Spitting Image - Go Now (High Quality)

[jeebateeba56]

Hugh Laurie 0:52?

[tireoghainian]

@jeebateeba56  Its supposed to be Colin Moynihan. He was the sports minister.

[tbdkuphk]

I wonder if the creators and writers of Spitting Image felt, at the very days Thatcher’s PM career ended, that the main drive behind the superb creativity of their show is gone… Quite ironic, or actually not, that Spitting Image declined at a paralel timeline to the return of the (new) Labor…

[martianboy99]

@tbdkuphk Most people will agree. Thatcher seemed to be the pivotal point of this show. When she went, there seemed to be no direction for this programme.

[NicosNicosNicosNicos]

@martianboy99 Everything about her demanded satire.

[BlueSmurf10]

@tbdkuphk - I totally agree. The soap opera that was UK Politics basically lost its best character - and unlike Corrie or EastEnders, you can't just write someone else in.

[StephenFiorentini]

Whose that singing at 1:00

[willscomix]

That John major puppet is more lifelike than the man himself

[Durbs75]

No counter argument, I see. Try again.

[Durbs75]

Amazing to see the number of staunch atheists that believe in Hell where Mrs Thatcher is involved. Mind you, can we be assured there are no Socialists in hell? In which case it sound rather agreeable.

Oh, and Hitler was a socialist. Slapping "National" on the front doesn't get you out of it.

[USERNAMEfieldempty]

@Durbs75 moron

[Connie270393]

@Durbs75 Hitler wasnt a socialist he was a fascist about the furthest thing you can get from being a socialist

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@Connie270393

"We are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of personality and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions. In the future there must be no ranks or classes, and you must not let them begin to grow in you!" --Adolf Hitler

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@Connie270393

If it wasn't for the whole killing jews, gays and lack of a weelchair thing, Hitler would be FDR. He gets a bad reputation just because he lost the war, as he knew he would. Socialist but not soviet socialist :P

[maxime32]

@unassumption

I agree with most of your points, but I have to go with Connie and deny that Hitler was a socialist. He may have supported some socialistic programmes and central planning but in other areas he favoured a high degree of privatisation. There were socialists who helped build the Nazi Party, and he eliminated them all to get support from big business. His own obsession was eugenics/racial theories, not economics, and that (as you would agree) is why he is regarded as evil.

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@maxime32

I agree, its just not as clear cut a "the fascists are the opposite of socialists!" thing people try and make out. He himself claimed to hate socialists, but also hated capitalism, kinda a hateful dude.

[maxime32]

@unassumption

Yeah, ultimately he just did not care about, much less understand, economics. He just wanted power to use to pursue his racial theories.  If that meant ultimately compromising with the capitalists, that was fine for him.

[maxime32]

@Connie270393

Hitler was a fascist, not a socialist. I agree with you. But that does not make him as far away from a socialist as you can get.

Why do you think the world is fast becoming a neoliberal, globalist hellhole? Because socialists support liberals thinking "at least they aren't nationalists or social conservatives" and the latter back liberals saying "at least they aren't socialists". That doesn't mean neoliberalism is centrist!

[AlternativeViewTV]

@maxime32 neoliberalism and neoconservatism are far-right wing fascist ideologies and doctrines - and socialism have nothing to do with them - vice versa.

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@Durbs75

I forgot what hitler's impact on the german economy over the sound of the praise he recieved from all the world's leaders from bringing germany back from the brink of economic collapse. That is to say, are Hitler's economic policies REALLY what made his rule something we wouldn't want to repeat? If not, why bring them up? If so, what about that whole holocaust thing eh? Why judge all his policies in light of the guy's other policies? economically he was there with FDR

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@Durbs75

is FDR as bad as Hitler for his national recovery act and the bank nationalizations? he's certainly as socialist.

what about the far more socialist Clemet Attlee? Is he worse than Hitler? if its the socialism that made Hitler bad...tacking "Hitler supported this" or "hitler was part of a group which also contains members who support this" on the end of a proposition doesn't make it false or wrong. Hitler liked dogs, does liking dogs make you evil?

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@Durbs75

If Hitler was a Christian (hypothetically) would that make Christians morally equivelent to Hitler?

Any evidence that Hitler was lying when he said, repeatedly, in multiple contexts, that he was a Christian?

The meaning of an idiom like "go to hell" is independant of its literal meaning; if someone says "suck my cock" they probably don't literally mean it. Thatcher's favourite economist, Mises and Heyack, were mostly staunch atheists.

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@Durbs75

People spend so much time judging people and ideas by their labels and the 'groups' they belong to, they forget to examine their consequences. Socialism, conservatism, nazism, and Christianity are all vaguely defined as to be almost useless. If you show an idea is 'socialist' you don't show it will lead to all the other consequences of all the other ideas in that box, you don't show anything about its desirability by comparing it to the desirability of related but different ideas. 

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@Durbs75

With 38,000 registered sects of Christianity in the US alone, how sure can you be that Hell won't contain people who believe as you do - even if it is for those who don't believe the truth and the truth is Jesus - which jesus is right? If it doesn't matter which sect, not much matters at all, considering some sects differ from others on almost every issue. Convinient how the one true sect probably has a church in your local area. I won't go into other religions, old or new.

[GLove88mph]

i am absolutely horrified.

[Dannyboyjap]

This is going to go down great projected onto a huge screen at the party held after she is handed over to satan.

[lagowns]

fucking creepy

[YesIamEccentric]

I felt sorry for poor Maggie watching this....

[Fowdy92]

Michael Heseltine really shouldnt have stabbed Thatcher in the back....

Poll tax wasnt a particularly bad idea either.. it was just the idiotic community failing to understand what's good for them. Perhaps if people wouldnt be so challenging and critical of authority, Britain would be a better place...

[Schniddo]

@Fowdy92 'if people wouldnt be so challenging and critical of authority". . .

We would never have beheaded a king, never achieved universal suffrage, never have abolished the workhouses or gained free education and the NHS.

Perhaps if more people thought like you Britain would be far worse for it.

[Fowdy92]

@Schniddo excuse me? Authority is the essentiality for order and the destruction of order has lead to a permissive and arrogant public who are too reaped in individualism and selfish interests to care about the moral, pride and structure of this country. And the NHS and free education have nothing to do with "authority" they are essential elements of our social structure. Sadly, both of them are so poor in quality they arent living up to their potential..

[jinkedful]

@Fowdy92 they should have implemented the poll tax gradually, that way there wouldn't have been sudden shocks and thus no massed riots... terrible quirk of history.

[IMMACUTMAN]

Now really is the right time to bring back Spitting Image. The house of Commons is full of MPs just waiting to be made fun of.

[densaner77]

I for one hope that Maggie rots in hell for what she did to Britain!

[Ripperstein]

@densaner77 what did she do?

[densaner77]

@Ripperstein. Read a book and find out!

[Ripperstein]

@densaner77 Any specific book?

[densaner77]

@Ripperstein. The English Civil War Part II - Deller and Rich Britain by Lansley.

[goodgunnerwenger]

Michael Heseltine as a rocker is funny

[YesIamEccentric]

Despite what people say Maggie T was a good prime minister, she showed the Argentines who own the Falklands, she got us out of recession, she beat the IRA and made the unions weaker - we need her now TBH!!!!

[AidanLunn]

@YesIamEccentric She got us out of one recession, then got us into another one at the tail end of her premiership.

[jinkedful]

i miss thatcher

[hwr1996]

whos that at1:16?

[Ridwee]

@hwr1996

Nigel Lawson

[hwr1996]

@Ridwee whos nigel dawson?

[Ridwee]

@hwr1996

He was Thatcher's Chancellor between 1983 and 1989.

But he was secretary of state for energy before that.

Look him up.

[SirOneoneselfandone]

@hwr1996 lawson was her chancellor

[ShaqZigWINNER64]

What's with churchill at the end? Did he always appear like that or is it only for this one?

[AidanLunn]

@ShaqZigWINNER64 It was only for this one sketch.

[endlessraining]

Which episode was this from?

[bumbledown08]

Who did Hugh Dennis voice?

[skitzsofrenik]

I think they got Hurd and Major mixed up? :S

[Starman117]

Love how they've not changed any words but made it work so well.

[Cool2BCeltic]

Rubbish!

[phanface]

This song and the way it was staged is well balanced: It criticizes Thatcher, but gives an idea of what it must have been like for her near the end of her leadership when her popularity and support dwindled. The political satire and commentary in having the House of Commons telling her to "go now" criticizes them as much as Thatcher. Considering that her resignation was not far off, this song definitely stands out among the songs from Spitting Image.

[BrapBrap1234]

@phanface It definitely highlights how they all stabbed her in the back. She never lost a general election, but it was her own party that forced her out. Cowards

[dim432]

Gordon this is for you 0:22

[WarshipAngelus]

It's too bad SNL can't do a american version of this for the current president.. LOL.. Now that would be funny to see that..

[DracoRincewind]

Spiting Image gave me nightmares when I was a kid.

[ErnieandBert1]

John Major sounds completely different!

[Tamuartay]

@ErnieandBert1 that happenes a few times...

some VAs juggle their roles around, and thir singing voices are different!

[PripyatTV]

They should start making these shows again... It would be brilliant to see Gordon Brown being mocked.

[andrewscottuk]

@PripyatTV They did

[PripyatTV]

Do you have it?

[andrewscottuk]

@PripyatTV Have what?

[SirOneoneselfandone]

@andrewscottuk WHAT when doo tell

[valeriereified]

@andrewscottuk Well, they made headcases, but it was no spitting image. And there was no Chris Barrie.

[mrflibble101]

@PripyatTV I'm sure they could base the David & David relationship on Cameron & Clegg

[95pembo]

brilliant, wish it had never ended

[dim432]

Gordon this is for you

[Emrald70]

Britain's first female PM was certainly memorable

[smileAssassin92]

@Emrald70 for all the wrong reasons

[vengefulnoob]

HAHAHA BITCH GOT SERVED!

[EvilgidgitReturns]

Why did that MP put a bag on his head?

[arjunmittra]

it's a raincoat hood- roy hattersley had a reputation (from the show) of spitting when talking.

[EvilgidgitReturns]

Oh right. Thanks. That MP behind the guy with a hood looks like Tim Curry.

[AndrewJimScott]

I think it's David Melloband.

[Ridwee]

@EvilgidgitReturns

The MP with the hood is John Prescott

The MP behind him is Paul Boateng

[GeeGee3374]

Prescott put it on to protect himself from Hattersley's spit

[xxxdarkmexxx]

great quality! nice!

[dim432]

Gordon this is for you

[rimmersgirl81]

is that chris barrie that starts of the song as heseltine?

[andrewscottuk]

Yep.

[andrewscottuk]

Look do you want blocked?

[rimmersgirl81]

nicely said!

[AndrewJimScott]

Were you talking to me?

[rimmersgirl81]

yes i was talking to you the person who wrote then deleted the nasty comment was (probably) an english tosser!

[AndrewJimScott]

He always does these comments.

I don't worry to much.