Election Debate '87: Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock and David Steel Face the Public (1987)

Election Debate '87: Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock and David Steel Face the Public (1987) - PART 1

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In the days leading up to the 1987 general election, party leaders Margaret Thatcher (Conservatives), Neil Kinnock (Labour), and David Steel (Liberal-SDP Alliance) took turns to face a live studio audience and answer questions put to them by residents of three key battleground constituencies: Dudley West, Cheltenham, and Calder Valley. The three programmes together give a fascinating insight into the main issues in that year's election as well as the personalities of three of the country's most influential political figures.
The first programme, broadcast live on Friday 5 June 1987, saw Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock fielding questions on a range of topics including the north-south divide, Labour's relationship with trade unions, Labour's policy on nuclear disarmament and other questions of Cold War defence, and whether or not Mr Kinnock would be willing to enter into a coalition with the Liberal-SDP Alliance in order to unseat the Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher.
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@DFandV 3 ай бұрын

Even this debate is more interesting than yesterday's two leaders debate.

@MrAJR76 21 күн бұрын

Only because, like most tiresome nostalgists, you live in the past.

@Londonechoes 3 ай бұрын

What a throwback!

@ITNArchive 3 ай бұрын

How do you think Neil Kinnock and Margaret Thatcher compare with Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak?

@veggie42 3 ай бұрын

Yes I was looking at this Abbott was elected. Smith is starmer..kinnock more sunak when he got angry

@plerpplerp5599 3 ай бұрын

Thatcher was a high handed, mean-spirited, and belligerent individual who peddled an demented political and economical ideology of cutting taxes for the rich, cutting government assistance for the poor, and cutting regulations for the banks and corporate businesses, in the misguided and obsessed belief that it would lead to economic growth. Instead, it has caused high public debt, extreme poverty, and wage inequality, which the UK is still struggling with today.

@waltermodel2521 2 ай бұрын

Yeah. but Blair didn't reverse this, and opened up mass immigration on top of this. Now Britain is a poor country where all money is sucked up by London

@paulmcgrath3248 Ай бұрын

Inward looking strange days

@benday1218 3 ай бұрын

the first question is essentially about 'levelling up' - plus ca change....

@RussellGi 3 ай бұрын

The neoliberalism Thatcher followed centralised investment and does to this day. Kinnock eludes to this by mentioning the depression that would be caused removing this. The level of discourse is well above what we see in modern politics. Although one could argue Kinnock was unsuccessful, cos his pitch is simply too honest & complex for the average voter to comprehend!

@hakim2546 3 ай бұрын

Everything just looks way classier back then

@zeddeka 3 ай бұрын

You clearly didn't live through that era

@version736ha2 3 ай бұрын

Kinnock answers the first question very well.

@jackmatthew1880 Ай бұрын

03:02 Is that Lynne Jones, later on MP for Selly Oak?

@JimmyTimmy-wh8dz 3 ай бұрын

Back when I was young and thought voting made a difference.

@johnwalters4792 2 ай бұрын

Believe it or not it does. Just look at Brexit.

@neilbriscombe 3 ай бұрын

Irrespective of policy, these three episodes (along with the two featuring David Steel and Margaret Thatcher) say a lot about the current quality of discourse, our politicians, and perhaps most concerningly, our mutual tolerance and respect as a society. Again, policy aside, my favorite was David's. His and the audience's conduct was genuinely about seeking mutual understanding (not agreement). All three should be manditory training for all MPs before TV debate. It is very sad to see what the sphere of politics has become; one only has to read some of the comments here to see the distinction in how the audience chose to engage and what we have today.

@Qatari2007 3 ай бұрын

Sorry, WHERE is Ms Thatcher?

@liamb8644 3 ай бұрын

Welsh Windbag

@veggie42 3 ай бұрын

Yep we see the irony of Red Ed and wind and his son instead is on borders...max fact

@JoshuaMSP1995 3 ай бұрын

@@eightiesmusic1984 Yes, but it's a metric that only goes up to 16.

@PBI45 3 ай бұрын

they called Nye Bevan that too....he created the NHS.

@Шрайбикус-й4н 3 ай бұрын

Workers of the world, unite!

@veggie42 3 ай бұрын

I'm thinking of this and starmer now. Omg Cheltenham amd LD and Aldx Chalk. Calder Valley went Tory who'd have thought that Blue Collar... Blue Labour is Starmers dad's bkue collar Rayner is pink collar and white collar when she went into office work for union. Several are white collared. White Labour.