Heated itw with David Frost and Margaret Thatcher on TV-am - 1985

David Frost interviews Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands war. 9th June 1985 on TV-am

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[beavorpigs]

Do you have the full interview?

[Tvam Archive]

We do...

[TrippleNipple72]

The poll tax sucked balls but she is a great woman.  Only the most ardent loon would believe that sinking an enemy warship during a war is somehow 'wrong', but then most of the anti-Thatcher people I've met are loons anyway.

Some people act like the Belgrano was a civilian ship. It was a WARship and would have happily sunk all of our Navy if given the chance. I feel sorry for the young men that died, but rather theirs than ours.

[nafangibby]

what a stupid thing to say.......she was mental for saving a British territory from an invasion by a corrupted overseas government?? I am glad you are not the PM

[boldertits]

Thatcher needed the war more than Galtiere.

[shevegen]

That is no excuse.

The UK slaughtered several hundred enemies, over islands which should be INDEPENDENT rather than slave for the UK Empire.

[SeftonDelmer]

Mainsqueeze,

youre talking Poppycock.. (no offence sunshine, but you really are)

If you were born in 1977 ,as your nickname would imply , you will have been a mere five years old when these events took place, (just like any other 5 year old you believed anything that the big fat bully at nursery-school told you, then you... are forgiven... whats that? you were/are the big fat bully? oh well, in that case, theres no excuse...

[Tedy Bruschi]

Yeah, Capitalism certainly, while necessary, creates boom and bust, and thus the economic crisis Britain is in. Yet we had such a crisis in the early 1990s and the Tories got us out of it relatively quickly. One of the reasons we're in so bad now is because of Brown's wasteful public spending and borrowing, which has racked up our huge deficit. To blame it all on capitalism is just madness.

[mainsqueeze1977]

Regardless of what one thinks of Thatcher's other policies, especially towards the end of her term, she was right on the Falklands - Argentinian aggression had to be resisted to avoid encourage more of the same kind. And war ships are sunk and soldiers are killed in war, that's the nature of it. In a war (which neither she nor Britain had started) one has to be iron.

[MRwonderman1]

Marvellous. She would eat any man alive!

I just love the way Frost was all of a jitter, fiddling with his sock when she was going full throttle with the looks and the "I'm sorry, what did you say" HAHA!

[andro89]

Frost let the power go to his head after the nixon interview

[LightYearsFromHere]

Damn you mean Frost and his leftist hatchet teams were attacking her over sinking an enemy ship in a time of war.... THREE YEARS LATER! This doesnt bother me because Im conservative. Im not. I have socialist beliefs and I wish the left wasn't spoken for by asinine media whores like Frost.

[TheAqui1a]

I get so turned on by how she says those last few words, 'and I would do the same again' ... Phwoar.

[kenfig]

Very Mad person