The Downing Street Years P0101

The Downing Street Years - Part 1 looking at Margaret Thatcher's years as PM. One of the 4 episodes taped from bbc.

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[LogInForPaper]

when was this programme broadcast.

[spenceAMS]

I think it was 1992 but I can't remember for sure.

[HAZIDEAD]

Greatest woman on the planet

[ClockworkDonkey]

Love Margaret, hate the back stabbers who betrayed her.

[BelatedCommiseration]

'Fevered and irrational'. A slightly misogynistic remark from Lord Gilmour there? Still quite an amusing observation. In many ways Thatcher was, and to some degree still is despite her age, a remarkable person in attitude and demenour. You have to give her the props for being tenacious in argument and with a messianic belief in herself that I envy. She necessary for a time, but I believe she would be better thought of if she hadn't won past 1985. At least by us southerners any road.

[brianclough]

I think it odd that Ministers who despised her, chose to sit in her Cabinet in the 1st place. It's one thing to talk about about ideals etc, but totally another when it comes to perks and one's own self importance which Cabinet office brings.

[doriangz]

@LogInForPaper 1993

[joeweir1]

@spenceAMS it was 1993

[spiritofharold]

the people who forced this wicked and detestable woman out of office , did the country a huge favour , i do admire her resolve in standing up to the ira - not giving in to them like that bastard major + blair - and for being her own person , but the poll tax was an abomination , which forced many of our poor into despair.

only a wicked - spiteful goverment + pm would launch such an awful tax on the population of the uk.

overall we are well rid of her.

only a sad bigot would want her back.

[randomtux1234]

@englishfrenchgerman if churchill had a daughter it would have been our

iron lady of steel resolve with more balls than all of her damned backstabbing

cabinet combined

[vivatmusica]

Undoubtedly our best PM since WSC. Her intelligence, her resolve, her indefatigability, her undying love for the British national interest was unsurpassed in modern politics. Look at what she achieved after the dire 1970s - economic strength, lower taxes, an end to strikes, victory against the argentine junta, the defeat of communism, and the EU rebate, to name just some. Shame on those traitors who stabbed her in the back.

[englishfrenchgerman]

The strongest Prime Minister since Churchill. All politicians should try to be as strong as Thatcher

[labourpartymember]

Even her own government couldn't stand her in the end, maybe the poll tax was the icing on the cake?

[sebtibs]

@livvyxo Yes, he did a few things for the Beeb and ITV (Panorama, Horizon, etc) but its really difficult to get archives so it was lovely to hear this. He passed away when I was 18 but I can now get my son to hear him when he is older.