Margaret Thatcher's Quick Wit When Asked About Her Weaknesses | Celebs Up Close

[@Mister-Smith-6079]

Oh my GOD! She did NOT avoid ANY of the questions. And she also ADMITTED she had weaknesses! She came across as human instead of as a Robot (the way politicians do nowadays). And she actually answered with "yes" or "no" - instead of diverting to another subject. God we are in a mess now!!!

[@Fatima502]

And no ums or errs

[@softboynerd]

Im not sure whether that interview came before or after she became Prime Minister, however I assume she revealed her weaknesses after office. Weaknesses can be exploited by political rivals. Unless she had the guts to say it before or during office, so... Iron Lady, we miss you.

[@Bellasie1]

People back then had a good education, and unlike today, enough humanity and class to let their humility show, including leaders. The exact opposite of now as ignorance, vulgarity and arrogance prevail.

[@VictorMaxol]

The robots came to Ireland I know not when but revealed themselves in 2020. They are interchangeable and each rules us with the same monotony.

[@nicolemurphy2629]

Aww the days of politicians talking sensibly and answering a Question.

[@lmk2049]

When UK had pride. Not s single recent politician compares.

[@softboynerd]

And self-decency by protecting Falkland Islands without a slight of shame thrown by the "international institutions". Well played back then ;)

[@LdevArt]

you loved jimmy saville being protected by her didnt you..

[@janheard3826]

David Cameron was a good prime minister and did the best he could.

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

@@LdevArt Jimmy Saville was protected by the BBC and Keir Starmer. Thatcher would have broken his kneecaps (actually, probably a bit higher) while in the next gesture pouring a cup of tea.

[@richardcooke7621]

Cannot imagine any prime minister or indeed politician in general, talking so eloquently today, or being allowed to by the interviewer! Love her or hate her, she was a great lady

[@EdelweisSusie]

Well said!

[@nickyverra2175]

I love her, she was very clear on her objectives and what she wanted to achieve, that will always divide opinion but 100 per cent better than being wishywashy or lacking in opinion.

[@bestdisco1979]

If only we had the lady now.

[@thanksamill]

I read her memoirs & came to the conclusion that for all her failings & seeming disregard for the effects of her policies on ordinary people etc, she had the best of intentions.

[@Budgies00001]

@@nickyverra2175you serious ? Google what she did to the Irish

[@Danceup-dh6kn]

Looking back at Thatcher, in comparison with the current mob, you realise how good she really was.

[@version736ha2]

So spot on. She was honest. And dedicated. And many of those that hate and deride her, then and now, are dull losers.

[@imankhandaker6103]

No - you realize how bad the current lot are.

[@CzechMirco]

Actually we in Central Europe always admired her (even some of our more sane lefties). Its the British media cabal that creates the false narrative that she was and is universally despised. Those uneducated celeb charlatans don't get, that universally united opinion is NOT natural and thus highly suspicious.

[@Transformer-x6t]

Charisma is everything. She EXUDED Charisma

[@sabejreid2072]

She did - why? She was intelligent and had the facts at her fingertips ALWAYS. Hitch said he flirted with her - she was a turn on.

[@shaz2761]

Very few women have CHARISMA. But Thatcher was one of the few that had it in droves.

[@morgansifer]

She did indeed, contrary to popular opinion, have a good sense of humour. Very quick witted and she was simply charming in this interview.

[@danielkimberley9516]

Yes. Even though her policies were foul she was an extraordinary women

[@AGNETHAFALTSK0G]

Her sister Dame Chlorine was also a female woman in politics during the 1970s in east Sussex.

[@danielkimberley9516]

@@AGNETHAFALTSK0G who is dame chlorine? Don’t see her online

[@shivsnorman]

​@@danielkimberley9516her one and only sister was called Muriel (Roberts).

[@Celisar1]

Are you kidding? People don’t know she was extremely witty? There are entire books filled with nothing but her witty, charming and sharp minded quotes.

[@KeithRowley418]

Pure class - a truly great leader. RIP ma’m.

[@LdevArt]

jimmy saville round at hers every xmas for 8 years, thats your 'pure class'

[@KeithRowley418]

@ your comment is beneath contempt.

[@susanford2388]

@@LdevArt The comment is about Thatcher, your mind is in the gutter.

[@simplelifelost]

Classy, funny, charismatic and attractive.

[@soaruk3697]

@@simplelifelost Yes Michael Aspel was - but the complete inhuman being next to him wasn't. Pure evil.

[@NannyFlo]

Like or loathe her, Margaret Thatcher was an amazing woman.

[@lioraoppenheimer8965]

and she could laugh at herself, something STALIN STARMER can't do!!

[@patricksachs3655]

Most people liked her.

[@Roz-y2d]

@@patricksachs3655I wouldn’t go that far but they did respect her, albeit grudgingly. Also, she didn’t have any women in her cabinet which meant there was much less drama. Such a shame she ended her premiership because of the poll tax, she definitely got too big for her boots!😢

[@patricksachs3655]

@Roz-y2d Actually, I would go that far. There was no way she could have won three general elections with overwhelming victories otherwise .

[@Roz-y2d]

@@patricksachs3655 Okey doke.👍🏻

[@AJGeeTV]

What a remarkable interview. As a uni graduate in 1982 England, it was commonplace to hate the Iron Lady. Now, 42 years later, I have great respect for her.

[@vanessap7209]

Same here! I think we were indoctrinated to hate her! Now that I’m older and a wee bit wiser, she was a BEAST💪 She made a difference to the nation! I’m sorry I was used to Spitting Image always taking the mickey of her😂Those shows were great though😅 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@fujifrontier]

@@vanessap7209JEFFFFF-rehh, this is a FRENCH one

[@lmoconno7516]

Time makes us smarter 😊

[@Celisar1]

It is so sad that she didn’t get the acknowledgment and admiration she really deserved. This “hate” is so childish and nonsensical.

[@MorningInAmerica_Nov_5_2024]

Young people rarely have much wisdom. It's the human condition. I feel like if citizens couldn't vote until they had lived 15 years or so as an adult functioning in the *real world,* our politics/society would not be in the mess they're in. I look back at some of my voting decisions and wonder, "What was I thinking?" 😱

[@MrLeighman]

Compared to Politicians these days - she was an angel.

[@Eva-Maria7o]

What. 😮

[@sallywilton2236]

Agree

[@davehue9517]

An icon in world history... well done 👍

[@chrism1102]

It's funny. She said something way back then that's stuck with me my entire life. "The best feeling you have at the end of the day is when you've accomplished something. When you lay on the beach all day you don't have that feeling, do you?" It's so true and I think about it all the time.

[@softboynerd]

"We've worked" I remember these words from the Crown ;)

[@Julia-fo4tk]

I never lie on the beach all day.

[@danielvanr.8681]

Pretty sure she said _lie,_ not _lay._ 😂

[@chrism1102]

@danielvanr.8681 lol. It was almost 40.years ago but yeah. I think that's safe to say.

[@OliviaHacking-kf7px]

chrism 102 - Today people lie on the floor Infront of screens and do NOTHING.

[@EdelweisSusie]

I’m not remotely into politics, but Mrs Thatcher had me mesmerised when I was growing up with how beautifully she spoke, how phenomenally intelligent she was and how she could shut down with one sentence any politician who crossed her. She was like a battleship that took no prisoners and is still my favourite politician to this day - we’ll never see the likes of her again. RIP.

[@vanessap7209]

Hear! Hear!!👏👏👏

[@edgaraquino2324]

Agreed...or the Queen...😢

[@dhoraray1310]

At last some homage to this Lady. Margaret Thatcher.

[@elainekelleher6508]

She embodied true British values and decency - lover her!❤

[@robertp.wainman4094]

I agree!

[@gerardmackay8909]

She embodied selfishness, cruelty and greed if they are ‘true’ British values then those values stink

[@soaruk3697]

She destroyed them.

[@ROCKINGMAN]

Despite the negative comments about Lady Thatcher, I thought she was a wonder to listen to. Always thorough, precise, ordered. She always answered questions and was someone to be admired. A real beautiful lady.

[@newafricanforum]

For some strange reason I like listening to the 'damme de fer'. She looks like the mother or auntie i would love to have. 😂😂

[@ABC_DEF]

Never seen this one before. My God she was good. Funny and good company too.

[@streamsofconsciousness8651]

What a rare opportunity to see her at her unusually funny, spontaneous best

[@margoneethling2149]

What a remarkable woman. Great leader and politician.

[@melvyncox3361]

What a great interview.Margaret Thatcher was eloquent, attractive and good company,with a great sense of humour. Cannot imagine such an interview like this happening with today's interviwers and politicians!

[@ChrisSmith-ku9ul]

She will be remembered long after all who followed her have been forgotten.

[@Hermeneuticar]

Remembered as a person who ruined middle class and British industry.

[@re7416]

​@@HermeneuticarRuined everything. Full stop.

[@charlesachurch7265]

But not until!

[@matsudaseiko]

oh yeah, just ask Carol Thatcher her long neglected suffered daughter and u'll understand why carol took and sold off all of maggie's suits and handbags and stuffs so THERE WILL NOT BE A MEMORIAL MUSEUM made possible. yes maggie thatcher was THAT A HORRIBLE PERSON !

[@felixthecat3n2]

​@@matsudaseiko Grow up

[@richardmark561]

When leadership was exactly that !!!!

[@TheZ1A900]

Best PM ever !

[@KarenlisaHetherington]

Along with Churchill.

[@wh5254]

What an amazing person she was!

[@sparehead8911]

None of the current crop of politicians can hold a candle to her..

[@JayArgonauts]

Very true... I wouldn’t have thought standards would have slipped so much

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

King Nigel the closest

[@imankhandaker6103]

....health & safety.

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

@@imankhandaker6103 there is nothing healthy for 🇬🇧 or for its safety with two tier Kier as prime minister

[@christhairu2226]

I can say sunak can.match her

[@greatmusicfan57]

I am a Yank, I have loved this lady since the Reagan days. Liked them both. RIP 🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@lucylocket420]

Weren't they a fabulous team x

[@godzooke]

Class.

[@markgendala5689]

One in a century!

[@brianjoyce9907]

She was PM when I was a kid. I thought she was like the Queen back then. I like listening to her.

[@lapislazuli7876]

She was very much like the Queen . Perhaps that's why the Queen clashed with her.

[@JayArgonauts]

How standards have slipped now.

[@sabejreid2072]

Well we still have DJT and Farage

[@garyproffitt5941]

What a champion the iron lady!

[@sabejreid2072]

Truly, the Working Class who have elevated via hard work and education - are the best. They can't be BS and they are very quick witted. Same for DJT.

[@lingolarker9318]

This is a wonderful snippet. Somehow passed me by.

[@ShelleyBentley-j7v]

Never appreciated this wonderful woman at the time 😢 But God how i wish she was in office niw 😊

[@julieatkin3188]

So true a kid in a Labour House, you can imagine the brain washing , but now im older I wish she was back

[@carlmitchell9958]

She had her faults…..but god I wish she was our leader now.

[@jackiewright4438]

Totally agree!

[@sallywilton2236]

And she would have sorted out Putin years ago.

[@gaycha6589]

Magnificent lady and the last good world respected leader that the UK had.

[@imankhandaker6103]

How much of the world - outside the US - have you tested that on?

[@BennyTheBall8899]

Now we have Lisa Nandy and David Lammy 😂😂😂

[@liamb8644]

And Angela Raynuh

[@moiome]

And Lizzy Truss ;)

[@liamb8644]

@@moiome not in government last time I checked

[@zombiezool]

i went to london on a middle school trip in 1989 and i was proud to visit london when margaret thatcher was in power, i never felt so british in my entire life.

[@darkstatehk]

That part where she said she was always on the job - her face and laughter…. Hilarious 😂

[@jcfgh]

A marvellous lady

[@redrose1402]

Politicians these days don’t come anywhere near her. She was wonderful ❤

[@buster3577]

She’d have the small boats crisis stopped in 24 hours.

[@sabejreid2072]

Less!

[@amsbestunderstanding1646]

Loved & admired her so much, from America.

[@gregmcfarnon1140]

Cameron, Johnson, Sunak and Starmer have made us realise that Thatcher wasn't nearly as bad as we thought at the time.

[@foreverred105]

You are forgetting Brown and May.

[@sallywilton2236]

So polished in appearance and her speech. Incredible.

[@MLopez-fu8fd]

What a Great Great Lady!!! Remarkable in her Candor & Grace, NO one has been her equal then or Since!!!

[@tommoncrieff1154]

I remember this when it went out. It was such a welcome change to the normal interviews, we learnt so much more about her. It had become a sport amongst interviewers to try to get the better of Mrs Thatcher who always knew her brief and as a conviction politician gave no ground and took no prisoners. I felt at the time, like many, many others, we were witnessing a once in a century remarkable woman who would stand out in history like Queen Elizabeth I, and she does. Many wish we had leaders like we used to, but the truth is we didn’t really have anyone else really great other than Churchill, and he was a war leader, no one remembers what he did in the 1950s. We just seem to get mediocre people one after the other who mostly get overwhelmed and make a mess of everything or a lot of it.

[@ld8619]

Not that I liked her or what she did. But you've got to hand it to her she was honest even brutal but honest she said what she meant something today's politions just can't do.

[@GroovyPancakes]

That's what I admire about her. As you said, regardless of wether someone likes or hates her or agrees or disagrees with her, she was always true to herself and what she was going to do. In basic terms...you knew where you stood with her.

[@Celisar1]

It is sad that so many people feel the need to apologetically write first“love her or loath her” or “whatever you think about her” before writing their positive opinion or giving a compliment. Let’s simply be honest: this lady was AWESOME in so many regards. She deserves high praise and we could only wish politicians today to be more like her!

[@jeanalarson3108]

AMEN!

[@marylyles-adair9539]

I understand. When I worked, I loved doing my own housework! It was relaxing and good exercise!

[@popcult]

What a genuinely amazing person.

[@guywilloughby3383]

If only we had her now!!

[@evewilkinson9653]

What an amazing lady she was. We sure need her now. God rest her.

[@tubularbill]

At the height of her powers after a landslide victory in 1983. God bless Maggie!

[@nelsonwhaley6348]

A true Statesman and Leader..replaced by successive imbeciles and criminal actions.

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

Mrs Thatcher was a great friend of our Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey - she never really got on well with Jack Lynch of Fianna Fáil nor with Garret Fitzgerald of Fine Gael - I was only a teenager growing up in Rural Republic of Ireland when she was in office and I hugely respected her leadership, especially regarding her approach to the IRA and Sinn Fein and her approach to the Falklands - many years later when I first moved to Manchester 23 years ago, I was quite shocked by how much people really hated her, even though she was the best British Prime Minister that the U.K. has ever had - she was a wonderful woman and is still sadly missed 🇮🇪☘️🇬🇧😍

[@donquixote3927]

They hate some manufactured caricature of her, invented by the left, and unfortunately, now supported by the corporate right. (Fellow Manc, 3rd generation from County Laois)

[@nickyverra2175]

One of my two all time favourites along with William Pitt The Younger

[@Treviscoe]

"Mrs Thatcher was a great friend of our Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey." Really? I didn't know that.

[@ivandinsmore6217]

I never knew that. I always thought she hated Haughey and liked Fitzgerald.

[@sabejreid2072]

TRUTH

[@Tenortalker]

Policies she championed were controversial and remain so with hindsight. However she was a highly intelligent and articulate person with a witty sense of humour. She was a politician by vocation rather than the career politicians we see so much of today. Tough enough and ambitious enough to make her way in parliament she was maybe not as thick - skinned as the press made out. She was brought down as PM and party leader by a group who were nowhere near her equal as politicians. No doubt jealousy and ambition was mingled with their frustration. I get the impression that after years of office running on very little sleep she stopped listening to her advisers ? I think it is important to listen if you are going to lead. This interview with Michael Aspel was clever PR , but it did also reveal much about her I think.

[@imankhandaker6103]

So poor leader - but good date?

[@sabejreid2072]

Apparently her Ministers lived in fear of her unbelievable memory - and her standards. She was formidable.

[@imankhandaker6103]

@sabejreid2072 Memory? That is not something her supervisors remember - whilst she was researching the texture of ice cream.

[@mary-lp5xt]

A great woman , no way would she have allowed criminals come to Britain in there thousands, she would have had battleships at every port Very much missed. .

[@tantobieroo]

Wow she’s gorgeous- so engaging

[@alanhill4334]

She's of such a higher standard than the current bunch.

[@howardsportugal]

Without making any point about MT's politics, it is undeniable that she is engaging and witty & does not need notes...hard to think of many of the current crop that tick those boxes.

[@Garrison2024]

Her humor is delightful.

[@Rythsi300]

A time when Britain was still Great. You don’t what you have until it’s gone.

[@phoenixrose1192]

It’s still a great country, despite its issues. And every country has them these days, so we’re hardly unique in this matter.

[@imankhandaker6103]

Britain stopped being Great long before the end of the Second World War. The fact that you cannot point out the moment - shows how foreign that concept has become.

[@phoenixrose1192]

@@imankhandaker6103 Greatness is measured by our culture, land, and history, not “power”. Britain is still a great country, is the US a “greater” country than Italy simply because the Roman Empire doesn’t exist anymore? That would be an emphatic *no* .

[@imankhandaker6103]

@phoenixrose1192 As long as "Greatness" has to be in quotation marks - it can be anything you want. Rome was great - it no longer exists. Italian Mercantile states were great in the Renaissance - they no longer exist. The British Empire was great - it no longer exists. Britain's greatness dissolved with it. It now vies with Roman ruins, as a tourist attraction.

[@phoenixrose1192]

@ That’s my point…the US isn’t actually great like Britain and Italy are as countries today, hence the quotation marks. Despite the fact that those empires no longer exist, the nations remain-along with their greatness.

[@JeepGirl941]

I miss her and Reagan SO MUCH! ❤❤

[@bpaiva299]

And Pope John Paul II. What a trio!

[@marcmitchel25]

Thank God I lived in those times. These wrinkles were worth the price.

[@davidviner4932]

It's between Margaret and Winston as to whom was the best we ever had.....

[@BoxOfficePoison]

Passport renewal within an hour? How times have changed!

[@gaycha6589]

Not if you are PM😂

[@MO-cf8tl]

She was prime minister when I was a kid it all went over my head. Watching her now I see a beautiful lady, full of wit and charisma who talks from the heart. I like her 👍

[@eddiek6660]

Just imagine trying to get a new passport in less than 90 minutes today???? Oh when times were simpler.

[@MarkL-we8uk]

Well, being a cabinet minister / Prime minister would have helped...

[@visionlandmusic]

She was a great woman because she was a true feminine woman, not a wannabe man -feminist!

[@k8nairne]

Brilliant interview - thank you for sharing. Is there any more of it available?

[@RandomThoughts77777]

Surprised how likeable and how charming she is. Not so popular for us Irish but seems like an intelligent woman of great substance…

[@annehudson3210]

She was the best and totally loyal to her country, we don't get that these days.Also very nice to watch.

[@IsabelleSt.Pierre-q2n]

We sure could use her leadership today. What an articulate woman she was. I miss her immensely.

[@floriandanzinger6027]

I know that Baroness Margaret Thatcher was the best prime minister after WWII and that she was quite witty but I didn't know that she was a beacon of British humour and charm.

[@reycfd7753]

One of the greatest women leaders the world ever had. I'm Filipino but I salute her.

[@mb3503-o4e]

She was wonderful

[@El--Grimaldi]

This was a masterstroke of PR at the time .

[@kaelaleedaley]

A great lady with an excellent sense of humour - our modern politicians really lack this humility x

[@tonycypriot9401]

She was an intelligent and respectful lady, but also had a sense of humour that isn't acknowledged.

[@andrewwoods2142]

A truly wonderful lady. RIP Lady Thatcher.

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

My grandfather, a magistrate, knew Margaret's husband Dennis socially, and he said that she had a great sense of humour, which is evidenced here. I've read her biography, did you know she actually helped a Jewish girl evade the Nazis in the war, her family took in this girl and kept it quiet to protect her. She also loved her teddy bears and talked to them (I do not do this with toy cats, at all ah ahem 😂). Not just because of my grandfather, but I always had a soft spot for Thatcher, a witty, sharp and emphatic lady who knocks the spots off any UK leader since, I mean Kier Starmer next to her 😂😂 Nb- Why does Michael Aspels hair line look weird, like so utterly immaculate and thick?!

[@bartbuiring98]

Really nice interview

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

I can’t say that I agree with everything Margaret Thatcher said and did, and she wasn’t without her faults. But one thing that has to be said is that, whether she was right or wrong, she was a STRONG leader. And I do t think we’ve had anyone as strong since. It’s something we really need now.

[@imankhandaker6103]

If only we had our own Putin?

[@andrewknight8778]

Wonderful human!

[@imankhandaker6103]

@@andrewknight8778 How old are you?

[@daviddelaney6757]

No negative comments here - she was great and how the Country needs someone like her in charge today...

[@imankhandaker6103]

Obviously your eyes are closed.

[@lovedaybebe5881]

Before spin really took a stranglehold over our politics! Refreshingly honest and genuine. People really warm to that !

[@hharrison-parker1606]

Like or loath, she was of her generation, a generation never to walk these shores again.

[@pereriksson2211]

What a great leader and what a great woman!

[@jameshughes7947]

Michael's hair was a thing of beauty.

[@ronmccullock1407]

Lol I agree

[@localreviewking134]

He gave it warm milk and biscuits at night

[@kaybee2930]

A wonderful woman

[@melissa564]

I miss her - ❤

[@esther_cl]

Amazing woman, always admired her. RIP

[@suegha]

You only have to watch this to fully despair at what politics has become today! On both sides of the Atlantic. :(:(:(

[@tonyfromchester1961]

A very human superstar politician.

[@vordman]

Ooh, that was cutting at 7'55. But as usual she was spot on. The Welsh Windbag never stood a chance against our Maggie.

[@sabejreid2072]

We still LOVE her!

[@someoneelse.2252]

She served the UK well.

[@OrchidForce]

Always admire her, such a proper lady and in the eyes of many nations, a capable leader.

[@MegaALEXLOUIS]

Loved in Liverpool and South Yorkshire. Not just loved, adored. It takes a special kind of woman to touch so many people like that.

[@kiimmaritz2827]

Greatest prime minister the world ever had..not just uk

[@imankhandaker6103]

Compared to Angela Merkel? Integrity exists - even if no British leader has ever had a passing acquaintance with its first cousin.

[@respond1984]

Delightful, brilliant woman.

[@stephengoddard5093]

She was ahead of her time.!