Harold Macmillan giving a speech on Margaret Thatcher's Privatisation policies
Uploader Comments (iconic)
Top Comments
-
@hellsbells056 what you've just described is how abysmal it would be if we were like Norway? You talk about the nation not 'having enough money'. You do realise that in the past 250 years there have only been 2 brief periods where we have had more debt than now... but we've lost the industrial expertise to provide for ourselves; because all our infrastructure was privatised (and sold off to foreign interests)
-
I am disgusted by the remarks made on this page about MacMillan - one of the best peacetime Prime Ministers in the last 100 years, and I am not a Tory, and will never vote for them. I suppose you are among those who wanted him tried as a war criminal in 1986...
All Comments (81)
-
One of the worst prime ministers the UK ever had. He only got the position after betraying Eden during the Suez Crisis.
-
I did: he couldn't handle me and sent me away
-
@Bastiat90 Go into the pit of Satan's basement
-
Please go further
-
@Bastiat90 Go die
-
@ganonisthebest Regardless it still wasn't his to give back either!
-
@stevenross100 He didn't 'give away' the empire, he gave it back. And the plans to do that had been around before Macmillan took office anyway, after WWII and being in so much debt to America it wasn't economically feasible to be running an empire.
-
Legend.
-
BOOOOOBS!
-
MacMillan was the worst PM ever to befall the nation! He gave away that which was not his to tamper with, throwing away the empire with such apparent lack of concern is little better than treason.
That information is not in the description but I am sure someone knows. We will put it to the viewers, can anyone tell us what year this was?
iconic 1 year ago