Thatcher VS Kinnock on Privatization

[@chriswilson1853]

Notice Tony Blair behind Kinnock, nodding like the Churchill's dog at Kinnock's comments, yet just a few years later was PM himself and privatising everything he could get his hands on.

[@briandelaney9710]

Chris Wilson Not true. Thatcher and Major privatized the most by a long shot and let’s not forget the railways which ended up such a disaster as a result

[@UnknownUser-kp4nb]

@@briandelaney9710 railways were worse off nationalised

[@stuartpenman6387]

@@briandelaney9710 city of London was given the freedom to do what it wanted under whom?

[@elasmotherium12]

Privatisation is good!

[@zeddeka]

And what exactly did Blair privatise?

[@godzooke]

Blair in the background, When asked in the late 90s/early 00s what her greatest achievement was, Thatcher replied "New Labour" as they had taken on so many of her policies

[@bdz_4206]

"New Labour" Like in Greece where we have "New Democracy" the zenith of cynical unimaginative c*nts

[@123brownjames]

She owned Kinnock there and Blair knew it

[@dean8282]

Thatcher is responsible for the mess in 2022 - remove that afwul statue. Privatisation failed...

[@zufgh]

Interesting to see the duplicitous Blair giving half-hearted cheers for Kinnock's rebuttals, knowing full well that Blair privately thought of Thatcher's administration as both revolutionary and inspiring.

[@chelseaking1735]

😂😂😭😭😭

[@zeddeka]

That's politics for you. Margaret Thatcher did the same for Edward Heath when she was in his cabinet.

[@zeddeka]

@@chelseaking1735 Margaret Thatcher did the same for Edward Heath when she was in his cabinet.

[@dean8282]

Interesting to see Thatcherism and privatisation collapse in 2022...

[@mided2119]

@@zeddeka And at 2:42 you can see Edward Heath sitting with legs crossed, wearing a bright blue suit, in the front row on the left-hand side.

[@nunyvanstta135]

Is that Tony Blair sitting next to Kinnock???😳😳

[@nmejias370]

Yes, that is him

[@101networks2]

Of course - he'll sit wherever he can manoeuvre himself into a position of prominence

[@stephenbaker2105]

@@101networks2 He should have sat next to Mrs. Thatcher!

[@invisiblemaninvisibleman2097]

No it’s Tony Blair

[@supercjs6044]

Come for the intros, stay for thatcher.

[@OffGridInvestor]

Undervalued. Now WHO valued it???? Because if it was some government employee or government STOOGE then you can BET YOUR UNDIES it was valued at 4 or 5 times its real value.

[@TheMagicLemur]

I'm always curious - do you know if Blair ever asked a question of Thatcher at PMQ's? Hansard must know and it would be an amazing video...?

[@terryhughes1355]

thatcher not only sold the family silver she sold the countries soul

[@stevebaker6149]

Grammar not your strong point??

[@Xanthos307]

@@stevebaker6149 Seeing the point must not be yours.

[@stevebaker6149]

@@Xanthos307 Thank you for agreeing with me.

[@MasterSanders]

Is that a young Tony Blair, I see?

[@mariohernandez-mz1su]

MasterSanders Yea, that little rat face guy you see is he.😆

[@dlk1dlk1]

Yes he did. I think he mentions it in his memoirs. Thatcher replied by producing the details from her handbag.

[@dean8282]

Most likely a brown envelope in her handbag from a crony buying our services.

[@vamos_a_hablar]

Thatcher, on your fight against fat politicians, do not hand the control to fat entrepreneurs. Watchout, you may create an oligarchy/plutocracy out of a democratic republic. That is a shameful setback. Isn´t it?

[@phil955i]

Yet another Labour leader that fell by the wayside...

[@KazgarothUsher]

Love these posts - thanks :D

[@101networks2]

lol Tony Bliar in the background - fake lefty nods to accusing the other side of "looking after your friends"

[@lightbulbsun]

Kinnock was right. A one-off cash bonus for the asset was indeed terrible for the country. Now we're all poorer as all public services are privatised, run for maximum profits, and money only going to shareholders and not back into the service or other public services. Decades later, we live in a country that's been raided and pillaged.

[@dean8282]

Totally agree - the same year Thatcher gets a statue in Grantham her greed is good privatisation mantra in tatters...

[@stocktonheath]

Blair is a Tory in sheep's clothing.

[@phil955i]

It's the only way that Labour gets into power

[@zeddeka]

Aw opposed to some pure hearted, superior socialist like you, who'll see the country under permanent Conservative Party rule so you can feel better about yourself?

[@stocktonheath]

@@zeddeka I'm a Libertarian.

[@23rdjune]

You can tell that Blair doesn't agree with a word that Kinnock is saying!....And then years later, like now, no one believes anything that Blair is saying. Funny that, Isn't it!?

[@jimbob1277]

Yes - it's called Politics. Being an elected official is the most thankless unappreciated task there is. Everyone cheers you on and the moment you have to make decisions, you are derided. You sit by and do nothing when a foreign power murders it's people and you are torn to bits by the UK public, if you step in and take action you are called a murderer for getting involved. In the midst of this, Joe Public and his keyboard warrior army offer up no alternate solutions - just criticism.

[@attiepollard7847]

@@jimbob1277 what makes Blair a murderer? Just because he agreed with bush about wmd's that was never there do to not so good information after the fact? I call him a good man

[@zeddeka]

Same with Thatcher. She sat there nodding and agreeing with Edward Heath when he was prime minister and she was in his cabinet.

[@dean8282]

Maybe do a new video about complete failure of privatisation? August 2022, water companies made over 72 billion since 1989 and not reinvested any of it. Transport in a real mess, energy in crisis, billions in profits and France having 4% increase we are having 54% increase... pow - kazam - splat lol

[@corintomartins467]

E hilário esse vídeo!😁👆

[@paullawrence4986]

Undervalued, is this the same party that sold our gold reserves at a knock down price?

[@afgor1088]

would that be to cover the complete collapse of the economy following thatcher and the likes deregulation of the banks? as usual tories burn the economy to the ground to make a quick quid for them and their mates and we're left with the ashes

Kinnock was logical too

[@godzooke]

Kinnock really wasn't effective up against Thatcher was he? I love how she corrects his parliamentary protocol re conditioning supplementary questions etc she doesn't take him on as an equal at all. It's entertaining to watch them.

[@zeddeka]

I think it was something that she learned from Harold Wilson and James Callaghan when they were prime ministers. They used to do the same to her.

[@dean8282]

It's not about campaigning or debating it's the underlying policy and implementation. Privatisation is a complete failure

[@Votedjt2024]

Margaret Thatcher and Neil kinnock close friend

[@notreyf]

When the Conservatives were worth voting for.

[@MintOutdoors]

The Tories have been giving the country away ever since

[@bobpage6597]

You mean fixing the shite Labour puts us into when they wreck the economy? There's unfortunately a very stupid pattern with the British people. The Conservatives come in to Government, and are forced to make the unpopular, hard yet right choices to fix the wreck Labour have left behind. Maybe a decade passes, and just when things are on the level, Labour get voted back in, and fuck everything up again. It was in the News only a few days ago that for the first time since 2000, the government budget is back in the black, running a £4 billion surplus with all expenditure being covered by taxes. Mark my words if Labour are ever voted in again, they'll get Britain's credit card out and once again wreck everything!! Corbyn's recent U-Turn on Brexit shows what a turncoat bastard he is! A Marxist who for 30 years has been against everything the EU/Common Market stood for, and then he suddenly endorses it, and in doing so, destroying nearly 40% of Labour's voting power base in the north! None too bright, but clearly the fucker will do anything to grab power, even hand the country over to the EU!

[@jimbob1277]

Only in communist countries does the state own and reach into every aspect of your life. It seems that is what you want. The British state did not create most of the things you think of as being state assets and every time it has been responsible for running them it has failed, under successive Labour or Tory governments. Why do you hanker after a rose-tinted past that never actually existed?

[@incredibleXMan]

@@bobpage6597 reductionist

[@dean8282]

@@jimbob1277 enjoy your huge energy bills might seem lower through your rose tinted privatisation glasses...

[@bdz_4206]

​@@jimbob1277 Better to have the 'free-market' reach into every aspect of your life? You know, the thing you can really do nothing about, unlike an elected government but hey, you can't afford gas right? And what are people striking about? I thought the 'free-market' solved everything...

[@raymondwebb4179]

Thatcher was the beginning of the end of fair play and decency in Britain,

[@ingridredfern5065]

Blair....the worst Prime Minister ever.Left the country almost bankrupt..

[@Xanthos307]

You spelt Thatcher wrong.

[@kalky80]

she was damn right

[@zeddeka]

That comment hasn't aged well. I think the British public, having to pay massively inflated energy bills and suffer from appalling water services that dump sewage into rivers and the sea, might disagree.

[@dean8282]

August 2022 and privatisation failed - she was wrong...

[@JaneVulanda-po3hk]

B uniform boo boo bo

[@TheMagicLemur]

lol

[@tomgibson6801]

privatization the worst thing that happened to britain

[@GabrielNicho]

No, that was nationalisation.

[@tomgibson6801]

nope selling of our industrys was evil

[@jimbob1277]

'Our' industries? which ones? the ones you personally set up? the ones the state set up? which were they exactly? Steel, Rail, Power, Water? none of those were set up by the state. Every time the state has tried to run them it has failed? What is it about that you don't get or are you just another dumb northern commie loony leftie who believes everything because that's what you heard as a child ties to the table leg in the local working mens/miners club where your filthy welfare draining parents kept you as they got pissed on the state?

[@tomgibson6801]

shut up tory posh boy. i lived it

[@jimbob1277]

Lol - Tory posh boy? I was brought up in a two up two down in Yorkshire, we didn't have central heating, no car, never went on holiday abroad and I left school with a few GCSEs (in the 90's). I got a job at 16 and have worked incredibly hard - never expected society to do it for me. I know first hand that if you work hard and take responsibility for your own path then anything is possible. You want me as a working class person to depend on the state don't you? it's people like you that are the enemy of the working class, not the tories. They want you to do it yourself, you want me to be dependent because that way I will always have to vote for the left. So I lived it too but clearly you sat and wallowed and thought 'poor me who can I beg for a handout?'. Loony-lefty parasitic scum. Speak to many working-class people who work hard for what they have and you will find many of them vote Tory because they don't like the idea of their hard work being taken away from them to pamper the lazy Labour voters.