playlist Spitting Image
People need to stop blaming the government for their own problems and take some personal responsibility for themselves!
TheFreddyJnr 8 months ago
Thatcher didn't cause the problems in the North/Scotland/Wales. The Nationalised industries were closed because the work was so shoddy and the products were less cost effective than overseers alternatives. They should have been closed much earlier but the Labour government wouldn't risk losing their core support.
TheFreddyJnr 8 months ago
Here's to a two finger salute!
junkrika 8 months ago 3
Thank you Thatcher for ruining the country
the1booth 8 months ago 4
Is that David or Jonathan?
TheFrostickles 8 months ago
20 years from now. We'll be watching a similar sketch about Cameron. We'll be watching one about Clegg 4 years from now. After he and the fib-dems get slaughtered at the next GE.
JONNOG88 9 months ago
I know this series has some very scary looking puppets but I think its one that will live on and its some think they has to do agen and take the pee out of the modon government and famous people.
penninefilms 9 months ago 3
@dandydoodle100 Commiue mate most of the country doesn't agree with you
Dalek1230 9 months ago
Mrs.Thatcher. I salute you! With my middle finger!
densaner77 11 months ago 4
@densaner77 Lol. I almost clicked the dislike button, but then I read the last part.
TheRacistsMustDie 1 month ago
@TheRacistsMustDie. I'm glad you read the whole comment! :D
densaner77 1 month ago
Hurrah for Thatcher and free trade. Sure, some folks got wipd out with the end of protectionism, but who cares? Nobody gives a fuck what you think, if I have the money, I'll spend it any way I like.
MondoBeno 11 months ago
I vey very vey like spitting image
serjiorj 1 year ago
thater we salute you
people yes may have been hurt and the road was bumpy
but you pulled this countrie through
and we are better off becuase of you
foxychick246 1 year ago
bloody hell, i dont care how left wing you are, she is NOT evil, if you think she was a bad primeminister, then thats it, it does NOT make her an evil cow, and she doesn't deserver to die either, tell you what if you could do a better job than all these people you rip on all the time, then why don't you take power for yourself and do a lot worse of a job or actually get involved with the political system!
honestly...
dragonwar524 1 year ago
@dragonwar524 I myself dislike Thatcherism and disagree with many of her decisions, but I do agree that sometimes the hate people heap on her is disgusting.
GeneralGoosey 1 year ago
Get a grip you bunch of twats!!! she's an old cow who deserves what she gets!!! Party @ mines when the old bag croakes it!!!
gwj222 1 year ago
@gwj222 she is one of the greatest and strongest polotions in history she went head long n front of the europian goverment. she stood up to russia and she helped this countrie out of some of it worst times, yeh, se made some mistakes but she stood by them and in the long run has helped lots of people..
foxychick246 1 year ago
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gwj222 1 year ago
The further you get from Magaret Thatcher, the easier it is to glamorise her.
She was the toughest post-war politician Britain's ever seen, but beneath that 'Iron Lady' exterior... beat a heat of cold, sharp flint.
Now, get back to work you boot-licking DOGS!
USERNAMEfieldempty 1 year ago 4
hey maggot!!! adolph and cromwell are waiting for you in hell!!
vivascargill 1 year ago 2
@vivascargill hey if it wernt for thater this countrie would be in alot of debt and you and me and loads of more people would be poor
she fought the membes of the europian leaders and she can not be compared to hitler in any way
grow up
foxychick246 1 year ago
Maybe the most controversial leader of 20th century. Love her, hate her, but she really wasn't one who kneeled. Oh, no, not her...
radiradev90 1 year ago
The sooner she's six feet under the better the world will be.
jonathan1994ish1 1 year ago
@jonathan1994ish1 she saved the uk from a fate worse then death
Newyork1969 1 year ago
Thank God we avoided this in the States. We could've had Hillary Clinton for president! God that would've been awful.
vladnuke 1 year ago
lol the iron slut, pure evil
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 1 year ago
She was brilliant.
usernameofnobody 1 year ago
"It truly was fortunate to have three such remarkable individuals as Reagan, Thatcher, and Pope John Paul together at the same critica point in history.
Without them, we would not have survived and won the Cold War against external totalitarianism. Much like Churchill in WWII."
solcab75 1 year ago
Maggie, we love you!!
ShutThatDoor 1 year ago 3
Am I the first person to notice a link between Margaret Thatcher and Dorothy Squires?
Steveuk405 1 year ago
I didn't imagine this rendition would attract quite so much praise from adoring Thatcherites...
oclandestin 1 year ago
Rejoice not in her defeat you people. For although the world stood up and stopped her the bitch that bore is in heat again....
robert100xx 1 year ago
thacher please come back i miss you .
willobi 1 year ago
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0886Damo 1 year ago
Thatcher was made into a star with spitting image! Truly one of the best prime ministers of the modern times! the show may have mocked her but it just made her all more loved for me!
Fowdy92 1 year ago
@Fowdy92 Spitting Image mocked everyone - even itself sometimes!!!
AidanLunn 1 year ago
Margaret Thatcher is the best Prime Minister ever.
Long Live Margaret Thatcher.
antidisenstable 1 year ago
off your meds
DemonNoles7 1 year ago
why would anyone vote conservatives?
Robsfund 1 year ago 2
@Robsfund why would anyone vote labour or lib dem
SirOneoneselfandone 1 year ago
@Robsfund
Why would anybody vote Labour??
JONNOG88 9 months ago
Another fantastic performance from Steve Nallon.
bumbledown08 1 year ago
i think the 2010 election in the UK, should have another woman leader, not like thatcher but one who can understand us - make us proud again
Galacticmaster 1 year ago
I'm surprised she didn't try to shut the show down...
bakawak 1 year ago 2
season 8 is now available.
AidanLunn 1 year ago
oh I thought it was, have you got that clip of her taking her seat after resigning?
GeeGee3374 2 years ago
I watch spitting image for Maggie Thatcher.
BorgUnimatrix 2 years ago
Thatcher we salute you
dim432 2 years ago 67
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wongahoraeschileno 2 years ago
@dim432 Yes, sig heil!
Vorticistick 2 years ago
@dim432 stupid cunt
MetalheadBLADE 1 year ago
@dim432 Look Margaret! There's a message for you from the pits of Hell!!!
frbjoern 1 year ago
@dim432 For ruining the country
the1booth 8 months ago
well thats wierd
philatwill123 2 years ago
I wouldn't call it sad... hell, from a neutral point of view this sketch actually looks like it's congratulating Maggie on her 10 years... and let's face it, if it wasn't for Maggie Spitting Image would have no major target to rip on
I heard that this was supposed to be one of the "last" episodes made... note that loads of series are referred to that though (84, 85, 89) etc.
XavierTheBobFriar 2 years ago
I don't get what you mean by last episode?
The last episode was in 1996.
AndrewJimScott 2 years ago
So this is meant to be sad?
AndrewJimScott 2 years ago
I didn't think it was sad (definitely not on the level of "We Ruined the World"). I found this song rather amusing.
Sparrowmaiden 2 years ago 14
imagine if we did that to Gordon brown.
dim432 2 years ago
The "go now" song is, for the bit at the end when she walks into a deserted House of Commons, takes her seat on the second bench and bursts into tears. whatever your politicial opinions she didn't deserve what those bastards (the Tory parliamentary party) did to her in 1990.
GeeGee3374 2 years ago 40
that wasn't the saem episode
AndrewJimScott 2 years ago
That's the difference between tory and labour MP's, the Tory's knew a big loss was coming unless they got rid of her and they did, labour know they are gonna struggle with brown but don't have the spine to get rid of him. Labour have about enough spine to stop themselves slouching the the commons.
killgill0 2 years ago
go now was from may 1990 and she resigned in november
AndrewJimScott 2 years ago
@GeeGee3374 Here Here!
It was bloody rotten what they did. What we need is for Maggie to come back and sort out the mess that the public finances are in.
kookykid500 2 years ago 5
@GeeGee3374 It's not actually. it was broadcast at the end of the first episode of series 8 in may 1990.
Have a look.
AidanLunn 1 year ago
@GeeGee3374 the Go now song was actually broadcast in may 1990, not november.
AidanLunn 1 year ago
@AidanLunn Whoops, just realised I said the same thing to you a month ago.
AidanLunn 1 year ago
@GeeGee3374 totally agree. thatcher was incredible and didnt deserve the treatment she got and is still given. <3 her
MikeWhiteMusicUK 1 year ago
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Galacticmaster 1 year ago
@GeeGee3374
IT'S CALLED POLITICS
Galacticmaster 1 year ago
@GeeGee3374 I could'nt agree with you more.....they did the dirty on her big time, at least with Margaret Thatcher you knew where you stood with her.
GRAHAM5020 1 year ago
@GeeGee3374 Maybe it was more like in the words of the song - I bit off more than I could chew...
I say that as a strong Thatcher supporter BTW.
alanheath2 1 year ago
@GeeGee3374 I didn't see that part?
weecraig898 6 months ago
@GeeGee3374 Yes she did, crippeling the north.
It took till 2009 to recover properly, and a conservative goverment has been voted in again.
she deserves all the criticism and anger she gets. along with any other conservative party member
Pamsarker 6 months ago 3
@GeeGee3374 yes she fuckin did...
bumblescum64 5 months ago in playlist bumblescum64's Favourited Videos 9
@GeeGee3374 I know I like to blame everything on Maggie Thatcher, as do many of the people in Yorkshire, but I suppose it is unfair to blame her entirely, after all, these things wouldn't have happened if she didn't have the people in the house of commons supporting her, not to mention I doubt everything that happened was her idea, but I suppose we blame her as she didn't try to stop any of it but supported it.
mouseycou 4 months ago
@Sparrowmaiden its a real shame we ruined the world got taken down, i heard they cut it from the DVD release
lewismurray1 1 year ago
@Sparrowmaiden What was this "we ruined the orld". I'm wondering what this Spitting Image song sounded like now.
AidanLunn 1 year ago
@Sparrowmaiden Do you have "We Ruined the World"?
MrL3onidas 1 year ago
@MrL3onidas I think you mean "tomorow belongs to me"
Txeph7 1 year ago
@Txeph7 I assure you I don't. We Ruined The World was a parody of What A Wonderful World, other haves referred to We Ruined The World incorrectly as the banned sketch, but that was Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
MrL3onidas 1 year ago
@MrL3onidas You right, I just assumed that was the one you said, still great sketch, you know I was born in 1987, and although i never experienced the 80s, I think spitting image is genious and there was something really charismtatic about thatcher
Txeph7 1 year ago
@Sparrowmaiden any idea where we can see a copy of "we ruined the world"?!
TheJinkedful 9 months ago
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AndrewJimScott asks: So this is meant to be sad?
perspicaciouscritic replies: It's "sad" in a British way, which means it's sad-amusing, as opposed to sad-sad.
perspicaciouscritic 5 months ago