Margaret Thatcher Vs Robin Day 1984

[@xbrando7]

I love watching her in interviews, because I've never seen a politician answer questions so straightly and confidently.

[@aishdesai]

Queen Magga 😄♥️

[@moodobusiness]

Nigel too

[@notreyf]

Excellent interview, thanks for posting.

[@alievans7988]

She was such a boss 💖 i wish more people would stand up for what they believe in these day x

[@bryanhead2670]

"acting as a postman" at 43:47,,,,The great Sir robin looking for his golden scoop but all he got was a golden put down!!! I remember watching this in 1984 12/13 years old!

[@edwardjones4870]

“I can cope with nine of them so they ought to be able to stand one of me.” Great line!

[@jimmyg.]

How relevant this talk is today.

[@jasevox70]

Margaret was always in charge of the miners strike. No compromise no fudging . Crushed them completely.

[@briandelaney9710]

jase vox Yes and she lies here that it was dispute between “miners and miners “. She used the police in an inappropriate manner as an instrument of government policy. She will always be infamous for this

[@growinsane9123]

@@briandelaney9710 It was a dispute between miners and miners, I remember it very clearly and lived amongst it. If you weren't with the unions you were against them and nothing in modern left wing ideologies persuades me that their values have changed. You never heard the unions back then agitating to improve the pay conditions for non-union members, point in case!

[@acecase1383]

Scargill couldnt lace her boots. She knew it and the miners knew it also.

[@briandelaney9710]

Ace Case she used as an instrument of government policy no matter what she tries to claim her. She helped destroy mining communities for which she will always be infamous in the North of England and Scotland

[@stevebaker6149]

​​@@briandelaney9710They didn't need her. They managed that by themselves.

[@Justin-iz8ku]

"I shall be a very fit 62. You might be a little bit nearer that than I am but you feel alright?"

[@purple467]

Fantastic!!

[@muzeezhodillo8613]

Whether she was good or bad she knew what she was talking about and didn't stumble with her answers.

[@dominiclondesborough3929]

Great interview. Please post the famous Brian Walden interview with Nigel Lawson after Lawson resigned in 1989.

[@mousehitscat]

she wanted a prosperous coal industry? And where is that prosperous coal industry now?

[@wh5254]

mousehitscat It was losing money...if there isn't money to be made then it must cease to be.

[@voice.of.reason]

They were closed down by the 13 years of labour government

[@mrinman7407]

Yes, "If...." Rememer Kipling.

[@robmatthews4202]

labour governments shut more pits than margaret thatcher. fact.

[@jamesxenophon9505]

@@wh5254 This is the attitude that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. What about factors other than money, such as the wellbeing of towns that ended up with generations of unemployment and social problems? And what about energy security? If we look at the world today, where potentially hostile countries like Russia, China and Middle Eastern countries control so much energy, and where the US considers it a key national security goal to be energy independent, does it really make sense to destroy 1,000 years of energy beneath our feet?

[@johnking5174]

44:25 - Gotcha! Maggie struck Robin there a little bit and I think he enjoyed it as well.

[@peterglen4811]

I love the way she pronounces "coal" and "area" - very posh!

[@vivienhumphreys8920]

Margaret Thatcher was anything but "posh" in fact heavily accented. In her attempt to succeed she took elocution lessons.

[@OGA_999]

@@vivienhumphreys8920 Successful in all she did including the alleged 'elocution lessons'? RIP Maggie

[@agnitra]

this was the best intro!

[@christinacrimari3543]

Thankyou, thankyou. You merged one of my favourite ever adverts from the 80's with Thatcher. What's not to like?

[@alievans7988]

That intro 😍😂😂😂

[@mango2005]

I sometimes wonder, in the present political climate, how this strike would have played out today. Would the Climate issue have been a factor if it happened now given this was coal.

[@peterglen4811]

you can always see when she is lying! not that she always lies.........

[@thatcheritescot]

at which point do u think she is telling lies exactly?

[@peterglen4811]

***** when she averts her eyes and fails to provide the steely stare of truth

[@thatcheritescot]

Peter Glen at what time in the vid exactly? im betting she gives a more exact answer than the one u just gave me.

[@critic188]

***** Mrs Thatcher claims she wasn't involved in the strike, the papers released 30 years later prove that she was.

[@acecase5844]

thatcheritescot great vids

[@tonyclifton265]

best PM ever

[@johnarmstrong3782]

I want her back.

[@stevebbuk]

Such a pity in later years she went down the road of hormone replacement therapy and that dental work, both of which impaired her appearance.

[@edwardtoner]

Hahaha. Golden intro

[@kmully8873]

Just imagine if the UK Govt had pushed forward in the late 80's with renewable energy industries instead of the obvious "biting ones own ass" politics, how blunt would Putin's blackmail be now?

[@bereal6590]

Worse still she knew back then! It's very interesting now knowing what I know, I know I was right to hate the witch

[@dondocumentariestv7992]

Margaret Thatcher the Real Queen off England..

[@Derrako]

"The superb way they handled this dispute" So all that wholesale violence we used to watch nightly on T.V. during the miners strikes (which was a step short of being a civil war) was 'superbly handled?' it was one of the ugliest episodes in this country's history; appalling levels of brutality on behalf of the police; communities crumbling under the indignity and stress, if no one else could see it going down I certainly did, and Thatcher mobilised the worst blindness of all: _refusing_ to see it.

[@tur74d56]

She did lie she closed down a lot more mines so Arthur was right !

[@jaredt8526]

Wilson closed more mines than Thatcher

[@bruceleroyhoffman]

Maggy Iron Maiden

[@tomharrison1849]

Sir Robin, who comes across as rude and bad tempered, is trounced by every answer, but each time he just asks another question in the same disparaging fashion.

[@rightwing]

4:15 Is it me or is her head slightly larger out of proportion from her body in this video?

[@reichtangle7734]

It’s her hair.

[@johnwalsh7806]

Didn’t Gaddafi donate £6 million to the miners? What happened to that?

[@tedibair]

the previous comment should have been made in my name...

[@laxeystu8096]

His questions about coal were quite right, and Mrs Thatcher was telling tall stories

[@adielstephenson2929]

She's lying through her teeth here. Her aim was to wreck the industry, and she succeeded.

[@johnwheatley5641]

Nonsense. The unions wrecked British industry.

[@davidmathews4524]

You had Better get yourself a good solicitor don't make Comments you have no Knowledge about she was Completely telling the truth

[@stevebaker6149]

Not Robin Day's finest moment. More peeved by not being addressed as Sir Robin than anything else mentioned. And to suggest she should listen to such failed politicians as Gilmour and Heath revealed a shocking lack of knowledge.

[@robcousins231]

Complete and utter lies on the pit closures. The miners were right, they knew exactly what she and McGregor were doing and the miners in Nottinghamshire were proved wrong when their pits were also shut after they were so sure they'd be kept open.

[@zenscimcintyre167]

looking back you can allways see it ........ madnees

[@aishdesai]

😄

[@EdWood2006]

The police were animals.

[@mickwest2650]

THATCHER THE WORST, CROOKED PRIME MINISTER OF THE UK