The day Margaret Thatcher resigned - Newsnight archives (1990)

Part of the Newsnight Archives series. How Newsnight reported the end of a titanic parliamentary era.* SUBSCRIBE to get our latest videos bbc.in/1iouM30 *

[@paolosnplo]

Who’s here after watching The CROWN

[@ork4661]

Me !!

[@georgiemcloughlin786]

Me 😁

[@chiehgao7304]

Me!

[@jacquelinemoran1226]

Found me out

[@Kath7120]

I’ve never heard Thatcher speak in real life since i’m not British, and genuinely thought that the actress in the crown was exaggerating while speaking, but after watching this video it all makes sense lmao she really speaks like that 😂

[@DapperDill]

John Major trying not to backflip out of his seat.

[@gorillachilla]

lol

[@whatsyournameson7208]

Good riddance

[@sophiemcgrorty8598]

i read this as john mayor

[@Jaxymann]

"It was the saddest backflip of my career" - John 'Nani' Major, 1990

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

archive pieces like this one are absolutely fascinating

[@BBCNewsnightonline]

Thanks! We're uploading a couple each week on Thursdays - and taking suggestions, so let us know if you have anything in mind that you'd like to see again.

[@ednuttah]

History repeats itself, firstly as a tragedy secondly as a farce.

[@tiernanlynch1994]

MostlyLoveOfMusic (

[@ap-pv7ug]

@@BBCNewsnightonline I'd love to see a piece about New Labour from the mid 90s.

[@elliot7753]

@@ednuttah out here predicting Coronavirus lol

[@MrKringlebotn]

10:46 Margharet Tatcher seen finally escaping Parliament in the background ❤️

[@miniena7774]

I laughed more than I should have.

[@Ozzzzelot]

Well spotted! I’m crying from laughing so hard ❤️

[@crinky3907]

LOOL

[@amsyarrahim1737]

Hahhahaha

[@Loverboy19691]

Yeah, like Davros escaping in the pod from the Dalek mother ship before it explodes !!

[@elijahalcober9761]

Me: thinks British politicians are serious and strict. Vs What they actually are like at the commons.

[@lilyrichter5202]

your talking about a country that got the song ding dong the witch is dead to number 2 on the charts 3 days after she died so ahaha don't hold the same reservations ab some of the country.

[@bitchfacehopkins9094]

@@lilyrichter5202 True, But she obviously was doing something right to be elected 3 times🤷🏼‍♀️😂!

[@sikerslalatm3147]

@@bitchfacehopkins9094 when you don’t have any better options, one will choose what they are left with 😂 (even if it may be just as rotten)

[@inconnu4961]

@@lilyrichter5202 Thats extremely cruel! Count on the Left to be as boorish an uncouth as they want to be!

[@leereynolds2681]

Watching this in 2020! Anyone else?

[@NihonDream]

I am...very interesting.

[@CarlHislop]

Yep

[@RedKnight-fn6jr]

Yep! Thatcher - an iconic leader!

[@richardsmart4722]

Yep

[@pachma405]

Love to hear her voice from time to time. Brings back happy memories.

[@jackonuallain1445]

“No she’s going to be the governor”. I love you Dennis Skinner

[@jacobrickayzen2744]

Why’s it funny please?

[@jackonuallain1445]

Jacob Rickayzen Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) was a strong opponent of the European Central Bank being established. Dennis Skinner (Labour) said sarcastically that she’s gonna be the governor when she leaves office as PM.

[@jacobrickayzen2744]

Jack O'Nuallain thank you. Governor of the european bank?

[@jackonuallain1445]

Jacob Rickayzen No problem and yes of the European Bank

[@jacobrickayzen2744]

Jack O'Nuallain ythsnk you and you’re a nice guy!

[@JHarris533]

4:30 never change Skinner, Never Change.

[@bigal640]

Although i don't like labour, i ADORE Skinner. 😂

[@rheax6472]

He’s a legend haha. Will go down in history

[@garethhayes3470]

And he never has

[@erisplaysgames]

What a good idea

[@faristaj2326]

Yeah, I will never change...

[@aoulipa4165]

The image quality is outstanding

[@DannyBoi2112]

Footage from the 90s is still better than CCTV footage of 2020

[@jeff4362]

@@DannyBoi2112 Watch some 1960s Hollywood blockbusters even those look better than 2020 CCTV

[@Alexander-tu3iv]

6:37 Seems like an unfair election since candidate 2 and 3 are quite clearly the same guy.

[@veggie42]

May won because Leadsom and Gove split the leave vote

[@Secret19977]

@@veggie42No may won because leadsom quit, she would have won if she stayed in the race

[@RBenjo21]

"Indeed, on her day Mrs Thatcher could sweep all before her - and this was her day."

[@natedeichard1261]

If you look closely, you can see all the knives sticking out of Thatcher's back.

[@HughJanus23]

If you look even closer, you can see that she’s not bleeding because she was a blood sucking vampire.

[@bogmanhimself4656]

good, it takes a lot of knives to kill a ghoul. fuck her

[@kharadron3561]

'Mrs Thatcher was in her element' so was Dennis Skinner

[@alcoholicjoe6199]

Shr was a builderberger lacky ...the familrs that realy rule as was smiley bou blair and this baffoon we have now.

[@ednuttah]

4:30 Skinner a legend in his own time frame!

[@jayll9569]

Look how young he was 😊

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

@@jayll9569 you can tell that although he disagreed with Thatcher he respected the fact that she (like him) was principled and was a conviction politician.... he was also her junior in age, tenure and position so also respected her because of that due to the times he was bought up in

[@MrAM4D3U5]

Anyone else coming back to watch this today after Boris Johnson just resigned?

[@SnowyHeather]

Ye

[@jamsiejohnston7635]

Yes

[@charlescovell8054]

Yes, and there is no comparison. Thatcher was a giant. As for Johnson, no comment!

[@susannehouse3857]

Yep.

[@melgrant7404]

@@charlescovell8054 thatcher was many things

[@PhilipJackson03]

Funny how they think Major wasn’t gonna get it but did and won them a fourth majority.

[@jacquesy2520]

Major I think is quite overshadowed, being sandwiched between two giants of prime ministers in Thatcher and Blair. In times like now where political leaders are generally incompetent, a safe pair of hands like Major would go down well.

[@sinjimsmythe9577]

D’ya know, I never thought of it like that. Very very clever bloke Major. Way sharper than given credit for

[@suemassey5076]

That miserable rat did nothing for his country

[@josephbrennan370]

@@jacquesy2520 safe pair of hands? Remember Black Wednesday.

[@jacquesy2520]

@@josephbrennan370 pfft I wrote that comment when May and Corbyn were around. They made a market shock look like a joke.

[@stevenmael]

Watching this is literally no different than watching spitting image, kinda sad that for decades reality has been parodying itself.

[@solarsatan9000]

THIS IS A JOB FOR BLONDMAN

[@lwnf360]

Spitting Image nailed all of these guys to the wall. Even the BBC presenters. It's unreal. I don't know the official reason Spitting Image was cancelled, but my theory is that the ITV bosses didn't want them shpitting on their golden boy Tony Blair.

[@spasticpug5209]

Me watching spitting image before watching this: I recognize nobody Me watching this after watching spitting image: I RECOGNIZE EVERYBODY

[@Tempusverum]

Spastic pug the weird thing is, now i consider the “Spitting Image” to be real and these are the puppets

[@goosw5502]

@@solarsatan9000 oóo0l80⁰090

[@joseph4861]

I despise/d all her policies but I have got to admit she was a formidable politician. This is amazing archive footage. Gideot Osborne and Wavey Davey Cameron are plummy incompetents in comparison to her.

[@shaystone4275]

It's nice to see somebody who can always find a merit in those they didn't particularly like. Very admirable!

[@ytyt3922]

You disliked her crushing of treasonous union terrorists?

[@Pharaohred]

@@ytyt3922 no chances are that she single handedly assfucked the northern workers by closing down a stupidly large amount of their employers bases. The problem with Mrs thatcher was that the longer she was prime minister the faster she forgot what it was like to be a normal person, which was exactly the thing that made her popular amongst normal people. Right idea, went the very wrong way about it.

[@dog-ez2nu]

Her mistake was trusting Tories. Say what you want about Labour but they won't backstab you easily.

[@joesila3105]

plummy incompetents :))))))

[@michael6255]

She was a force of nature at that dispatch box

[@djelalniyazi4090]

how treacherous they were, after three election wins they turn on her.

[@katiep2177]

When you propose something as shitty as poll tax, you can expect that.

[@gmcg246]

Pity we dont have somebody like Mrs.Thatcher Now to deal with The Brexit debuncle May should take a look at this performance.

[@chubeye1187]

@@gmcg246 yes Thatcher would scrap it. And not take shit from jrm

[@br2965]

Djelal niyazi that’s was pathetic

[@crazyfishmonster459]

@@katiep2177 The Poll Tax itself wasn't a terrible idea itself. Corruption at local government level meant that the tax was unduly harsh in certain areas and that was enough to diminish Thatcher's popularity. Were the tax administrated entirely centrally, it could have taken proper account of living standards / costs of living, and would have been more like a residence tax in that regard.

[@Discoretrox]

Great footage...used to love those Newsnight openings.

[@LetsGoGetThem]

4:30 That was Skinner who also said "Dodgy Dave" and refused to take it back. What a legend

[@Christinebanks11]

This is a piece of history .

[@aatmanraina9926]

Damn , how talented were the actors and actresses who worked in the crown , damn .

[@toloojane1766]

"She led them to Victory 3 times ,but now they turned their back on her" ungrateful

[@gabeadams2926]

That’s the rancorous world of politics unfortunately..

[@randomk7198]

Yes changing your view in a democracy how terrible

[@Thomas-ok9ot]

Thatcher evil

[@Masta2Playa]

Are you stupid?

[@bonnaud_dowell]

How journalism has gone downhill since this time !

[@night-creature2213]

William Bonnaud Dowell ...and far less airbrushing than nowadays...the faces on screen are so much more...human

[@dominichazell7862]

So factual and straightforward. Neutral too! Now we have about 200 interviewees per day on BBC News expressing their opinions, spreading the muck, which often makes it difficult to make your own mind up.

[@logicpolice2451]

Dominic Hazell 3:20 sounds like expressing an opinion to me

[@jamiengo2343]

Logic Police but neutral.

[@congealedbox7854]

Jamie Ngo not how opinions work

[@ryans756]

Utter nonsense. It's never been neutral and nor should it be.

[@darlig.ulv.bakhjerne]

how is that different from any other news outlet?

[@gustavotonnelli]

There’s no parliament in the world like the British parliament, I always have a good time watching them debating

[@ellesmith4564]

She must’ve left Buckingham Palace feeling ever so proud after being awarded ‘The Order of Merit’ from the Queen.

[@bitchfacehopkins9094]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@mimio008]

She resigned the year I was born. And yet, for all of my childhood I thought she still was the PM, for all the talk about her. (I wasn't living in the UK).

[@alvinailmie9571]

Because of where she spent the rest of her life after being PM-in a mental hospital…😮

[@KazgarothUsher]

Loving these archive posts :)

[@kenfletcher1240]

I remember that day so well. I was on a London tube train going to a meeting and at King's Cross station, the driver announced that she had resigned. The entire train burst into cheers and smiles. She was finished.

[@ritazanin1429]

London has no longer British people living there!

[@kenfletcher1240]

Mind your own business.

[@coltc5360]

@@better789lifehe’s old but his advanced years have made him neither smart or wise.

[@martinduran9523]

Shush. This was over 3 decades ago anyway

[@johnhumphrey9174]

Stabbed in the back by her own party. Then the stabbers eulagised her funny party the Conservatives

[@veggie42]

Because of the country. She was losing the country and costing money. If local authorities ended up unpaid,she wasn't any better than the Labour she knocked out in 1979!

[@Tempusverum]

Literally the Spitting Image. They’re as bad as the puppets portraying them.

[@stephaniedarko827]

@@veggie42 right very racist woman

[@evertonporter7887]

The Poll Tax was her undoing.

[@MultiCanaris]

Watched it live and never ever have I seen anything as impressive remarkable and brave as that last debate. She was ripping up the entire floor!

[@daystatesniper01]

Hate her or not ,one thing she was ,a good Parlimantarian

[@roseharvey2664]

No, nothing to admire about Thatcher.

[@foirie3187]

@@roseharvey2664 she kept falklands that was good

[@poopie4738]

Foirie she didn’t really do much for the uk public unless you were a rich southerner

[@Ben-vl5ew]

@@foirie3187 and in the recapture of the Falklands many soldiers died for a few islands

[@dazzabo5315]

@@foirie3187 at the expense of innocent lives during war crimes. Also killed many political lriso

[@eightiesmusic1984]

This is remarkable. I remember it like yesterday and where I was when I heard Margaret Thatcher had resigned. University of Leicester College Hall listening to the radio. It is interesting hearing the question about the impact of the Thatcher revolution. Thirty one years later it is clear that it made seemingly irreversible changes to society through the neoliberal consensus.

[@londoncalling151]

Sitting in Pat the Rat's French class in Carndonagh Community School when idiot McGuinness put his head round the door to say she'd resigned. The roof lifted.

[@christophergraves6725]

Of course, she was opposed to globalism and the blurring of lines among nations. Her opposing the increasing power of the E.U. is what led to her downfall. So-called conservatives who, then and now, want more economic and political integration with a powerful bureaucracy overseeing the "neo-liberal" economic order of free movement of capital and people wanted her out. The same people and their ideological descendants opposed Brexit.

[@cheerlessmarshes2768]

@@christophergraves6725 acting like her policies didn't put millions in poverty, what a twat

[@christophergraves6725]

@@cheerlessmarshes2768 There had to be an adjustment process after high inflation and labor excesses. Britain recovered and produced more jobs and improved the lot of most people after the recovery.

[@cheerlessmarshes2768]

@@christophergraves6725 referring to millions going into poverty as an "adjustment process" which still btw haven't yet recovered, she destroyed communities with her unrelenting neo liberal policies. Her descendants are still destroying the economy as we speak but yes all we have to fear is the "globalism" she was so against not the biggest assault the middle class has ever seen which she caused. All you right wingers are always the same always larping about the new shiny word whether it be "globalism" or "post modernism" or whatever you lot make up on a whim and not the actual problems people face

[@SiVlog1989]

Even though I wouldn't have been someone who would have voted for her (I was born the year before she resigned), I feel like it was a brutal way to force out a sitting Prime Minister. Margret Thatcher had been in office since 1979, won three General Elections in a row and won more votes in the leadership ballot against Michael Heseltine. But because of her being a few votes short of the overall majority required to win outright, her party turned on her. Having said that, some people I've spoken to who are old enough to remember it, said that they felt her years in Downing Street affected her judgement, leaving her out of touch with reality

[@elbo7755]

Sounds like you would have voted for her.

[@gerardcollins80]

The latter half of your comment was definitly one of the major reasons as to why Thatcher was ousted on top of her loosing the first Party ballot. You have to remember the wider context of the end of her premiership. The Community Charge was so unpopular it was causing riots, yet she refused to reverse her stance. Her years in power had definitly clouded her judgment and built her ego up to the point where she thought she knew better than everyone around her, didn't care for public opinion and wouldn't listen to any criticism.

[@SiVlog1989]

@@elbo7755 no, I made it clear at the beginning of my comment, I was merely saying, in a devil's advocate way, that it was a brutal way to be ousted

[@deancj1]

@@SiVlog1989 she was the queen of brutal. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

[@JohnDoe-nf6yk]

i hope she spent her last days in agony

[@Luic1987]

Anyone else able to recall why Edwina Currie might have been changing her mind circa 1:40?

[@CharlieFlemingOriginal]

I had no idea the ridiculous single currency thing started as far back as this. I was glad we didn't get the euro and kept the pound.

[@FlorentPlacide]

You made the right choice ! I'm French and I can tell you this German-designed currency fucked us over in a spectacular way (that and treacherous and corrupted politicians).

[@longshanks6788]

"Edwina Currie, may change her mind..." yeah, if Major bones her.....again...

[@johnnyjjpny7746]

She spoke with such conviction! And the manner of delivering her speeches !

[@Dave-kj4vr]

She sounds like she's been at the sherry

[@markalexwhite]

@@Dave-kj4vr 🙂

[@TheWeepingDalek]

so did hitler.

[@simondavies4834]

Always think of The Day Today when I see clips like this!!

[@Babihrse]

We will not... You will not?! You want me to say it... Yes I want you to say it! We will not flinch. Eventually cajoling the word war out of the man and the whole set turns into sky news September 12th 2001 onwards. The man on the video was the same person in the clip in the day today with Peter hanrahan. Best line was this is a nation on the edge positively bursting with war

[@DillRidge]

Look, everyone is there. No empty seats like when you watch CSpan. And it all seems so interactive and lighthearted.

[@anthonythatcherchurchilled285]

I think it could help the commons image that their chamber was designed by Churchill to be smaller than usual after its bombing so it would be more ferocious whereas the chambers in the US were designed to be bigger to be more grand.

[@ElSeto93]

Haha the Beast Of Bolsover at 4:30. Dennis Skinner is simply the best.

[@clonmore819]

Useless waste of space

[@kevinmorse8814]

Gone now, Rest in Beast 👍

[@euripides2134]

He's even better now.

[@cupcakefairy87]

Too bad he got voted out in December

[@samjoshi1812]

@@cupcakefairy87 Ah yea shame Corbyn was such a spectacular loser, an unnecessary sacrifice

[@MrWilko58]

Thatcher makes a statement about previous Labour Governments, but she could just as easily be talking about our current government.

[@veggie42]

Our current Government isn't socialist by a chalk. As Blairism wasn't really socialism more SDP

[@communismwillbeeradicated.6128]

@@veggie42 lockdowns? paying people to stay at home? mass immigration? plus all the pride crap (im gay btw) they are a left wing socialist government, they are blue labour, when liebour are in people will wake up (i hope) to see how crap we have it and a new party is what people will vote for.

[@takashimurakami6170]

Anybody still watching in 2020?

[@evertonporter7887]

I've just watched this today, after Boris Johnson's resignation.

[@solarsatan9000]

High over downing street one man is heroically fighting for Tory leadership BLONDMANNNNN

[@camron.w1841]

Heh, good to see spitting image on the comments.

[@TheDanrox110]

I’ve started watching archived British news clips to better understand Spitting Image. God those puppets are hilariously accurate

[@ronashapouri403]

Well hello there solar

[@solarsatan9000]

@@ronashapouri403 rona

[@KopitioBozynski]

I think I took the wrong turn somewhere. I was looking for a Newsnight archive but i somehow got to Spitting Image. It doesn't matter what I click all I keep finding is Spitting Image episodes and they're not even listed by episode or season. At least the lip syncing is getting better.

[@jackbowie1927]

There's a few things I noticed from this clip 1 there was a lot less woman there then and 2 they spoke very proper back then suppose it says something about how Britain has changed over the years

[@chartreusecircle1546]

Changed for the worse in my opinion. Britain is losing her culture. I say this as an uncouth Amerifat who has viewed the decay of Anglo-American civilization with despair.

[@wickedmonroe]

@@chartreusecircle1546 get a job, excercise , then fuck off

[@wickedmonroe]

@@chartreusecircle1546 what do you know about British culture ?

[@chartreusecircle1546]

wicked monroe A lot. Now go eat some porridge, brush your teeth, and get the fuck out of the EU already.

[@jorisbobson6828]

Oxy Berry There literally is no thing as “British Culture”, it’s an oversimplification and the way they spoke back then was made up to sound important. It’s called Received Pronunciation and does not belong to any region of the UK. What you hear today on both sides is more representative of the accents and cultures of the UK that were also around back then. You really don’t know what you’re on about.

[@alex-sv8ru]

Margret thatcher was pushed off the job,and Blair jumped off before someone would push him off.

[@evertonporter7887]

Scandals and resignations seem to be the norm these days. Whatever happened to stable, consistent government?

[@garyhunt764]

Regardless of what people think of her or her policies she was one strong willed lady and if she was with us now I think Brexit would have been finished with by now. Rest in peace Mrs Thatcher

[@planes124]

True

[@edytakural28]

Ding dong the witch is dead

[@samwilkinson2534]

@@edytakural28 Thatcher got put in a 📦

[@apeachonahill8059]

Thatcher got put in a spliff

[@lauralangham9657]

She never would have let Brexit happen !

[@Aniwazoa]

Is it me or did people talk slightly differently then compared to now. There is a subtle difference in the accents that I am picking up on. If this is not just my own perception then it probably shows how the British accent has and is still changing. Fascinating.

[@jamesbowden4871]

You are right. The accents of BBC presenters started changing after New Labour's victory in 1997. The Received Pronunciation became less affected and less refined by dropping the trilled 'r', for instance.

[@clemandax9242]

You’re right, Thatcher would have pronounced cat more like ‘cairt’, not quite as much as Americans but still noticeable

[@Babihrse]

I always it was just how the video and audio was recorded that caused that chipper accent.

[@joshuahowie1863]

Quite incredible how she was remembered as a near Christ-like figure when she died by the Tories. Of course, those same people stabbed her in the back and turfed her out. Never ever trust the Tories

[@UndergroundRaver85]

More like never trust Labour the champion Party of the scum of society and Britain's greatest war criminal and not to mention letting the banks regulate themselves

[@whatthefrickbro]

All the men in the chamber but Thatcher was the only person with balls!

[@peterduncan1436]

@James Mallon shush

[@felixvanmears]

Did she use her balls of steel to fund paramilitary organizations to commit terrorism in Northern Ireland? Or to destroy Unions?

[@willemgroen7546]

She's rotting now

[@Surgicaldamage]

There are some who insist that she made miners feel absolutely starving. And had police eat infront of them to rub that feeling of hunger into their bones. (Which is all they had at the time).

[@blast2686]

They were a quite a few men with balls too

[@aidanlunn7441]

Why has this been cropped to fit a widescreen frame? Why not show it in its original 4:3 format with black bars either side?

[@megustamegustaindeed5590]

Aidan Lunn that's probably what you should do when you re master video clips..

[@bentattersfield3610]

Back in the days when the Speaker was genuinely neutral!!!

[@tomfoley5837]

Still is

[@StuMas]

At 4:00 *Not surprising to hear that Labour's position on Europe is unclear!*

[@rollerbladinggeek5507]

they don't report in this kind of detail anymore... it's like kids reporting with no patience nowadays

[@DannyBoi2112]

So true

[@scrittle]

Don't forget spanning the same 2 stories over an entire month in a subtle form of propaganda. There's plenty of news happening all the time, yet all the BBC wants to do is drone on and on and on about "British interests". This all started during COVID when propaganda dictated we should be afraid. Truthfully, knowing how stupid people are, it was needed. But I've noticed a pattern in coverage as of late, what happened to wide coverage? All these highlights where the BBC repeats the same story without adding anything to it, it's poor quality. Gaza for example, completely replaced Ukraine in coverage, and got shafted to podcasts and web coverage. It's disgusting.

[@terrycarter4459]

Wasn't the speaker professional in these days.

[@j.chiari4222]

So is Bercow. Ordaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[@terrycarter4459]

@@j.chiari4222 WOW whatever your on I will have some :) Ordaaaaaaaaaaaa.

[@HeavensNightx]

@@j.chiari4222 ya clearly a downie

[@SleepExports]

@@j.chiari4222 Not anymore

[@jjenfield7444]

@@j.chiari4222 Bercow never remained impartial and was a bullying gob shite. So glad he’s gone

[@PJV1990]

I was only a few months old at the time, could anyone explain why the cabinet and a number of Conservatives were so against Michael Heseltine becoming PM? I find this political era fascinating and would like to learn more about it.

[@Secret19977]

PJV1990 because too many MPs had too much respect for her and were hardened thatcherites, also they didn’t want an extreme europhile to be leader of the party and he was the opposite to thatcher on policy so they didn’t want him, he was too left wing for many on the party

[@johnconlon9652]

In my opinion, as Doctor (medical) she was a psychopath. I witnessed the devastation she wrought in Scotland, responsible for many deaths, not only in the Falklands, but also amongst her own population. "Lady" Thatcher. The witch of Grantham. Venting my spleen.

[@Areflection4]

I remember cheering at the news although I recignised our society was changed forever- poverty was the fault of the individual, collective care of society was to be no more and people were discharged from mental health hospitals into communities without the resources to assist.

[@lugano1999]

The same exact thing in the US. Thanks to 12 years of Reagan-Bush the citiy streets of our country were filled with the homeless. Reagan and the GOP didn't care. Thatcher and the Tories didn't either. This hasn't changed all these years later.

[@inconnu4961]

@@lugano1999 You do realize the Left has absorbed all those mentally ill into their parties and even elected a few to government!

[@pizzaboy4463]

And look at the dross we've had since; both Labour and Conservative.

[@sonicstep]

Who is the prime minister? 😕 Oh, I remember now.

[@stefansyiemiong5881]

Magaret Thatcher was one of the great statesperson of Great Britain.Sadly she faced one of the greatest betryals in modern history,'Et tu Brute?'

[@stefansyiemiong5881]

After the second round of voting,none of her cabinet members,save for a few of her loyal ministers,were man enough to look her in the eye.Today they are not remembered but Magaret Thatcher has gone down in history as the IRON LADY!

[@dayram6217]

I didn't like her policy and ideas, it was terrible. But how much i admire her style of leadership, courage. She as a woman in the 70s

[@forlorndream1400]

John Major sitting there like he wasn't the most craven apology of a man that ever existed in the modern world.

[@PhilipJackson03]

4:33 why I love both of em.

[@margaretthatcher1617]

Worst day of my life

[@margaretthatcher1617]

Surprise

[@emilian7052]

Ding dong the wicked witch is dead

[@margaretthatcher1617]

🖕🏻

[@emilian7052]

@@margaretthatcher1617 aw is lwittle maggie waggie upset (!)

[@Mat89-90]

Anyone else coming back to watch this today after Liz Truss resigned?

[@fergalgriffin5858]

Yeap ,sure who could forget her

[@francofan100]

Truss wasn’t actually that bad in the Commons, it seemed like all her gaffes were elsewhere.

[@toyotaprius79]

Well aren't the times looking like they're in vogue, huh?

[@artemisia770]

Honestly found the weirdest thing to be Jeremy paxman with hair that isn’t pure silver

[@mehmetkaygisiz9379]

Still watching it 2020

[@naturestreams4033]

Now I know where that character umbridge from harry potter was based. Lol

[@tangerinelover69]

This is exactly like the day today

[@Excalibur5567]

Anyone else think John Major looking a little grey?

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

That was how the original Spitting Image portrayed him too. Very grey.

[@b.9811]

Watching this in 2021 How did i land here🙈💃 corona brought me here 😷❤❤☺☺

[@GabrielA-mw4in]

Iconic theme tune...wish it was as good today

[@jamesbibby3650]

Back in the old days they did love their tactics. Peter snow is a great character as well, I love his shows about historical battles.

[@saints16o5o87]

thats peter snow and son dan , his brother john is the channel 4 news presenter,

[@jamesbibby3650]

brian marshall yes you are right. I did not check the name.

[@saints16o5o87]

@@jamesbibby3650 they do have same jobs which is strange but predictable old boys network stuff

[@nfltrrrqwsa7512]

0:47 a really good person.

[@colinmayfordcolin884]

A magnificent performance by Lady Thatcher. She was vastly better than all the rest, of whatever party!

[@fy1755]

Tell that to the fkn miners

[@TheWeepingDalek]

ding dong the witch is dead.

[@fy1755]

@@TheWeepingDalek brilliant

[@marksurgeon3088]

Trators. They should be ashamed the way they betrayed her.

[@tomsoki5738]

5:30 Holy shit, did she predict the Gulf War?

[@euanrichardson5630]

"the thatcher era is over". The best words ever heard on British television

[@hansgruber788]

Ignorant bastard can't even spell era correctly

[@evertonporter7887]

The milk snatching wicked witch's reign came to an end, and I watched the whole Shakespearian drama unfold on the small screen! Truly one of Television's greatest moments.

[@Sameoldfitup]

“It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

[@allenwhiteley1074]

It's like looking at a mirror image between Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson both have the same noise.

[@dnakatomiuk]

I wonder how she would handle the current pandemic ?? She would have got Brexit over with a shorter timeline,

[@Midge-xn9tp]

We’d no longer be in it, certainly the depth of shit wouldn’t be as deep

[@RBenjo21]

The report released today shows us that no one could have handled the first wave well: SAGE had a blank cheque in the first wave and Boris did everything they said. They were just horrifically bad.

[@YarmFaoJor]

You should upload in 4:3 not crop to 16:9....

[@TheAlchemistEmpire]

0:21 when your custom character appears in a cutscene

[@alexiel4406]

I've heard much about the Iron Lady and I must say I am impressed, she was and is a leader with balls and a will to do something about it, got to love her

[@joethornley6852]

shes a witch

[@joethornley6852]

she killed this country

[@artofthepossible7329]

@@joethornley6852 She killed the community by destroying as many socialist policies as possible and having places like the coal mines removed from the job market as they were not economically viable. But little of the country itself was destroyed especially compared to what came before.

[@dannymyles22]

She killed this country. She did alot of bad to scotland, northern Ireland and wales. She killed working class communities. Whilst Thatcher maybe dead....thatcherism lives on. Some argue that 2008 financial crisis was helped by her policies....think that one through. She was a divisive figure and if you lived through her period of leadership then you are best placed to comment.

[@ProjectOverseer]

The collapse of British industry = Thatcher. I remember well, sadly.

[@mathewrose1662]

The best leader of the 20th century after Sir Winston Churchill & she was hounded out by backstabbers. God Bless Baroness Thatcher & thank you x.

[@Ewan-xw3er]

Please stop

[@Shane-zx4ps]

Fool

[@evertonporter7887]

As much of a wicked witch she was, at least she never got embroiled in any scandals.

[@youknowme2252]

Dont know why but I found this lady an amazing character.

[@sir.spider]

You should maybe drop that, she ruined the lives of so many miners and Scots. She’s a devilish bitch

[@lemonade_011]

Sir Spider Aha But More the North England as second class Citizens ,, Miners,, like Scots

[@samwilkinson2534]

Unless you're southern or a Northern Irish Unionist then your life was made worse because of her. The reason North Wales, North England and Scotland aren't as developed as the South today is for her fault and no one elses, treating her own citizens like second class citizens. (She did well with the Argies though got to admit)

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

The moment she delivered that performance in the house of commons the consertavie party realised they had made a colossal mistake

[@Thiborfirenz]

i still remember exactly where i was when I heard the news that she had resigned! and I bet everyone else that is my age and from my home town does too! I'm from grantham, thatchers childhood home town and I was 14 years old at the time. thatcher was the only prime minister that I had ever known, (not having been old enough to remember calahagn) and her resignation tho not unexpected was truly momentous!

[@nirix1599]

One of the worst days in British history to see such a good leader resign

[@johnking5174]

To be fair she did stay too long. I believe 1989, when she celebrated 10 years in office, would have been the perfect and respectable time for her to have retired. She had won three elections by that point, and she would have left with more dignity, than seen to be clinging on to the door of No.10 for grim death.

[@KultrunAus]

lol

[@brute_lin2023]

@@johnking5174 tell that to Robert Walpole he lasted 20 years!!! and yes I know it was old times. but 20 years!!!!

[@inconnu4961]

@@brute_lin2023 Or the revolving door of PMs during the 1920's & 1930's.

[@5gonza541]

I can't understand how they turned on her.

[@kennethbrynleyjohnsweet4252]

She...was...evil!

[@5gonza541]

@@kennethbrynleyjohnsweet4252 So evil she got chosen 3 times in a row 🙄

[@meltedmyth1135]

@@5gonza541 she fucked over anywhere not south England and fucked the lgbt+ community at the very least but hey yeh she was great🙄

[@evertonporter7887]

As much as a wicked witch she was, at least her reign was free of scandal.

[@jonmortermusic]

I was on a school art trip to the Tate that very day. I overheard on of the security guards there talking about it and when we all got back on the coach our teacher Miss Dartford announced Thatcher had resigned to a big cheer from us all. On our way out we drove through Parliament Square and in the traffic we saw Heseltine's green Jaguar

[@inconnu4961]

All the little skulls full of mush! The left sure adores you; you grow up to become more Useful Idiots!

[@diamondgeezer3962]

the single most dominant force in political and public life and voted the most Influential Women of all Time F..KING LOVE IT.

[@DokktorDeth]

Voted by whom? The Monday club? The 1922 backbench committee? Every tinpot dictator on planet earth? Celebrate 8th April.

[@emersondownie9955]

voted in by the british people in 1979 who else. she came she saw she conquered.the rest is history as one says.

[@giansideros]

@@emersondownie9955 she only got 43.9 percent of the public vote, only in a system as unfair as British democracy could someone like Thatcher not even command the vote of even half of the electorate but command all the power to decide on everyone's behalf and she did so incompetently. In the two subsequent elections she only managed to get 42.4 and 42.2 percent of the vote, she never had a mandate to rule, same with everyone who came before and after including the comparably despicable Tony Blair. The last time this joke of a political system gave us a government with a majority was in 1931 under Tory Stanley Baldwin, if you exclude the recent farce of the faustian Con Dem coalition.

[@shoulders-of-giants]

We have a famous saying in Germany that goes along thinking like yours. People tend to shout it and raise their right arm alongside it.

[@TheAwesomeTolga198]

@@giansideros So, what system do have as a replacement?

[@oliveradams8711]

Ending at 5:19, Tory Backbencher: 'Cancel your resignation! You can wipe the floor with these people!' I have wondered for years who that backbencher was. Can anyone tell me? If only she had been able to follow that suggestion.

[@harmlessdrudge]

Michael Carttiss, a Eurosceptic MP and later a Maastricht rebel.

[@stevenyearn3035]

COWARDS AND BACKSTABBERS,, what’s changed!! GOD BLESS YOU MY QUEEN MAGGIE. YOU HELPED ME SO MUCH IF ONLY WE HAD YOU NOW,,,,REST IN PEACE. What a good idea you was incredible!

[@mkrbrtsn1]

I used to love watching Newsnight with Paxman.

[@mcdelive]

Lol Look at Paxman.....!