Lord Heseltine gives his views on Baroness Thatcher

[@MegaDarryl1]

The hatred between tebbitt and heseltine is still there......

[@anonUK]

To be fair, any reasonable human being should hate Tebbit.

[@joshb20101]

Its obvious they wanted anyone, even major to succeed thatcher, other than heseltine.

[@robertcottam8824]

Quite. Weren’t they silly sausages?

[@MarkSmith-tp6zc]

Tarzan the demagogue was useless.

[@1Thedairy]

I was just shocked by his comments about Margaret Thatcher when he implied she came from a lower status than the usual Conservative (being grammar school educated while the rest were public school) and that once she got a taste of politics she rose above her station. As a woman I think you can really judge a man when he makes statements like that.

[@thesaint8400]

Women make those sort of statements and harbour those kind of beliefs too.

[@robertcottam8824]

Well, he wasn’t wrong was he? The problems that Thatchwitch always had were obvious to all of us old-fashioned, one-nation Tories - ie. CONSERVATIVES - when she was elected: On the one hand, she was a frightful snob, both over-keen and yet unable to impress those whom SHE considered her betters. On the other, she resented us terribly at the same time, wanting to bring us down, no matter the cost to the country (notably the Foreign Office). At the same time, she despised those whom she considered ‘beneath’ her in socio-economic terms. AND, she was outrageously and nauseatingly anti-intellectual. Worst of all, she was too hardworking so that she did more damage than a lazy-stupid person would have been able to do. She was vile. Toodlepip.

[@danielbliss1988]

He meant that as a compliment. I can't begin to emphasize how much of a barrier this kind of thing was in the British class system, and how much the modernizing element of the 1980s Tories admired people who broke through that even when it was from a person they significantly disagreed with otherwise. And it rubbed off; Thatcher's successor John Major was not only not public-school (i.e. private school) educated but he had to all intents and purposes dropped out of high school by US standards and his college-level qualification was a distance-learning course in banking that he earned while working for the local electric utility.

[@duncanbull959]

This is one reason and there are many reasons that I loathe Heseltine .

[@robertcottam8824]

Have you met him, poppet? He’s a lovely bloke. Very good host; excellent conversationalist; very down-to-earth; remarkably shrewd. If you met him, you’d be charmed. Pip pip.

[@godzooke]

Heseltine. The man who represents his own legacy so well. A knave in comparison to a courageous political giant such as Thatcher. Total sour grapes.

[@ZerubbabeMinistries2002]

Talk about leading questions! Heseltine had one thing he believed in.

[@alexanderv7702]

Did the U.K. get what it needed when John Major became Prime Minister?

[@kevinbrown4073]

Splitting image's depiction of haseltine as blonde man is spot on

[@sabesque6461]

Heseltine is a hater. Give credit where its due, most the men in the conservative party at that time were weak. Thatcher led by her conviction, made the tough decisions and never budged despite the hate, protests and naysayers like Heseltine.

[@robertcottam8824]

What a lovely comment. I like your ‘nounification’ of the verb ‘to hate’. It’s so charmingly council-estate-teenager. Sometimes, we all need a bit of a giggle, don’t we? Bless you. 🙏

[@SuperFerdie1965]

What a hater Hesetine is. How he resents anyone getting the leadership apart from himself. A sad and bitter old man, quite comical though to the many who despise him.

[@billclinton3862]

Heseltine would of been great, He could of Repaired the relationship between us and Europe and Maybe even saved some of the British industry

[@robertcottam8824]

What a charmingly council-estate-teenage word ‘hater’ is. I would have thought that Thatchwitch was more your great-grandmother’s generation than yours, poppet.

[@ZiggyMercury]

Nice article, but I feel an urge to mention that if his opponents indeed said that Heseltine's lack of praise for Margaret Thatcher is just a case of "sour grapes" resulting from his failure to win the Tory leadership (and thus to become prime minister), then they misunderstand the meaning of this idiom: "sour grapes" applies to a situation in which someone fails to achieve something, and then, in order to comfort themselves, they convince themselves the thing they've failed to achieve isn't worth it anyway. It comes from a fable in which a fox that tried to reach high-hanging grapes failed to reach them, so he comforted himself by convincing himself that these grapes were probably sour anyway. It has nothing to do with jealousy. If Michael Heseltine was to go all "sour grapes" about this issue, that would have had to involve him disparaging the appeal of getting to be a prime minister, not the significance of Margaret Thatcher's years as prime minister.

[@robertflanagan2636]

Do you mean ‘envy’? I think you may have chosen the word ‘jealousy’ in your haste to seem erudite? As Thatcher said ‘think, thinking is so important.’

[@ZiggyMercury]

@@robertflanagan2636 Well, I think (...) you're right. But, in my defense, I'm not a native English speaker (and have never lived in an English-speaking country). But yeah, thanks for getting me to find out that "envy" and "jealousy" aren't the same! You live and learn.

[@markbennett2464]

Hesletine will be remembered for nothing other than Westland and his bitterness, jealousy and his own self indulgence. Thank god he was never elected

[@stephenreeds3632]

Excuse me, he did his very best to keep Liverpool going when she wanted the city to die.

[@paulkeogh3518]

Thatcher saved the country and the Conservative Party Heseltine was not fit to carry her handbag.

[@philliplloyd6977]

Like heath he couldn’t bear someone like mrs thatcher becoming prime minister. His bitterness has no rivals. What will he be remembered for? Exactly nothing!!

[@robertcottam8824]

Hmmm. I’ll remember him as a good bloke, as charming company, a very good employee of several of my chums at Haymarket. Michael is no intellectual but he’s pretty shrewd all the same: Bright enough and certainly WAY out of Margaret’s lead, let alone the thug, Tebbit. He’ll be remembered more widely for his integrity, for bringing down Thatchwitch and for his excellent work in the wake of the riots of 1981 - notably in Liverpool. Toodles

[@BradleyWilliams-vu4us]

She was far more intelligent than heseltine,it got right up his nose….

[@tubularbill]

Sour grapes on the part of Heseltine....

[@SuperFerdie1965]

Heseltine is just like an anorexic Heath where Mrs T is concerned.

[@DerafsheKavian]

Did Mrs. Thatcher's so called achievements benefit Britain at all?

[@veggie42]

Not much but she did change society

[@parmindersinghsidhu4734]

I like mr Hesltine. Mrs Thatcher was cold and uncaring and then she had the cheek to call herself Christian.

[@ZerubbabeMinistries2002]

She was a Christian. She was caring just practical.

[@kevindare3113]

Everyone hates a winner in the uk, and thatcher was a winner, if you want to be liked don’t go in to politics.

[@BN-hk6wf]

Some of Mrs Thatcher’s policies may well have been adopted under Ted Heath, but he was too wet and sloppy to implement them, like most of his colleagues. Lord Heseltine’s failure to recognise this is at best churlish.

[@MagicNash89]

Lookin at today's Britain Im increasingly unsure if her time in power was all that beneficial, so many British industries perished in her time and shortly after. Was financial London really worth it?

[@duncannapier318]

Trade union reforms, the change in state private sector balance, privatisation could that all have been achieved without Margaret Thatcher? Yes. Better question is would it have been achieved without Margaret Thatcher? NO NO NO. 👍🇿🇦

[@ThomasBoyd-gx9wr]

Hatred between Norman Tebbit and Michael Heseltine politically reflect on Mrs Thatcher conservative party running Britain for 11 and half years end of era Begining 13 years New Labour government under Tony Blair from 1997 to 2010 politically in England.

[@kevindare3113]

Traitor

[@Mortimer_Duke]

Love Tebbitt’s “One-ball juggler” analogy.

[@rayrussell1519]

did tebbitt hate hesletine

[@robbryant52]

Hes a bitter man knowing Margaret Thatcher did what he wanted to do and much more the only difference she did do it he just talks about doing it

[@marksmith7425]

Heseltine was the slimiest politician ever in both political parties .He was a traiter to this country and the Tory party .Luckily he never got to be the Pm and the reason was he was hated by most of the tory party.

[@wilsonfisk6626]

B.S. Thatcher was slimier than everyone except Blair. She stabbed Ted Heath in the back, bullied her cabinet, and sold off state owned enterprises for less than they were worth. Don't forget the poll tax!

[@marksmith7425]

@@wilsonfisk6626 You obviously no nothing about politics so you are not worth any more of my precious time .

[@wilsonfisk6626]

@@marksmith7425 How so?

[@mothermovementa]

The short answer is no.😂

[@robbryant52]

Hes a snob no more no less

[@macsmiffy2197]

We are definitely living in the debt her policies created. 🤬

[@robertflanagan2636]

😂