Early Margaret Thatcher Interview Outlines Thatcherism (1976)

[@craigsimons817]

This country needs a leader of her gravitas and resolve now, more than ever, to arrest the nation’s decline.

[@moonsovermiami101]

There simply is no person in British politics today that could even stand up to her ankles! The HoP is a rats nest

[@fabidee]

A time when the hosts would be polite and listen, not make it all about themselves and their bias!

[@OldFArt-gx9fh]

He is biased all right. All his questions are about endangering socialist policies. I greet though, he is polite.

[@caterpillar1936]

He was constantly interrupting and wasnt listening. He's the same

[@martineznuno9826]

- Government believes in fair deals for the whole population - Emphasizes need for restraint in government spending - Acknowledges importance of trade unions in society - Criticizes socialism for tolerating high unemployment rates - Highlights success of North Sea oil in creating new jobs - Supports consultation with trade unions for fair deals - Advocates for incentives to boost economy instead of complete restraint - Addresses need for public expenditure cuts and potential increase in unemployment - Discusses immigration policy and need to regulate dependent settlement numbers - Emphasizes importance of understanding facts before making decisions

[@allykhan8594]

On economic matters she was truly in tune, the madness of the tories now she would call them socialists.

[@gb1984yt]

She was the last good one, whether you liked her or not, you knew who was running things.

[@paulcarbonaro6748]

In her earliest political days, she had to fight endlessly to be accorded even minimal respect as a female trying to establish a foothold in the male dominated political system. She achieved that. It wasn't given to her. Additionally, she made sure she got a great education. Her father was 'just' a butcher. Her academic success wasn't given to her. And when she was a token female member of Ted Heath's Conservative government, she had to fight for recognition. It wasn't something just given to her. Finally, when she became PM in '79, Britain was an absolute shambles in just about every way imaginable. Ironically, the labour unions fought their Labour government at every turn because they actually wanted freedom to bargain and not be restrained in what they could earn. She earned her position as Conservative Party leader, and deserved to become PM.

[@makhnothecossack4948]

"Her father was a butcher?" No he wasn't, he was a grocer and a politician, he wasn't some everyman. The only reason Thatcher has "such a rough childhood" was because her father was a Methodist.

[@JupiterThunder]

The Tory party only let her become Tory leader because they thought it was a poisoned chalice. They knew someone had to do some difficult things, that it would make them very unpopular and they thought whoever led them in government would last only one term. That backfired and she won again in 83 and again in 87. Then the public schoolboys decided they wanted their party back from what they regarded as a middle class oik, so they fabricated a dispute over Europe and stabbed her in the back to get rid of her.

[@highdefboxing8056]

Margaret Thatcher's father was a shopkeeper, not a butcher.

[@makhnothecossack4948]

@@highdefboxing8056 Apparently the shop specialized in meat I think, I might be wrong though, but he wasn't a poor man, not at all.

[@highdefboxing8056]

@@makhnothecossack4948 No, his shop was a greengrocer's, so specialising more in fruit and veg than meat. He was also an Alderman on Grantham Council. He was also Mayor of Grantham for one year.

[@iCyclone]

Her voice is hypnotic. So velvety and smooth.

[@SanFran51]

This was before her revamp.

[@pkelly5149]

9:42 Maggie on immigration "We cannot go on taking people at the rate we have been" This interview was in 1976. 😂😂😂

[@19037vinny]

She'd be so angry at Sunak .

[@BossySwan]

Fearless and visionary. And an era of quality journalism that allowed detailed answers not inane gotcha rubbish.

[@carmencita2204]

Excellent. Today we have the same unsolved problems. We need her politics back.

[@merseybeat1963]

After what Blair did..

[@19037vinny]

MT was for power to the people. To help each person to prosper. Like to think she'd solve the migrant crisis the UK has got.

[@jozefserf2024]

Margaret Thatcher is as fine an example of the dangers of being in an echo chamber as ever there was. Years later it's clear that she was the best PM in our lifetime.

[@marionwest3661]

She was highly articulate, strong, determined, and not for turning. We could do with someone like her these days.

[@laxeystu8096]

What would you have today's leaders doing? There was a clear need for reform in the 70s, but is that the case today?

[@hudldevice1092]

​@@laxeystu8096Unfortunately, things seem to have turned full circle with the Government making the same - or similar - mistakes that were made in the 1970s. People forget the lessons of history.

[@laxeystu8096]

@hudldevice1092 Theres no room for rounds of privatisation, spending cuts and tax cuts today as there was, arguably, for Mrs T in the 80s We live in Thatchers Britain, but with an underperforming economy, and increasing public services' expectations and consequently high taxes, but I don't see how Mrs T would have solved that

[@dindjarin7185]

You're joking she destroyed Liverpool, Brixton, and Glasgow.

[@hudldevice1092]

@@laxeystu8096 The tragedy is that we no longer live in 'Thatcher's Britain'; her reforms have largely been reversed and the UK has been subjected to a re-establishment of socialism. The high-tax, high-spend, high-regulation policies we've seen over the past twenty-five years are what keeps the UK's economy underperforming.

[@leonhue722]

Yep, she would sort out the refugee and protest marches problems in no time !

[@Transformer-x6t]

I WISH we had SOMEONE like this now

[@davidk7262]

Most of us are thoroughly delighted we do not. Judge her on her record…..a slight increase in unemployment she said……more than doubled.

[@Transformer-x6t]

@@davidk7262 We did. She brought Britain back from begging to the IMF and being unable to bury our dead to be an 80's powerhouse and respected on the worlds stage again. The unfortunate thing is that in the present day, there is no one with this intellect available across any party, I can only imagine her having to deal with the nonsense issues of today like "what is a woman?".

[@GA-wq8xq]

@@davidk7262which then went down as the economy shifted. She was a strong, intelligent leader and had a coherent ideological framework - not playing to the gallery with PR stunts

[@illomens2766]

@@GA-wq8xq Ask the Irish and Scottish if they share your (wrong) view of things.

[@ДмитрийЕвстафьев-э1й]

Браво Маргарет! Мы любим Вас! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤❤

[@khar12d8]

I'm not anti Thatcher, i think Britain did need some of the changes she brought. But it's funny hearing her talk about how she would worry if she lost her job because she comes from a humble background. Yes she did. She also married a millionaire in her 20s and he subsidised her career while sending their kids to boarding school. Also, unemployment more than doubled under Thatcher. Over 3 million.

[@BossySwan]

By the mid 80s unemployment was falling. Many of the jobs lost were in unsustainable industries ruined by union militancy.

[@TheVote2010]

@@BossySwanI agree. However, what replacement jobs/training were put in place for the millions who lost jobs in these old subsidised industries? That’s the issue. That’s always been the issue.

[@BossySwan]

@@TheVote2010 there are good example of successful Enterprise Zones to replace old industry, for example in Corby after the steelworks shut in 1980.

[@Muzzy68]

You over look the study she did and what she achieved and the out of work she did and get dedication (regardless of your political views).

[@TheVote2010]

@@BossySwan most of the enterprise zones were in the south of England, not in the poorest parts of the north which heavily relied on these industries. Why do you think their remains a strong resentment in these places to Thatcherism? Her ideas were smart and needed, but the way they were implemented contributed to the north/south divide and allowed our economy to rely far too heavily on the service sector. We no longer produce anything like we used too.

[@lisbetsoda4874]

She dared say what was necessary to say and do.

[@stevebbuk9557]

I wonder what happened to Willie Whitelaw's register of dependants?

[@JamalBrown-k1x]

Really, she didn't reduce spending like she says here.

[@timneale8869]

One women prime minister that got things done and not just say it. And yes Maggie thatcher did get things wrong too.

[@chinkayeok6117]

Which human who will not err? Not to the extend of accepting bribes like leaders today 😅

[@drysia26]

Yeah, she got things done and they were mostly terrible!

[@paulec2634]

What a blow dry and colour - spectacular!

[@EricLehner]

Bravo Thatcher.

[@stephendavies925]

She put the word GREAT back into Britain

[@nialloneill5097]

GREAT FAILURE...the working class were what made this country great...and as has now been proved...she lied lied and damn well lied... to destroy them...never interested in negotiations...lies...and sold us to the Neiliberal's model of casino capiltalism...now see where that has taken us.. we are broke...all our crown jewels paid for by hard working tax paying workers...given away to tax evading rich...who simply wanted to be more rich...with no thought for the masses and those working class communities...what goes around comes around...she and her followers will go through the gates of hell...and much of the south as known from the prophecies of Irlmaier will lay on the ocean bed after the Russians nuke the east coast,,,then, and only then...finally...the north and the UK will be free of the imperial colonialists and thieving rich...

[@doctorsocrates4413]

My youth was spent under the leadership of margaret and times just seemed to be better than they are today..Wish she was still here...rip iron lady.

[@timholder6825]

What planet were you living on?

[@doctorsocrates4413]

@@timholder6825 a far better one than you obviously..yeah you moaning lot just carry on blaming thatcher for everything...enjoy your sunak tory govt lol..best of luck .

[@DannieGemz]

probably oxford or some other toff southern town@@timholder6825

[@sratus]

You have to be joking, she ripped the country into pieces. All she did was make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

[@doctorsocrates4413]

@@timholder6825 they were better than now...enjoy your sunak govt lol

[@Robby334]

Personally, I adored Margaret Thatcher, a great leader who stood no-nonsense, many have no idea what she did for our country. Thanks, Mrs T

[@laxeystu8096]

She did make many serious reforms in the country, but she also left many behind Her legacy on industrial heartlands, housing, and equality is poor She was good for some, but for those who needed help (and still do), she was disastrous

[@ottconsulting7]

She unleashed the greed, materialist, selfish dog eat dog forces that have broken this country.

[@Robby334]

@@ottconsulting7 nah she saved this country

[@laxeystu8096]

@ottconsulting7 Amongst a few maybe, but I still know lots of nice people She did popularise an idea that 'ordinary people' could make money themselves 'entrepeneurially': through investments, starting businesses, letting property, but I don't think that's so bad Most of what she did was to save the government money and make the country more affordable, and very little of it has been undone

[@ΑναστασηςΜποτσας]

...θυμάμαι ότι μετά το θάνατο της η οικονομία της Αγγλίας δεν πήγαινε καλά...

[@anthonyshirley9928]

The best one .I just wonder what she would say about our pensioners being robbed.

[@martincaddell3347]

Probably one of the best prime ministers Britain has ever had.

[@robbillington1982]

These kinds of people are very rare indeed

[@ngangajeremiah9912]

Lie....... women have nothing to lead with.

[@poetlaureate7334]

absolutely....now its like theres no adults in the room anymore since she left.

[@robertcottam8824]

Certainly better than the last five Tory goons. But bring superior to Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak is scant reason for celebration, is it?

[@billthornton5463]

​@@robbillington1982Wasn't expecting to find such an encouraging comment.

[@vordman]

Listen to her conviction. Mrs T knew her stuff. How we need someone like her now.

[@gerardmackay8909]

Liz Truss had conviction too. You need pragmatists not stubborn ideologues like this dreadful woman. The Poll Tax was her undoing and in point of fact once Willie Whitelaw had gone and was no longer a restraining influence on her she went full loco.

[@misst.e.a.187]

Doesn't make her right. She listened to no one and was an utter task master (mistress)

[@JamalBrown-k1x]

She didn't reduce spending, and she said there would only be a small rise in unemployment and how bad 1.5 million are unemployed. She also did not get to where she was on her own, she was married to a very rich buiness man.

[@SanFran51]

No. She was Oxford Educated.

[@JamalBrown-k1x]

@@SanFran51 I think you've replied to the wrong person.

[@JamalBrown-k1x]

@SanFran51 Please clarify what you mean, because ot makes no sense.

[@JamalBrown-k1x]

@SanFran51 So, what's the relivents of your comment ?. She went to Oxford and studied chemistry and later on law. So what ?.

[@splodge57]

​@@JamalBrown-k1xshe got to where she was by her own hard work. Nothing to do with her husbands money.

[@dianacrainiciuc8440]

What a pleasant voice she has and her English is a delight to my ears.

[@adamsmith4813]

Private enterprise turned out really well, except it needed bailing out with public money to an extent never seen before

[@HepCatJack]

Why didn't private Enterprise just reduce its spending as she suggested ?

[@adamsmith4813]

@@HepCatJack because that's the nature of capitalism, it's characterised by greed, inherent in every aspect of enterprise from financial institutions to market places.

[@0w784g]

@@adamsmith4813 Yet socialism always falls to greed also. Funny that, isn't it?

[@adamsmith4813]

@@0w784g is that greed because of the inherent nature of the socialist premise or because it hasn't conquered capitalism fully yet? I know you will say 'greed is human nature and socialism and capitalism are subject to it' but this is not the case in humans outside of civil society

[@0w784g]

@@adamsmith4813 Ah, you're going for the tried and true "we've never had proper socialism" route.

[@Guardian__Angel]

She was incredibly articulate, persuasive, and authoritative. A natural leader.

[@jimdavis8391]

No, she was, I think, rather ordinary. Politicians now are...sub optimal, to say the least. Thatcher's grasp of economics was limited and by the mid 1980s it showed.

[@Guardian__Angel]

@@jimdavis8391 You gotta be kidding. 😆 Just because you don't agree with her politically, doesn't mean that you need to dismiss her as lacking knowledge. Far from it. Her grasp of economics was excellent and she paved the way for the UK's economic resurgence in the 90s.

[@jimdavis8391]

@@Guardian__Angel Oh, no, I agreed with and still agree with many of her policies. She was, however easily flattered and Keith Joseph, Madsen Pirrie and others were able to manipulate her with ease. Finally 'Tarzan' and the 'sheep' were able to defeat her. Many women possessed skills not dissimilar to Thatcher at that time. A great paradox is that, in the intervening 40 years feminism has largely propelled women backwards. Yet much of Thatcher's politics, especially economics, is that of the small business or shop.

[@Guardian__Angel]

@@jimdavis8391 She was called the Iron Lady for a good reason. Succumbing to flattery and manipulation was simply not part of her leadership style. As for other women at the time possessing similar skills, sure, there were. Thatcher didn't live in a vacuum and she was not the only strong-willed and capable woman in the country. Yet, she was the only one who became Prime Minister and had her way, so you need to give her credit for that.

[@jimdavis8391]

@Guardian__Angel Sorry I disagree with you regarding her economic abilities. In the short term she was effective at curbing the power of the unions and balancing the books. Longer term her naivety regarding human behaviour caused untold damage to the social fabric and cohesion of Britain. Up until c1985 pretty good afterwards, patchy. The obsessive privatisation has been clearly shown to be foolhardy at best. I think my judgement of her is a balanced one. In some ways Blair's first administration mirrors that of Thatcher, after 2001 he became increasingly dogmatic and detached from reality. Those who are truly great are able to accept flux and react fluidly and Thatcher was by the mid 80s overly doctrinaire and her lack of 'human resources' became painfully obvious.

[@michaelmarzano2759]

Brilliant woman ❤

[@dindjarin7185]

🤦‍♂️

[@aclark903]

@@dindjarin7185Only now, 40 years later have we returned to the kind of chaotic strikes we had before she entered office in #1979. She saved Britain from union malarky for decades.

[@dindjarin7185]

@@aclark903 She destroyed Britain. Plus, in her first years in office, there was a recession and rising unemployment.

[@dindjarin7185]

@@aclark903 Let's not forget she and her party were part of the Hillsborough conspiracy.

[@keir92]

Awful woman

[@jackknightsbridge5232]

She did what was good and necessary for the whole nation in the long run, instead of virtue-signalling and pandering to what seemed trendy and popular. She was strong in values and principles, and yet was able to realise them through practical means. In other words, she was the very definition of a great leader.

[@adamsmith4813]

Except now we've had the long run we can now realise how simple and ridiculous her policies and ideology were. Even the tories have just about abandoned anything she stood for

[@jackknightsbridge5232]

@@adamsmith4813 the Tories have been in decline precisely because they abandoned her approach. She brought Britain back from the brink of socialist abyss, it was well recognised and documented. Then the UK had a string of weak, ignorant politicians who care more about how they look in front of the public than the public.

[@anne-pierredepeyronnet3204]

Le Président Emmanuel Macron de la République Française, serait bien inspiré d’écouter ce que dit Maggy. Mais bon, comme le disait Brassens : « le temps ne fait rien à l’affaire, quand on est … » Et Maggy confirme : It is a very silly person who says: I am going bankrupt the way I am spending, but I cannot afford to stop. » Jeanne au secours!

[@skeckersley]

If only we had her vision and determination now!

[@adamsmith4813]

We do have the hindsight and that's what makes her look so stupid now

[@sourishbanjo5037]

Iconic hairstyle

[@phillipc3286]

The eyes of Caligula the hair of Monroe

[@misst.e.a.187]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@louisgonzalez8846]

And the mind of a TRUE LEADER.!!!!

[@phillipc3286]

Who wass ousted by her own party

[@patsyparisi2620]

@@louisgonzalez8846 a psychopath more like

[@AGn-01]

More like Myra Hindley

[@lostgleammedia]

Is she the reason Britain is massively wealthy now, no longer the Old Man of Europe... i really want to know if she started what we have now... the roads full of BMWs Mercs Jags, £300,000 houses going up on every spare bit of land, the supermarkets full of luxury food... Britain wasn't like this before she took over.

[@jeremiahpoole6526]

People cannot afford to have children now because family homes are becoming increasingly unaffordable. To remedy, we import the workforce via legal immigration. All depends how you define ‘wealthy’?

[@lostgleammedia]

@jeremiahpoole6526 but what is happening that the malls of Britain are full of people shopping, a McDonalds on every street always busy. People didn't have that kind of lifestyle in Britain before the 80s. I don't understand this people can't afford houses, all the £300,000 houses they build are being bought by people... average people didn't live in nice houses the way many do now. I just don't understand what is going on

[@LCTesla]

great sarcasm 😂

[@simonjackson7206]

The reason prices are so high now are all about supply and demand. In the 80’s and 90’s there were massive house building programs. Since 2005 hardly any new houses and yet since 2010 net 7 million people have settled in the UK. It’s not the migrants fault, if legally an opportunity arises to live better we would all take it. The issue is successive governments have under supported infrastructure, not controlled migration leading to massive demand and poor supply. How do you fix it, for a period you have to increase one and lower the other.

[@Larryberry961]

She excoriated 1.5 million unemployed “under socialism” then under her economically illiterate approach it peaked at 3.3 million. But still people rave on about her “drive”, “purpose” and “achievements”.

[@leafyutube]

I must be getting old because Thatcher now looks good to me.

[@RenatusChristoph]

😂

[@jimdavis8391]

Again, most women in the 70s were hot compared with the lardy, ill mannered monsters we are sadly familiar with today.

[@leafyutube]

@@jimdavis8391 They are more obnoxious today which definitely is a turn off.

[@jimdavis8391]

@@acousticguitarcrazy6385 My mother is dead.

[@simonjones7727]

Are we sure this is Thatcher? It wasn't one of David Bowie's less well known 70s "personae" was it? Somewhere between the Thin White Duke and "Low" eras?

[@_Quint_]

Ah, so that's where von der Leyen got her hairstyle from.

[@benevans3086]

A strong leader who knew her facts, spoke articulately, stuck to her beliefs and fought for what she believed it. She could teach modern politicians a lesson or two about having a spine.

[@ottconsulting7]

Tripe - enemy of the working class and a doormat for Reagan.

[@Knappa22]

“The only things I have in my life are the things I’ve got by my own work.” Utter BS. She married a millionaire in 1951, and he paid for her training as a barrister, bankrolled her political career and put her up in accommodation in Chelsea before they were married. The idea she achieved anything solely off her own bat is laughable.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

Untrue, she put herself through university. And paid off that by working as a chemist and lived very frugality with a female flatmate. This was a few years before marriage to Dennis. Your hatred and jealous, knows no bounds.

[@Knappa22]

@@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus Since when is stating facts and calling out lies ‘hatred’? It is a matter of fact that her marriage to Denis (and reliance on his resources) bankrolled her political ambitions, career, candidature for parliament and childcare. Also her previous 2nd degree in the Law was paid for by her husband. Her first degree was funded by the state via a grant. Every reputable biography of Thatcher narrates these facts.

[@manmaje3596]

@@Knappa22She understood the value of hard work. No matter the circumstances of her marriage. She had a very good work ethic you just sound bitter that some people are more fortunate than others. You will never live a happy life that way. What’s stopping you marrying into money?

[@Knappa22]

@@manmaje3596 The thread of these replies is quite fascinating. Aspersions about ‘hatred’, ‘jealousy’, ‘bitterness’. I assume by these personal attacks that you cannot counter the facts I laid out, and that this is all you, and the other one, can resort to

[@therespectedlex9794]

What are you talking about? She set the best example anyone could for a young woman.

[@SRPA476]

She was an accomplished, self-made woman. But she leaves out the part where she married a millionaire. The boss’s son, no less.

[@SanFran51]

That's complete nonsense. Besides she wasn't interested in pettiness.

[@makhnothecossack4948]

Well she wasn't very poor, her background was just made humble due to the fact that her father was a well-off store owner, politician and a Methodist preacher.

[@19037vinny]

Would you rather she married a poor man with no prospects? She wanted prosperity for you and me . And herself. Her speeches against socialism are clear on this.

[@makhnothecossack4948]

@@19037vinny Her speeches are only a sign on her having a rather delusional picture on reality, and are nothing else than political jargon and twisting of facts to get people to support something that is not favourable to them in reality.

[@danh5637]

I don’t see why it matters she didn’t win elections because she married a millionaire. She won because she was capable and she was essentially a human Google.

[@123brownjames]

One of the very few interviews with a blonde Thatcher

[@JamesKing-el3ry]

That was the first thing I noticed before I clicked, it's not flattering. Her hairdresser must've got a good thrashing after.

[@JeanaLarson]

@@JamesKing-el3ry Apparently, she went blond for her husband. Her natural hair color was a fairly dark brown. When she was going to be prime minister, her political team told her she would have to soften the blonde or voters might not take her seriously. That's when she went to the more reddish color we became familiar with.

[@bradkohl6283]

She did bring many needed reforms I agree but there has to be balance!

[@bradkohl6283]

She was completely correct in protecting the NHS. Good for her on that one at least.

[@therespectedlex9794]

Interesting comment about immigration at the end. Sadly Britain now takes in hundreds of thousands yearly.

[@SanFran51]

You got Tony Blair to thank for that.

[@therespectedlex9794]

@SanFran51 Yeah, and I guess people were still a bit less keen on it then. They wouldn't believe what was just a couple of decades away. Maybe Thatcher knew about 'the plan' though.

[@federicop1571]

I absolutely adore her but it’s so odd to see that hair colour 😄

[@TVHouseHistorian]

My thoughts exactly 😆.

[@SunofYork]

She wasn't supposed to be a playboy bunny you know..

[@twyscape]

It’s almost as if Trump and Boris saw this back then and ordered some hair rinse.

[@SunofYork]

@@twyscape Boris and trumputin (pee pee tapes) are clowns, but they have some heavy duty Fascists in their entourage... ps trumps hobby was/is listening to Hitter videos.. I do that too, but only so I can be a more effective spoiler

[@jameswalker5158]

She looks fit.

[@TT_1221]

"This woman is headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated." - ICI Personnel Dept. rejecting her job application of the then Margaret Roberts in 1948

[@misst.e.a.187]

Perfect description of her. A sound leader listens to others. Even the queen quipped that Mrs T was more royal than herself 😂 To quote Mrs T, "The lady's not for turning" - and she wasn't.

[@TT_1221]

@@misst.e.a.187 I edited my comment to add that this quote was the assessment from a job interview she did in 1948.

[@et7972]

her assessment from job interview ICI in 1948 , is it from her autobiography ?

[@introvertboricua787]

Never heard the word "issue" pronounced "eee-cee-oo" before

[@dplummer35]

'If it were half a million we just couldn't take them'.......we have just taken in 750,000!!

[@SteveM-ly7oy]

Yes, us Brits are so stupid. The first country in history to disappear culturally because we were too nice.

[@streamsofconsciousness8651]

"I'm amazed that people will put up with 1.5 Million unemployed through socialism" said the woman who took unemployment up to 3 million through capitalism

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

Mrs Thatcher was the best Prime Minister that the U.K. ever had, besides Winston Churchill - and she showed up Labour for their hypocrisy, proving that she was far more socialist than they ever pretended to be, which is why she was hated long after her passing, right up to the present day, where many of her common sense based reforms and policies were reversed after her passing - it’s such a pity that members of her own party eventually stabbed her in the back - we will never have a leader like her ever again - and frankly, she would have handled the credit crunch, 9/11, Brexit and Covid far better than the incompetent fools currently in power

[@davidalexander2607]

And what planet were you living on in the 1980s ?? This evil cow destroyed the working class ... She targeted the most vulnerable in society(which she didn't believe in). Just like all Tories

[@drysia26]

The dreadful woman who sold off U.K. social housing and didn’t replace it!!! One of the reasons house prices are so high in the U.K. now! ☹

[@teacakess420]

Built more council homes than Blair. And I fail to understand how her selling houses onto the market increased prices.

[@louisharper3955]

​@@teacakess420 it's called less availability. Less availability = increase In price. Anyway, she's in hell now.

[@SanFran51]

It's called right to buy. After all why should the council dictate your ownership?

[@0w784g]

@@louisharper3955 Less availability wouldn't have anything to do with record population increase due to record migration for the last 20 years, would it?

[@orangebanana845]

@@louisharper3955 "less availability" The houses haven't exactly vanished, they're all still right there!

[@LastCommodore]

"how many are entitled to come" ... apparently almost every one of them.

[@NettyP-v9e]

I always supported her as she spoke plainly get the facts and heed them,wish she was still in power!!😮

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

I lived in the Republic of Ireland as a Catholic and as a teenager during the 1980’s when Mrs Thatcher was in power and I admired and respected her stance on Northern Ireland, the IRA and on the Falklands - I knew that she and our Taoiseach Charles J Haughey of the Fianna Fáil party in Dáil Éireann were great friends - I also knew that the IRA and Sinn Fein had betrayed the Irish people even back then, even though most of the coverage of events in the U.K. was via our national broadcaster RTÉ at the time and the U.K. newspapers - I only moved to Manchester U.K. in 2002 and I was horrified by what I’d seen and the fallout of the IRA bombings in Manchester, but despite my embarrassment, I did initially point out to my English friends that the IRA had also bombed targets in Dublin and elsewhere in the Republic, such as with Lord Mountbatten in Co. Sligo

[@misst.e.a.187]

​@@michaeljohndennis2231The IRA was blowing up much of London back then, too. The action, or threat of, was a regular occurrence that I recall.

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

@@misst.e.a.187 this is correct - and I very much admired and respected Mrs. Thatcher’s stance on this at the time, even as a teenager growing up in Rural Ireland - at that time too, when they were a proper broadcaster, RTÉ refused to have any interviews with Sinn Fein and we only found out later during Covid that Sinn Fein were Marxist traitors to the Irish people - also during Covid, the IRA never once attempted to defend the Irish people, using the Northern Ireland Peace Process as an excuse

[@antonio3220]

How did we come from this to the likes of Boris, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

[@mtarkes]

Too many poles

[@ottconsulting7]

Absolute straight line - hope she’s rotting in hell.

[@BloodMoonASMR]

@@mtarkesMore like Middle Easterners and Asians.

[@antonio3220]

@@mtarkes poles? They were never the ones that were an issue. I doubt they want to come to the UK anymore. Soon we'll see people leaving the UK to go to Poland the way things are.

[@darylcheshire1618]

As an Australian, I liked Boris but I don’t know what it would be like under his government. When he had Covid, someone suggested they comb his hair whilst he was under sedation.

[@johncopeland3826]

Oh she loved Wales , Northern Ireland and Scotland ...didn't she ?

[@splodge57]

She would have given them independence.👍

[@GuyCybershy]

She died alone in a hotel room, abandoned by her family. "There's no such thing as society" indeed.

[@stevouk]

The "hotel room" was a suite at the Ritz, at the behest of the Barclay brothers who owned it.

[@Muzzy68]

Abandoned? Really? Why do you say that? Is every person who dies alone abandoned?

[@stephenhardy312]

Poetic justice!

[@jakemiller9547]

Feels a bit weird that I think this the first time I’ve seen Slim Shady whipped cream Thatcher? How long was she this blonde?

[@highdefboxing8056]

She was always this blonde all the way through her career, until just before the election in 1979, when the image makers told her she was "too blonde to be taken seriously."

[@grahamcmusic]

I failed to see how great Margaret Thatcher was when she was in power The left have always been good at throwing out a number of slogans which are only emotional and not founded in fact. I have to admit It took a while for me to realise that I was falling for that and started to listen to real experts dealing with facts and history like for example Milton Friedman on economics.

[@McIntyreBible]

1:04, M.Thatcher knew her politics; she was a born politician!

[@daveoliver5838]

Didn’t she sign the Maastricht treaty which paved the way for EU effectively in control of UK ?

[@purple467]

​@@daveoliver5838No, that was PM John Major

[@daveoliver5838]

@@purple467 When Major became PM Mrs Thatcher said that she was the “back seat driver”, implying she was still in control!

[@Commentator-tb8ku]

Brilliant leader and stunning woman.

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

Wonder how much hairspray was used in the making of that hairstyle!

[@Nick_80599]

I remember my gran used to use Bristows hair spray and it used to make her smell like an alcoholic

[@moodobusiness]

Half a million now a year Mrs T

[@paulashford4155]

In the seventies the school milk was great in mini glass bottles. It was mostly cold. Admittedly, heading toward June it would probably be warm...most of the time it was nice and cold. But it did have to be drank early, as it was not refrigerated

[@celestialteapot309]

The economics of the madhouse

[@pontifixmax]

She's more orange than Trump.

[@daveoliver5838]

Total fake, had fanatic Labour guy Bernard Ingham with thick Yorkshire accent as her spokesman!

[@alfching2499]

The biggest scourge of the country 1979 was the worst year for all of us,thanks to millions of housewives

[@jamesnicholson2503]

She robbed the Hoover pension pot,the Hoover plant in Merthyr Tydfil South Wales 90 million in the pot,the cow took 40 million left the works with 50 million,my late dad was one at Hoover,this cow robbed him of is pension..Fked up the coal,steel making,but Considering she was hated,how the hell was she there for 11 and a half years?????

[@caferacer7667]

Who adopted that hair style first, Trump or Thatcher? Now for Iron Man Trump to save the world.

[@illomens2766]

Thatcher's probably boiling in the same cauldron of molten lead as Cheney and Kissinger

[@markojwang4809]

Watching too much BBC, Channel 4 etc Do your own research

[@albertcheeni]

Just compare Thatcher and.............and............Yeah Kamala Harris😅

[@misst.e.a.187]

Yes, she did make that claim. How unwise

[@alcazarugerio]

She was very old at this year

[@graemeyetts3465]

A " Standby credit"😂😂😂

[@Arriz]

How Marlyn Monroe would have looked like in her 50s..

[@tonyd3698]

If she wasn't so hated, she would seem almost pleasant.

[@davidweatherstone956]

Couldn’t stand her . However , she always gave a straight answer !

[@misst.e.a.187]

Imagine bumbling Boris instead?

[@grahamandrew907]

She gave the working class the opportunity to live with the luxury of the upper classes, it didn't quite work out .

[@trueman7226]

Immigration is now thousand times worse and more now. Then Mrs thatcher spoke in 1976 .i remember this interview of Mrs thatcher because I was going to school at that time.

[@williamc6564]

She was hated so much because people could not conceptualise her analysis of a working economy. There are many governments that spend their way out of an injured economy instead of investing it where it really is needed. It not always needed in private enterprise because most private enterprises that are successful have the resources to be successful, however the reality is that government will bail out bad enterprises sooner than assist and help good enterprises

[@lkrnpk]

It outlines Milk-snatcherism 😂😂

[@MaschineMind]

All of the warning signs were there

[@B2Unit]

weird how it's in 1976 and she looks like Station To Station era Bowie...

[@kurt479]

So every unemployed person is because of socialism? Such bollocks 😂

[@splinterbyrd]

She sure had bollocks

[@DMAN-ey1nb]

There’s no other politician in any party today that matches her intellect and communication. Same can be said for journalists.

[@jimdavis8391]

Not today, current politicians of all hues are self serving minnows compared to Thatcher and many of her cabinet, as well as those in Labour and the SDP of the 1970s.

[@christopherchurcher7319]

Interesting watching this - seems to suggest she broke all of these promises on unemployment.

[@michaelbenton2518]

She would freak out today with 5 million on the dole ,we have a society of entitled.

[@SanFran51]

That was never her ideal.

[@carlosdepaulo8580]

The legacy of thatcherism (by the end of the 80s): • unemployement increased dramatically • homeless were everywhere, many of them with mental illness • cuts were made in public services, but payments to royalty and aristocracy increased • the falklands war was absolutely avoidable • police beated population during manifs time after time • all the minorities were kept in the closet • public schools and hospitals were out of basic resources • "sharp elbows, sharp knees" broke social cohesion • opportunities for the disabled decreased or blocked • negligible economic growth

[@SanFran51]

Unemployment began falling by 1987. Inflation decreased rapidly within the first four years. The economy was booming for the first time since WW2 by the early nineties. People kept far more in their earnings and no longer taxed heavily away by Labour. Argentina invaded the Falklands which the Falklands were and still is a British Territory. You really are a deluded troll.

[@rogermoore-gd9do]

Greatest Prime Minister we have ever had only benefit scrounging scum would say a bad word against her. Most of these listed she inherited from Labour. She saved the UK her legacy was so good the next Labour party kept her policies.

[@culttelevision]

That Cilla black Blind Date Barnet is 8 years early here

[@andrewoliver8930]

The things I've got in life are from my own mother's dodgy arms deal Mark Thatcher...

[@BenjaminNavillus]

Now I know why she was originally known as the ‘Blonde Bombshell’ when all I had seen was a ginger look.

[@thomasspicer4130]

When all our presents fractured society began with the importation of millions from the colonies I just don’t know why they didn’t listen to the people who never once voted for any kind of immigration.😢

[@projectprobe4460]

Now!, compare this ladies demeanour to that of Angela 😂😂😂😂, not even comparable 😂😂😂

[@FindAReason-mi7go]

I always thought that she was Tim Brooke Taylor in drag.

[@grahamblack1961]

Except she was one of the baddies

[@therespectedlex9794]

Didn't know they wore denim jackets.

[@stephenpalos3240]

Mending the shoes, not buying new shoes...

[@Kabkabmbujimayi]

Skully killed her when she played her in The Crown