Thatcher Vs Kinnock Labour Haven't A Clue

[@debbiearmstrong8273]

Years later and nothings changed with Labour. Clueless back then, clueless now.

[@Canthatcrazy]

Love her, or hate her: she was a leader. Not like this lot these days

[@noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024]

putin?

[@billyburgess3912]

Very true

[@billyburgess3912]

Do t make me Laugh have you seen how far away he sits away from Everyone . That’s thing us just a coward​@@noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Yes..a bad one

[@Canthatcrazy]

@@petyrkowalski9887 only towards the end. She had to spend 8 years cleaning up the mess Labour had left us in!

[@emmaherron5121]

1990- Labour haven’t a clue 2020- Labour still haven’t a clue

[@5gonza541]

Lmao, made me chuckle

[@adamfull6208]

😂😂😂

[@darkmaster83]

Conservatives - Still haven't got a bigger clue.

[@paekman63]

2029 Labour still in opposition.

[@darkmaster83]

@@paekman63 2041, Jeremy Corbyn becomes PM.

[@cestall1]

She was a total badass. Modern "feminists" couldn't hold a candle to her.

[@chloejones1548]

She wasn't a feminist

[@debbieharry387]

i BET YOU ARE UNDER 30

[@chloejones1548]

Fuck no, she was the spawn of Satan@Paulo Chan

[@johnennis5234]

She was that good she got taken out by her own side before she was hammered by the public! Remember the Poll Tax

[@larrybxl5406]

She was a TOTAL DISASTER to the UK and its economy!!

[@historyprofessor1985]

Mrs. Thatcher was truly a badass ! She owned anyone she debated, EVERYTIME!! As an American, we could use someone like her!!!

[@gailcrook2687]

@Bernard Fitzsimons as a one parent family with a young child, it worked for me, then it shot up when it was axed causing us hardship

[@thomaswalker869]

You do. You have donald trump. The best President you could ever get

[@historyprofessor1985]

@@thomaswalker869 , That's highly disrespectful to the legacy of Mrs. Thatcher. To compare her to Trump is like comparing a dignified warrior to a classless twit. Thatcher was fierce and unrelenting, but she always conducted herself with class and dignity. Trump is a loudmouth, arrogant, boorish fool who repeatedly lies and then gets wildly offended whenever someone calls his bullshit. THERE IS ZERO COMPARISON.

[@thomaswalker869]

@@historyprofessor1985 maybe classless in some peoples eyey but he is Americas saviour in chief weather you like or agree with him or not . he the best you got at present. Listen to the British. We will keep you on the right path

[@thomaswalker869]

My comparison was the fact they both take/took no nonsense and actually got things done. A government is only worth its salt when it does its job properly for the people. You wont get that with Joe Biden/Democrat party. The Don is your best option for 2024. You may not like but you cant stop an irresistable force or cast aside an immovable object. It is what it is. America can be saved. Northern Ireland stands behind GOP For midterms 2022 and Trump 2024. Get ready for getting stuff done.

[@mutinyonthekitkat]

Her buttons are like two manic eyes staring out.

[@knicol46]

I voted Labour with the majority in 1997. I am still paying for that mistake in 2020. Labour still do not understand this.

[@heronsdoor4658]

Same here, my friend. Back then, how could we know the famous mantra of Blair... "keep what you want to do hidden from the public until you're in power" ... I'd put him in prison for so many reasons.

[@bingeltube]

Maggie was feisty and well prepared

[@tigerarmyrule]

As she always was. Magnificent lady.

[@pauldavies4496]

that bastard splitarse decimated british industries and wiped out whole communities with her malice and spite good riddance to bad rubbish I wish I could have buried a stake in her evil heart.

[@elcannon9404]

Not sure. This issue killed her off.

[@radiator0]

@@pauldavies4496u welsh by any chance lol.....

[@pauldavies4496]

British and welsh and proud of it. my concern is for the uk as a whole not just wales what that woman did was not out of good for the country but has she admitted a few months before her death that it was out of revenge for the fall of heah' govement which was never the mineworkers or steelworkers intention.

[@peterhawker3958]

The day the tories turned on Maggie its been pretty much a steady decline. She had more balls than the rest of them put together

[@acecase1383]

Maggie owned poor Kinnock.walkover

[@ashbuzz2627]

Total.

[@ChrisGroggyCreaser]

Kinnock Should've been a village idiot...

[@veggie42]

Yes same as Thornberry is wiping the floor with pussy Liddles

[@GryphLane]

Lies. Absolute horseshit.

[@christinacrimari3543]

I disagree, I think Kinnock was underrated

[@gailcrook2687]

I'm enjoying this more now than at the time, I can't stop watching her, clever lady

[@seaside456]

Give me a sick bag,quick.

[@davidgrahambrown3793]

She brought a dose of realism to Britain, replacing a weak Labour government in hock to the trade unions that all but ran the country.

[@mildlydispleased3221]

Dead lady.

[@steveturner6770]

Im so pleased she closed our mines and shipyards.

[@petyrkowalski9887]

« Clever » at selling off all our assets, ruining our infrastructure, suppressing workers rights, ruining our manufacturing industries, enriching herself, her family and horrible friends like Pinochet… cunning and vile but not clever.

[@richardlaversuch2901]

Kinnock hammered again.

[@commanderspock531]

Imagine what she would do to the Communist, IRA, Hamas supporting Corbyn? :D

[@iminaplanet2004]

Margret Thatcher would obliterate Jeremy Corbyn, No offence if anyone supports Labour

[@daleeasternbrat816]

I enjoy watching Parliament more than I do Congress. Especially when someone like Margaret Thatcher is speaking.

[@johnking5174]

Don't bother watching parliament in 2020 - they are awful

[@ecpnothnagel9121]

Kinnock? Never ever heard of him. Thatcher though? What a woman. What a legend!

[@JacobSnell1998]

You're clearly an American. There is nothing wrong with that, I'm one myself. But any British person will know the Lord Kinnock. He led Labour for a decade in the Commons and still remains in Parliament in the Lords.

[@bruh949]

Thank god Major also wiped the flaw with Kinnock. What a stupid man. Stood no chance against Thatcher or Major.

[@RH-xf4vf]

She was a brilliant debater. So sharp. And he by contrast could really waffle. However, on the substantive point, the poll tax was an unmitigated disaster and thoroughly pernicious.

[@richardhall4830]

Whereas council tax is utterly marvellous? The poll tax was simply a means to show ordinary ppl that government is the great fiction whereby everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.

[@23rdjune]

Mrs T was a giant on the world stage. Took us from being 'The economic basket case of Europe' under Labour during 'The winter of discontent' to a world economic power once again (oh, and throw in sending a task force to sort out Argentina in the Falklands, which no one else would have done) and she was demonstrably way better than any muppet we've had since!

[@kenmay1572]

Is that why she was sacked, not by a Gen Elec, but by her own party

[@keithmooney299]

Maggie Thatcher v Neil Kinnock. Only ever gonna be one winner there and it's not Kinnock!!

[@phillipgreer4875]

I never admitted this before and I was always anti-thatcher but there is no doubt in my mind now she was the best PM we ever had. So much better than the anti british, pro immigration (cos he thinks it'll make us more left wing)spendthrift Corbyn. And I have voted Labour all my life. But never for Corbyn.

[@lainewoolcock1335]

Clement Attlee was the best prime minister we've ever had. His government created the NHS, finalised the welfare state and saved the UK from a recession that would have occurred if Churchill had been in government following WWII.

[@michaellirette929]

She was the best

[@cg8130]

Im a labor voter, from a familiy of labor voters and im willing to say we need someone like her! Corbyns a prat.

[@michaellirette929]

C G well said

[@commanderspock531]

PHILLIP GREER - I was a child of the 80s and we were all conditioned to hate Thatcher mainly by the BBC. Today, I think back to the 80s and it's not just nostalgia I would far rather be there than in this decade and I say we've regressed so far now into a state of degeneracy, chaos, atomization as a people in Britain and there is no 'Conservative' party anymore. Nothing is conserved, everything is progressive, everything is being eroded and destroyed that made this nation so great.

[@telabib]

That bag of wind (mr expenses) was no match for Maggie.

[@ibrahimahmed6739]

telabib you’re rude 😂

[@sjm2752]

The Conservatives wiped the floor with Labour then and 30 years later continue to do so!

[@naeem11111]

Blair was masterful during PM questions.

[@briandelaney9710]

Not anymore. Tories on the way out

[@norrissidek2519]

The Iron Lady of the Great Britain..RIP Madam.

[@scottmiller4869]

This country would be a better place if Thatcher was in charge none of this I'm offended at this and that bullshit

[@5centsworth107]

There were definite problems with poll taxes especially in admin collection due to mobile workforce etc but Thatcher defended well and logically. Should learn from this lady how to argue calmly, with facts and stating stand very clearly without being flustered by heckling.

[@vordman]

Maggie was a one off. Never entered the Commons without doing her homework first. Total pro.

[@At_the_races]

The , so called poll tax was completely fair, Why should a house of ten pay, the same in rates, as a house of two?

[@mauricelloyd839]

because a woman stayed at home to look after her children had no income, but was expected to pay poll tax

[@gareththomas6714]

A Wiganer--poll tax fair?A Wanker would be more accurate lmao

[@davidinchester]

Loving seeing Maggie wipe the floor with Kinnock as she always did!

[@jules-tt3ro]

David Elliott ...no she shit on the majority of the uk...u weren't a miner or self employed or working class??

[@jules-tt3ro]

u 21 disgust me...

[@GINOTERMINIELLO-gj7ih]

David Elliott she wipe up my sticky liquid

[@southendparaquest]

@@jules-tt3ro Two words. Arthur, and Scargill. Who started with a small house and a big union? And then ended up with the opposite?

[@kimk7163]

You clearly didn’t live in the north when peoples lives were ruined because they had no where to work because she closed the mines down!

[@KazgarothUsher]

The Poll Tax was her worst political error

[@terrychilderley9574]

Difficult to tell, she made so many. Took a long time before somebody in her party had to guts to bring her down.

[@Outdoorshuntingshooting]

It was not implemented very well by local authorities. It was a well-intentioned improvement to local finance that was sabotaged.

[@sorenbailey9888]

@@Outdoorshuntingshooting Rubbish, it taxed the poor and made the wealthy more so.

[@jamessidebottom5868]

we could do with lady Thatcher now with Brexit! GREAT PRIME MINISTER

[@Red1Green2Blue3]

Thatcher was the main inventor of the Single Market LMAO. God brexiteers are stupid.

[@Kukryniksy1974]

The best prime minister

[@terrychilderley9574]

She was pro europe. Think before you comment.

[@dannyH84]

@@terrychilderley9574 that went right over your head didn’t it

[@Robby334]

Not seen dear Maggie on youtube for ages - Glad she is back "Good on you Maggie" xxx RIP

[@stephenasbridge878]

Neil Kinnock was so perfect to become an EU commissioner; absolutely an empty vessel.

[@largesatsuma]

As useless as Kinnock was, he was still better than Corbyn is right now.

[@garya4907]

I sadly agree..

[@marygoodnight8892]

Thumbed up.

[@Azhark94]

fuck off ya muppet, look at him now.

[@garya4907]

Fuck off yourself he's fucking nowhere and never will be.... He's promising the world and buying votes ; this twat if he got in would bankrupt the lot of us. If you have any shares they'll be wiped out the country would be on it's knees+ over run with his friends from terror organisations.....

[@largesatsuma]

Labour is going to lose this election. That's what I'm looking at.

[@expressoevangelism80]

‘Shouldn’t believe everything we read in the newspapers.’ Substitute ANYTHING.

[@mshroye2]

I’m an American who is a Bernie Sanders supporter but I admire her greatly because she stood up for what she believed in and she was able to wipe the floor with those tossers on the other side of the house I still feel the if her MPs weren’t looking out for themselves in 1990 and booted her out she would have kicked Neil Kinnocks ass again in 1992

[@ecpnothnagel9121]

Yeah don't be a Bernie Sanders supporter please. Just vote Trump this year and stop the silliness. Your country is in a dumpster due to woke socialists and you're running out of time.

[@gentlerowdy]

what an amazing lady !!!!

[@pauldavies4496]

piss off jerk

[@Jay-ej9ru]

What a horrible bitch. Thatcher and Cameron did more to destroy this country than any other PM in history. Get real!

[@Tad1945]

she closed everything she did`nt do anything for the working class.

[@Tad1945]

she was not an amazing lady just a ruthless one.

[@ColHogan-le5yk]

Yeah if you were rich

[@Nopicrandom]

I like how much more lively this is compared to what we have in the States.

[@banksplay]

0:53 Eu sinto muito desapontá-lo... mas ele não deveria acreditar em tudo que lê nos jornais.

[@mauricelloyd839]

the poll tax was a totaly infair

[@bilimitsu]

Wasn't the poll tax scrapped almost immediately in the face of wide public protest, suggesting that Mr Kinnock was in fact proved right here?

[@chrisholland1504]

Er? Have you been on the planet Zog?

[@briandelaney9710]

@@chrisholland1504 it WAS and they were soon to scrap Mrs T as well

[@mikeanagnostou4399]

The poll tax was Thatcher’s undoing. So many years in No. 10 made her oblivious to the consequences of the poll tax and the backlash. The Tories are ruthless when it comes to tearing down their leaders.

[@benjaminwilliams2264]

Poll tax damaged her reputation her own side brought her down. Shame Michael Heseltine didn't replace her.

[@mikeanagnostou4399]

Michael Heseltine would have made a great PM.

[@Lellobeetle]

Give 'em another jab, Lady T.

[@Why_even_try]

Ah, Mrs Thatcher. This 80s pubescent boy's first crush.

[@carljohnson4353]

Thatcher was badass but that's weird hahaha

[@joecurran2811]

That's a strange first crush 😂

[@arynrowland862]

Wait a minute, first he criticized her for implementing poll taxes, then he criticized her for capping them in the same breath.😂 Apparently Labour was always wishy-washy.

[@Inyourlap]

This is enjoyable to watch. The debate is fun but the poll tax led to her downfall. It was a mistake. She couldn’t listen to the people anymore, she thought she was untouchable. Eventually she was kicked out by her own party

[@streamsofconsciousness8651]

I'm still not convinced that the community charge was wrong. The concept that we all contribute, rather than just homeowners, was a very unpopular but not at all unreasonable idea

[@doctorsocrates4413]

she was betrayed by her own party...it was john major who brought in the council tax to replace poll tax.

[@rjhtrucking5429]

The poll tax didn't bring her down , her own back benchers did. Get your facts right .

[@Inyourlap]

@@rjhtrucking5429 Get yours right and get some perspective. All historians agree on the fact that the poll tax was the last straw that started her downfall. The Conservative MPs couldn’t support her anymore because there was too much discontent in their constituencies. Members of the cabinet also decided that was enough. If you have a short term vision of history, her backbenchers indeed brought her down. But you’re certainly not too stupid to understand that they must have some reasons to do so. A party doesn’t disown their leader just because a whim strikes them. The poll tax was voted in 87/88 and progressively implemented in 89/90. After the poll tax was announced, opinion polls showed the Labour opposition opening a strong lead over the Conservative government. Following the Poll Tax Riots, Conservative ministers contemplated abolition of the tax but knew that, as a flagship Thatcherite policy, its abolition would not be possible while Thatcher was still Prime Minister. Kinnock had vowed to abolish the poll tax if he won the next general election. For this, among other reasons, Thatcher was challenged by Michael Heseltine for the Conservative leadership in November 1990. Although she prevailed by a margin of fifty votes, she narrowly missed the threshold to avoid a second vote, and on 22 November 1990 she announced her resignation after more than a decade in office. All three of the contenders to succeed her pledged to abandon the tax.

[@joecurran2811]

​@@streamsofconsciousness8651It didn't take into account wealth levels which is what really did it in

[@rich3222]

All I remember as a kid was people on the estates having signs up saying we won't pay poll tax,its funny isn't it ,as they are the real tax collectors

[@Interlocutor67]

Unlike parasitic billionaires, corporations, and bankers. Oh wait, the people you admire.

[@PinheadLarryVEVO]

Thank you so much thatcheritescot for feeding my thatcher obsession!

[@griekgek]

Harry Conner Quite right, I feel quite the same

[@quick46]

She's still dead boys & sizzling in hell

[@ryanhunter2987]

Quite!

[@ladyeowens3370]

She's amazing. These two needed each other and were a gift to us. Shame modern politicians are so pathetic!

[@jjhearn]

Love the intros to your videos ha

[@AdamBirty]

What's funny is that after all this, when Labour got in post-thatcher they kept the poll tax... This just goes to show that all Labour know's how to do is political point score, they haven't been for the working classes for decades.

[@paulrispin4989]

Huh? What are you on about? Labour got in in 1997. The poll tax was scrapped in 1993.

[@protium1960]

What utter bollocks! Thatcher's successor, John Major, abolished the tax when he took office in November 1990. In 1993, the tax was replaced by the council tax, which helped shift some of the tax burden off the poor.

[@benjaminwilliams2264]

John Major got in in 1992 and replaced the poll tax with council tax a year later. Maybe they should have just stuck with the Rates.

[@reemlsilkworm]

"The right honourable gentleman never conditions his supplementary questions to my previous replies" 1:42

[@elspethcoogan1499]

In other words, he doesn’t listen. But MT had a fine way with the English language.

[@contourbody]

Screwed the British Coal industry and never replaced those proud and skilled workforce's jobs, leaving the once thriving and self sustaining Nottinghamshire+South Yorkshire town and village communities, with absolutely nothing!!!

[@daniellelomag90]

This ambient it's like a pub...

[@Matt-cz6ti]

She’d eviscerate Johnson and his gang of half-wits if she was alive today

[@oliprj8676]

My parents always said they voted for Maggie just because Kinnock would have been an awful PM. 😂

[@terrychilderley9574]

Obviously wrong to trust your parents.

[@chrisholland1504]

@@terrychilderley9574 Oh yes, he did so much good at the EU. In enriching himself.

[@andrewdavies5193]

Cracks me up that so many on here are claiming how great she was and how she wiped the floor with Kinnock and how he didn’t have a clue. Wasn’t this debate around the Poll tax being wrong/flawed etc etc? What exactly happened to the Poll tax in the end? Oh yes how could we forget………and you are all mostly saying that she was thy great one! My word!!!!

[@jonwarddotcom]

The poll tax ended Thatcher. The evidence clearly points to her not having a clue. Anything else just theatrical appreciation.

[@streamsofconsciousness8651]

The Thatcher decade was my political awakening. Watching back now brings back so many emotions and memories. I recall my then-MP inviting me to see her perform at a Prime Minister's question time. Not something I will ever forget. This was when political leaders were giants and true statespeople. How low politics and government has fallen.

[@Langy24]

Kinnock was, and still is, an absolute and complete plonker.

[@scudder91]

The principle of replacing rates was sound in principle, but the pole tax was hated by conservatives as well as labour. I still remember the hapless Tory candidate who was sent to defend it at the ribble valley bi election and was told "ex Tories, that's what we are." The pole tax was hated by nearly everyone.

[@anthonymagliaro4791]

Madam Thatcher one of the best in the commons, you attacked her at your peril...

[@terrychilderley9574]

Yes, never attack a dictator.

[@ibyghee]

But let's be honest, the poll tax failed so bad XD . It was a legit failure by Thatcher and there is no arguing in that.

[@jinnymudlark1815]

A mistake. Against so much else that was strong.

[@ericpreston8877]

Like what? Bleeding hundreds of thousands of miners and carpenters and electricians to enrich a few thousand City of London lawyers and bankers and accountants?

[@malcolmmarshall4371]

Labour still don’t have a clue in 2020

[@ciaranmarsh255]

The Tories are worse

[@thetruth156real3]

Poll tax, a lord in a fifty bedroom house set in 10,000 acres pays less then a single parent in a council house. Yea she was a lovely woman!

[@allanstack7016]

What do you expect from a Tory.

[@babygirl10711978]

Nothing like a good hand bagging from Mrs. t

[@sonofwallacecoyb4744]

babygirl10711978 A bitch of the highest order.

[@theant9821]

@@sonofwallacecoyb4744 any bitch is better than a socialist.

[@garyanthony5292]

Let's be realistic Thatcher in a superhero costume is not the way she will be remembered by those who lived through her capital privatisation and other policies. One of the things she said was that competing energy providers would make everyone's bills cheaper... That never happened!

[@zippymo672]

I'm a Labour man. But I loved the Kinnock vs Thatcher duels. They were great to watch. Do you have any Thatcher vs Wilson and Callaghan audio? If so please post.

[@nigelbarrett4091]

Thatcher scored zero points on social justice and us students called her Thatcher the milk snatcher .

[@susanhughs1031]

I grew up In the 1960's And worked for British rail In the 1970's I was prevented from doing my very under paid job because of Labour unions Like ASFLET (the train driver's union ) lead by Ray Buckton A lazy git who only turned up for work to call strike action a Dozen time a year,? My dad was made redundant In 1965, by that moron Harald Wilson,!!, that K.G.B. Agent for the soviets In russkiy land I can honestly say I have voted Labour AND never will,!!!!!!!, TOO ALL PROPPER LABOUR OLD LABOUR I URGE YOU TO VOTE U.K.I.P. AND FOR BREXIT ,. I THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT BRITISH PEOPLE,.

[@echoecho9429]

Susan Hughs z

[@ewoodrailway]

Susan Hughs. Now the railway has piss failing driving DOO after destroying our prisons and police. This muppet isn't fit to tie his shoelaces. On ASLEF..the last union this country had as everyone else has folded as the government drive us towards dictatorship. People are conditioned by the bullshit and our Island will drown in the sea around it. Corbyns not ideal but he's for the people unlike the out of touch Tories.

[@quick46]

Prevented from doing "your underpaid job" well hard luck you servile sheep, some people wanted better for themselves & didn't want to spend their lives tugging their forelocksEVERY employee right in this country is thanks to worker/union power, the Tories have given you nothing, except the right to buy council house stock they stole from the boroughs to sell to you at knock down prices to make you mortgage slavesYou working class Tories are fucking imbeciles & you don't know your history.

[@MM-tk9ek]

So true....miners Scargill overturned their vote to work...and during strike his number two went on holiday..to Spain..

[@licencedtospill]

How do you feel about being unable to spell properly? Teacher's unions, I imagine; nothing to do with you being a lazy little git.

[@davidclegg2455]

Oxford just can't produce PM's with any standing these days.

[@andyharpist2938]

I wonder how he lives with himself really far away from Wales with his five pensions...

[@MrEarthling99]

I'm disgusted to share a Welsh identity with Neil Kinnock.

[@pauldavies4496]

@Wayne Logan bevan gave us the nhs you ungrateful little shit.

[@ks-on7gg]

nothing changed ,labour still dont have a clue.

[@philfletcher3434]

Neil Kinnock looks a lot like Putin here.

[@gumusluk16]

Poll tax was totally correct, why should a couple pay the same as 5 people living next door in the same kind of house.

[@irnbrubhoy]

In the end Kinnock was right. It was dropped and it was the beginning of the end for that government

[@peterh1353]

Don't understand what some of the commentators are on about. The Poll Tax was her biggest mistake and we all know it - including her own party who stabbed her in the back over it.

[@marygoodnight8892]

Yes, I remember having to pay poll tax as a student - outrageous.

[@peretzo]

Actually on the Community Charge Mr Kinnock DID get it right; and Mrs Thatcher got it wrong.

[@SteedHiggins]

Interesting that although she wiped the floor with Kinnock, as this was on 6 October 1990, within just 6 weeks she would have resigned as Prime Minister.

[@serbanandreimarin]

Backstabed by her own party and against the wishes of the Party members

[@TCMNoah]

Wasn’t it the poll tax that doomed her?

[@matthewleitch1]

It was more the ambitions of her colleagues, increasingly frustrated at not getting their chance as PM. PMs tend not to last much more than two terms in the UK and I think this is one major reason why.

[@terryhughes1355]

she was so good the tories got rid of her

[@goddambitch12]

that woman robbed me of my milk at school.thatcher the snacher

Ole Maggie had everything a lady politician wants and that is hair that does not move!

[@marksloan4452]

The comments here are hilarious and ironic. Regardless of who you might think looked better in that clip, Kinnock was the one proven correct. The Poll Tax (Community Charge) WAS a huge error and WAS abolished in a couple of years and DID lead to the downfall of Thatcher, exactly as Kinnock said.

[@christinacrimari3543]

Absolutely bloody true, I was a student at the time and was billed with the Poll Tax, I didn't pay it initially and was chased for it, I considered it a complete insult and an outrage!!

[@marygoodnight8892]

I love the Thatcher/ Kinnock debates, because their styles are so different. He's not got a bad voice actually.

[@warrenalexander5285]

Kinnock was totally outclassed.

[@benjaminwilliams2264]

How did the poll tax work out for her? 2 landslides and then a smaller majority for Major. Then 1997.

[@BobK5]

Mr Kinnock was correct, Poll tax was doomed but she couldn’t see it.

[@joecurran2811]

I think it was too late at this point. Too late to go back...

[@stuartpenman6387]

how much do you want these 2 back?

[@magicwandfour]

Ah Maggie- the woman who supported Pol Pott

[@85percentnation]

Is that Robin Cook next to Kinnock?

[@vickilindberg6336]

This whole process seems chaos but it's certainly more honest than the usually dull US Congress.

[@Robby334]

Well it was her downfall was the poll tax .... but she was a great leader sadly gone RIP Lady T.

[@johnclark3697]

Where exactly is she buried?????

[@pauldavies4496]

sadly gone ? bollocks!!! good riddance to the bastard.

[@pauldavies4496]

good riddance to the bastard.

[@quick46]

Why, do you need a piss?

[@alecneate76]

I'm 18 and from what I've seen of thatcher I think she was an amazing leader but the poll tax seems to be her big downfall. Could someone explain whether it was really a mistake or not since I don't really understand it?

[@johnhigson94]

It was replaced by "Council tax", so it still exists to some degree but has had amendments made to its policy. 🤔🤔

[@AndrewMundellAndrewJMundell]

And they still haven't a clue

[@EugVR6]

The poll tax was her undoing, but she was a proper leader.

[@manuelodabashian]

Thatcher never actually answered a single question put to her

[@johnbunyan5834]

That's not quite true. However , the same claim could made about every Prime Minister since.

[@alanhoyle8901]

Wow!!! What great prime ministers question time far removed from the nonsense we get today. Whether you liked or not she was a good leader and we have no one like her today in any party. What a mess we are in 😪

[@aBetterMove]

A woman without the guile to get through any substantial reforms such as the poll tax, withdrawal from the EU, or the proper reform of the NHS that we still desperately need. That's the one thing Tony Blair had that she didn't, more's the pity.

[@stix2you1]

Kinnock is and was a grade one prat, a totally useless individual and this has handed down to his son. Thatcher was different class, not always right but most certainly head and shoulders above the opposition.

[@kaycamille1544]

They broke the mould after Margaret. She could wipe the floor with any politition past or present

[@ChefEarthenware]

It was the weakness of Labour which afforded her such huge majorities. She was right in principle, but some of her implementations could have been better managed. If we had a decent opposition at the time, perhaps some of those errors could have been avoided.

[@stevenhulbert6973]

Constant talking in the background. Shut. up.

[@Moltenbramley]

Steven Hulbert I know right

[@LoganSewell83]

That's the appeal of the UK Parliament. Without this noise we never would have had "Spitting Image" nor "Land of Confusion."

[@robin-hr9up]

Kinnock - you can't fix stupid. However, he is now coining it in Europe.