The decline of Bureaucratic Elites and the Rise of Thatcherism
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Uploaded by UnitedBritannia on Aug 16, 2008
Political journalist and documentarian Adam Curtis examines some of the key intellectual theories at the heart of Thatcherism and explores the political circumstances of the late 1970's that led to Mrs. Thatcher's election victory.
Also includes a brief look at how the BBC sitcom "Yes, Minister" might be considered a form of political propoganda for the Thatcher revolution. Taken from the multi-award winning documentary "The Trap: What Happened to our Dream of Freedom". Note: Features the New Order song "Age of Consent" from the 1983 LP "Power, Corruption and Lies"
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wow its neat to see how the program got started as I really enjoy the Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister series. I am not even British! I am from New Zealand and I love it :D
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@pspboy7 still is, it's remarkable, still as relevant today as it ever was, MP expenses corruption, our uncomfortable in but not in relationship with Europe, the nuclear deterrent, budget cuts, are we still a military power, our political agenda just goes round and round in circles
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@acr08807 I dare not add anything else. You've summed it perfectly.
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that sexy, sexy thing...
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Honestly. Doesn't this narrator sound like someone that Sir Humphreys would have hired?
3 months ago 3
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Bitten by the dog or scratched by the cat. The poor will be the poor, the rich will be the rich.
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Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister was pure gold because it was so accurate and spot on.
6 months ago 2
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"Yes Minister" is ideological propaganda devised by radicals? Why - because it told the truth?
Why should I be surprised by such a claim. This is from the same neo-socialist nutter that blamed everything bad about Western society on Edward Bernays.
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@ThatIsNotDeadWhich I can't argue that. They both are not working in the peoples interest. .
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thanks for thses united britiania i loved yes minister and i want to understand
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billyysands 2 years ago 13
@DrCruel One of the producers of Yes Minister, Anthony Jay, wrote party political speeches for Margaret Thatcher. Pretty much everyone else involved was on the left. I never detected any pro-Thatcher bias in the show, and I'm hardly a Thatcherite. I don't think it was political propeganda at all. And the notions that people didn't understand self-interested behavior before public choice theory was formalized, and that public choice theory has cured the problem, are both ludicrous.
acr08807 3 months ago 12