ITN News: The Thatcher Decade (1989)

[SkullOfYorick]

Damn the leftist traitors who stabbed Thatcher in the back.

[charlieiscool1000]

she was one of the strongest leaders in british history

[rayyyyyy1]

She`was a disaster for Britain. Mass unemployment, huge increase in crime and riots up and down the country.

The UK had a huge opportunity in the 80s thanks to North sea oil and she wasted it. UNFORGIVEABLE.

[steps1]

Nurse!

The country was on its knees before Thatcher arrived..we were known as the 'sick man of Europe'..the 'winter of discontent'..strikes galore..gravediggers even went on strike so we faced the prospect of sending bodies to see..she put the unions in their place and it's interesting to see how Labour has not repealed a single law..it's fact: Britain was stronger, richer and more self-confident than when she arrived..she saved the country and killed off socialism

[billyysands]

indeed Labour is no longer a Socialist party in the traditional definition of socialism high taxes antiona industry

cradle to grave welfare it is now a more social liberal party centrist pro market,

i used to be a socialist, i hated thatcher i'm 50 now, she saved Britian, other than her handling of N Ireland i'd say i'd have to admit i was right and she was wrong

i cant agree on her handling of N Ireland

i honeslty stil cant understand why Britian was ever in Ireland even after study

[morgansifer82]

I agree. Yes Thatcher always thought she was right, but she always had a clear coherent answer to any question that was put to her. The likes of Benn and Hattersley just reel off the same old mantra that they have been reeling off for the last thirty years or so, and the funny thing is, nobody ever listens to them, apart from a few die-hard socialists and pre-pubescent students who lap up all the crap they talk.

[LS8492]

Viva Margaret!!!!!! She really changed everything, as politician & as a woman, go Mags!!! >D

[SamArmstrong1977]

britain was a near basket case at the end of the seventies and only a person with tunnel vision could have pushed through the changes that were necessary. hattersley should just come clean and say he is jealous of her lack of self doubt.

[morgansifer82]

It is interesting that Roy Hattersley did not like the fact that she never thought she was wrong. Without this mindset she would never have pushed through the ground-breaking reforms she did. How else would you cope with being hated by half the nation without a "i am right you are always wrong" mentality. I do not agree with all she did, by my god i admire her!

[dragonlee90]

Roy Hattersley never likes to admit he is wrong either, despite being wrong on every issue. His recent appearance on Question time shows this.

[morgansifer82]

I found Roy Hattersley's appearance on Question Time quite embaressing. He was quite pig headed all the way through it, whilst at the same time not making any sense at all. He needs to keep schtum in future.

[dragonlee90]

He's just like Tony Benn and all of the other Labour old boy's. He thinks his age gives him the aura of a lovable elder statesmen who must never be questioned, because that is insulting! What a joke he is.