Why Everyone HATES Thatcher...

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From shutting the mines to selling off British public assets, Margaret Thatchers legacy has fundamentally changed British culture... Today we explore why everybody HATES thatcher...
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[@JimmyTheGiant]

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[@JDMdrifterboy7]

Are you still blading? I literally just subscribed 10 minutes ago after watching like 4 vids of you discussing/participating

[@teslercoil5174]

A video worthy of a Halloween night.

[@iskindersam7834]

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[@iskindersam7834]

This link gives you all the reasons why this all happened. Enjoy. Great work by the way. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🔥💯

[@trulymental7651]

No!!!

[@kravvall4869]

The lady who heard she died and asked „if they rammed a wooden stick through her heart to ensure she’s dead“ still lives rent free in my head

[@No.Good.Nickname]

Very reasonable. Before this video, I didn't know much about her, but I knew that she was very awful, not on the same level as Hitler, but I knew she supported other very bad guys. After this, I learned she was worse than I thought.

[@hansoskar1911]

she actually died this summer. RIP to the absolute Legend.

[@ronlipsius]

@@No.Good.Nickname Gosh, such a quick learner. Freak.

[@koltoncrane3099]

I saw Jimmy on snapchat and he was well spoken and seemed genuine. However, he used misinformation to represent maga and inequality saying the right controls the media and social media. The wealthy democrats like bill gates own the Washington post, Facebook, Twitter till Elon bought it, etc. The ciazzz also pays reporters to filter information. Kamala called out Elon saying free speech needs to be regulated so people can’t speak freely to millions online essentially. Yes inequality needs to be addressed but it’s a total lie to say the party of the right is the party of rich people. The left support huge taxes in Cali because the rich uses tax loopholes like qualified small business stock exemptions to invest 50 million and sell the company for 5 billion 100% tax free and rollover the rest into new companies tax free. Yes I extremely dislike VP Vance cause he lied about hatians. But don’t hate on populism or a guy supported by the masses. Tons of democrats were populists like JFK, FDR, etc. Reagan was a populist and extremely bad when he sold cocaine and then prosecuted people that bought his drugs. He was bad. But fundamentally look at Obama he supported the rich first and foremost. Rich rule said the greatest handout the rich got was when presidents pushed interest rates to zero which Obama did for years and the eventually it happened under trump after the federal reserve cut rates in 2019 or 2020. But you have to admit Obama dropping rates to zero making money free it was essentially a huge and massive tax cut or the equivalent of it. If the cost of capital drops dramatically it makes your profits way bigger meaning tax rates can stay the same and the rich earn way more still cause the government made cost of capital way cheaper essentially free for the rich. The academic left even in college believes in Keynesian economics and until you actually think about the cost of money and the institutionalized theft that happens when you create new currency out of thin air you’ll be indoctrinated thinking it’s moral because you simply just regurgitate what your professors teach you. Colleges don’t teach you to have healthy skepticism and question things in your mind. My tax professor thought estate taxes were moral even though the constitution says direct taxes must be apportioned amongst the states, and they never taught really that a lot of assets goes up simply cause the quantity of currency in existence continues to expand a lot keeping the inequality or bubbles in existence. They may mention it briefly but never to question if it’s moral or ethical or they’ll say it’s needed to maintain jobs but won’t admit it’s the largest reason for wealth inequality. If Obama would have let interest rates normalize or stay higher rather than taking them to zero for instance yes jobs would have been lost but the ultra rich would have lost a tremendous amount of money bringing wealth inequality down. There’s a reason Warren buffet supports democrats and still is filthy rich. He said he wants moats and protectionism for his businesses which is exactly what government agencies do is help protect his business. I’m not saying we shouldn’t have agencies and regulations but you must always discuss how that the government actually helps big corporations and make the left richer, too. It’s not just the right. Democrats used to be the party of the people but look at how many monopolies owned by democrat billionaires that exist. Democrats of the past were against massive monopolies and oligarchs and today seem to be the same party of the right but they differ on some issues to virtue signal. Amazon or bezos lawsuit in Georgia showed how DEI is used to increase diversity at warehouses because studies show the greater there’s diversity the less likely there are going to be unions! They’re using the woke movement to make more money essentially. Personally I’m not a fan of unions as I’ve read history and how unions abuse members or ran by the mob etc. but Amazon or bezos is horrible for virtue signaling when they’re really using the movement to help them. Also if you care about wealth inequality think about this issue. If you have idk 300 million people or whatever in the U.S. and you bring in 30 million illegal immigrants over a decade and they’re 10% of the U.S. population obviously you’re going to make wealth inequality way worse statistic wise because you’re bringing in such a huge amount of new poor people you’re making the data even worse. No one talks about that. Also talk about the key issue that the federalreserve or centralbank is privately owned and pays a 6%dividend to wallstreet. It’s fascist to have the government give a monopoly of the printing press essentially to wallstreet. The government pays wallstreet to borrow money. Essentially Bernie sanders promoting modern monetary theory is really far right and not a democrat or left. Bernie sanders is wanting to do what Abraham Lincoln as Lincoln used modern monetary theory to fund the civil war not borrowing from banks but printing the money without issuing debt. Yes it can be inflationary but it’s the government that has the right to create money not a private bank. So Bernie sanders can be considered as extreme far right like Thomas Jefferson since Bernie opposes a private centralbank.

[@greggpasty8965]

Chill out dude

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

Thatcher was so cataclysmically red pilled she said we _don't_ live in a society.

[@EEX97623]

"“I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the Government must house me!” and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first… There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.’" Essentially her idea of government is just to collect taxes and redistribute profits to the few, and the rest just need to get on with it, and not complain.

[@Now_Roxas]

omfg what

[@ronlipsius]

@@Now_Roxas Relax, you don't know what that means.

[@koltoncrane3099]

I saw Jimmy on snapchat and he was well spoken and seemed genuine. However, he used misinformation to represent maga and inequality saying the right controls the media and social media. The wealthy democrats like bill gates own the Washington post, Facebook, Twitter till Elon bought it, etc. The ciazzz also pays reporters to filter information. Kamala called out Elon saying free speech needs to be regulated so people can’t speak freely to millions online essentially. Yes inequality needs to be addressed but it’s a total lie to say the party of the right is the party of rich people. The left support huge taxes in Cali because the rich uses tax loopholes like qualified small business stock exemptions to invest 50 million and sell the company for 5 billion 100% tax free and rollover the rest into new companies tax free. Yes I extremely dislike VP Vance cause he lied about hatians. But don’t hate on populism or a guy supported by the masses. Tons of democrats were populists like JFK, FDR, etc. Reagan was a populist and extremely bad when he sold cocaine and then prosecuted people that bought his drugs. He was bad. But fundamentally look at Obama he supported the rich first and foremost. Rich rule said the greatest handout the rich got was when presidents pushed interest rates to zero which Obama did for years and the eventually it happened under trump after the federal reserve cut rates in 2019 or 2020. But you have to admit Obama dropping rates to zero making money free it was essentially a huge and massive tax cut or the equivalent of it. If the cost of capital drops dramatically it makes your profits way bigger meaning tax rates can stay the same and the rich earn way more still cause the government made cost of capital way cheaper essentially free for the rich. The academic left even in college believes in Keynesian economics and until you actually think about the cost of money and the institutionalized theft that happens when you create new currency out of thin air you’ll be indoctrinated thinking it’s moral because you simply just regurgitate what your professors teach you. Colleges don’t teach you to have healthy skepticism and question things in your mind. My tax professor thought estate taxes were moral even though the constitution says direct taxes must be apportioned amongst the states, and they never taught really that a lot of assets goes up simply cause the quantity of currency in existence continues to expand a lot keeping the inequality or bubbles in existence. They may mention it briefly but never to question if it’s moral or ethical or they’ll say it’s needed to maintain jobs but won’t admit it’s the largest reason for wealth inequality. If Obama would have let interest rates normalize or stay higher rather than taking them to zero for instance yes jobs would have been lost but the ultra rich would have lost a tremendous amount of money bringing wealth inequality down. There’s a reason Warren buffet supports democrats and still is filthy rich. He said he wants moats and protectionism for his businesses which is exactly what government agencies do is help protect his business. I’m not saying we shouldn’t have agencies and regulations but you must always discuss how that the government actually helps big corporations and make the left richer, too. It’s not just the right. Democrats used to be the party of the people but look at how many monopolies owned by democrat billionaires that exist. Democrats of the past were against massive monopolies and oligarchs and today seem to be the same party of the right but they differ on some issues to virtue signal. Amazon or bezos lawsuit in Georgia showed how DEI is used to increase diversity at warehouses because studies show the greater there’s diversity the less likely there are going to be unions! They’re using the woke movement to make more money essentially. Personally I’m not a fan of unions as I’ve read history and how unions abuse members or ran by the mob etc. but Amazon or bezos is horrible for virtue signaling when they’re really using the movement to help them. Also if you care about wealth inequality think about this issue. If you have idk 300 million people or whatever in the U.S. and you bring in 30 million illegal immigrants over a decade and they’re 10% of the U.S. population obviously you’re going to make wealth inequality way worse statistic wise because you’re bringing in such a huge amount of new poor people you’re making the data even worse. No one talks about that. Also talk about the key issue that the federalreserve or centralbank is privately owned and pays a 6%dividend to wallstreet. It’s fascist to have the government give a monopoly of the printing press essentially to wallstreet. The government pays wallstreet to borrow money. Essentially Bernie sanders promoting modern monetary theory is really far right and not a democrat or left. Bernie sanders is wanting to do what Abraham Lincoln as Lincoln used modern monetary theory to fund the civil war not borrowing from banks but printing the money without issuing debt. Yes it can be inflationary but it’s the government that has the right to create money not a private bank. So Bernie sanders can be considered as extreme far right like Thomas Jefferson since Bernie opposes a private centralbank.

[@Tanzadog1]

@@Now_Roxas True.: "..... and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families ....." Thatcher, Margaret. 1987. ‘Interview for “Woman’s Own” (“No Such Thing as Society”).’ in Margaret Thatcher Foundation: Speeches, Interviews and Other Statements. London.

[@spuriusscapula6481]

"[Discussing the cost of Thatcher's funeral] For that much money they could have given everyone in Scotland a shovel, we woulda dug down to hell and handed her over in person" - Frankie Boyle

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

@@spuriusscapula6481 Celebrating someone’s death, some people will always be lowlifes.

[@johnm7491]

@@ShotsMerkzAll To be fair, the Poll Tax had sealed the deal in regards to Scottish opinions of Thatcher.

[@DasMaggie]

@@ShotsMerkzAll this person is responsible for the loss of homes, jobs and lifes of thousands of people and giving the lobbyists and rich people all the power they could wish for. ofc the average bloke was celebrating, as they should.

[@mori1bund]

@@ShotsMerkzAll "lowlife" is what Thatcher did to countless people.

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

@@DasMaggie How can you blame her for such things and believe it comes from a place of evil? She’s a human being who had UK’s interests in her heart

[@gracemastrogiacomo393]

When my friends at a girls night out come up with "women in power are much better" I always remember them of Old Maggie. Women in power are like men in power, only power matters.

[@lilyofthatvelley]

Yeah, people in general gave a bad habit of misusing the power we get

[@joshforeman1648]

Or Liz Truss 😂

[@narrgamedesigner2747]

​@@joshforeman1648At least she got the boot before she could do a 30+ year damage.

[@Valery0p5]

I mean, just look at the current Italian premier... She doesn't even want to be addressed as "Miss" President.

[@ballerina3483]

Not just in power as in politician we often forget how women have hurt other women.

[@joshslater2426]

My dad and my grandparents still hate Thatcher. He says she ultimately destroyed British communities. Before you’d know everyone in your neighbourhood, but because she shut all the businesses and mines. She’s the reason this country has no industry and we have to rely on foreign exports.

[@uwusmolbean]

👮Good cop/bad Cop 👮 (they are all against you)

[@janssen18]

Plot twist buddy, every industrialized nation in the world is dependent on imports. That’s why Brexit fucked the UK left and right.

[@rogerkeleshian2215]

Dude, those industries were operating at a loss & yet they were still demanding more payments even though their output never improved in value. If she complied with their demands, the country would've dug itself into a deeper hole. Thatcher didn't kill British industry, that ship already sailed off and she was dealing with the fallout.

[@rogerkeleshian2215]

You think neil kinnock would've done anything to fix the situation? That old windbag had 0 plans to solve any problems and just would've tried to make everyone feel good at the negotiating table.

[@stephan6372]

​@@rogerkeleshian2215 let's start with state owned industry: mining etc... They deliberately allowed these industries to suffer, through thievery and unions so they could sell to their cronies at a low price.

[@dapperdarlingdm5723]

"What would you like to know, would you like a list of every donor since 1955?" Yes, please, that would be marvellous.

[@tommurphy4770]

Like it’s such a far fetched thing to want to know where your ideas and money is coming from and thus where your loyalties lie

[@hademers2]

@@tommurphy4770 Because when the people know, the people can start working to do something about it. They naturally don't want that, because they'll lose. The powerful and greedy have been at war with the common man since the first human settlements.

[@OakTree-LandScapeOnFacBook]

@@hademers2 or they wants what’s best for there family, which means getting as much wealth as possible. Learning ways to make sure they gain more than the common man.

[@OakTree-LandScapeOnFacBook]

@@hademers2 it’s not war don’t over hype yourself it’s competence and caring for their own family.

[@hademers2]

@@OakTree-LandScapeOnFacBook It's greed, sociopathy and disregard for the humanity of others. Stealing from others and exploiting others is not competence and caring for your family. There's plenty of people that can provide for their family without exploiting others. Perhaps if the only way they seem to be able to care for their own family is this, they should've never started a family. Not our problem that they want to live in excess. But they do make it ours.

[@bennylush]

Selling off gas, oil, water was the equivalent of taking the family silver to cash converters.

[@FlowDeFlowDrainage]

You are correct, but if you think the government had a choice you are not correct. Before Thatcher the country had been subjected to power cuts and soaring oil prices. This lead to the government begging the IMF for a loan. Yes Great Britain was bailed out by the IMF. Add to that the cost of the Falklands war and the rising burden of the welfare state Britain needed some breathing space. Selling off the utilities was one of few options available. Had the people who brought the shares held them instead of selling them for a small profit right away they would be reaping the dividends still. Sure the city fat cats took a big chunk of them, but those fat cats were bankrolling the government so they had a lot of power. That was not caused by Thatcher, and she nor any government since had the power to change it. What she did was to buy the nation time to allow the revenues from North Sea Oil rise to plug some of the gaps.

[@t3hmaniac]

Worse, its selling off the car you use to drive to work and then hiring the taxi company you sold it to for your commute every day.

[@FlowDeFlowDrainage]

@@t3hmaniac You are right but the difference is that the people who bought those utilities owned the nations debt. To use your example you have a huge balance on your credit card. The minimum payment is more than you make at your job. If you sell the car you can pay it off. Now you can afford to save up for a new car. Britain had to borrow money from the IMF and fought a war in the Falklands. Once you get into debt to the IMF they run your nation into the ground. Britain was lucky to get out. Britain was becoming self sufficient in Oil from the north sea. That was the revenue that allowed the government to operate the economy.

[@andyf4292]

@@FlowDeFlowDrainage if she hadn't been ideologically driven to smash the unions, there wouldnt have been so many unemployed.. the way govenment raises money, is by selling Gilts.

[@kyle8952]

@@FlowDeFlowDrainage A government's budget is nothing like a household budget and a credit card is a nonsense analogy. You don't get to print your own money, collect taxes or issue bonds.

[@diamonman77]

that transition from "i had no privalges at all" to "when thatcher was at oxford" was brilliant XD

[@olliestudio45]

she also grew up in a middle class family and went to grammar school

[@ChartreuseDan]

​@@olliestudio45 She was sort of middling between upper working and lower middle. Her family were basically working class who got raised up by the post-war consensus and the economic growth that came with the increasing distribution of wealth that the unions fought for and then wasted no time in trying to pull the social ladder they'd just climbed up with them. A common mistake people make these days is they hear grammar school and they think tuition but at the time that was only public schools whereas to get into a grammar school you could pass an exam. Not trying to defend her, she was straight-up either the devil or a world-class charlatan the likes of which we rarely ever see, but I think seeing the whole picture clearly is important for everyone's ability to not repeat past mistakes. If people don't think those who come from the working class can forsake their people and common human decency as well as the rich to whom it comes so naturally they might be inclined to trust a swindler just because they've got the right class credentials

[@MaxZadow]

Attending Oxford costs the same as any other University, and was free back when Thatcher was a student. Getting in to Oxford involves passing competitive exams that are open to anyone. While intelligence is a privilege, it is perhaps one we should encourage in our leaders.

[@olliestudio45]

​@@MaxZadow attending Oxford still means privilege and back then most people would be from private schools or grammar schools... probably through an interview, not exams. In any case, if you need to pass an exam or an interview and you attend a private or grammar school, somebody will coach you on how to get in. You would also get a letter of recommendation from an alumnus, who may have been an acquaintance or teacher....

[@hoilst265]

@@olliestudio45 I just watched Harry & Paul's "The Story Of The Twos" and literally every executive character they portray is called "John Oxford-Cambridge" or "Jonny Oxbridge" or "Johnathan Camford-Oxbridge"...

[@TheSuzberry]

BBC radio had to ban “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” because it was requested so often after she died.

[@GB-cs8xu]

I was brought up to hate her,my parents did,so I did. One day I thought "I should do my own research" so I did... and guess what? I ended up hating her 100× more than I previously did. She ruined this country. Everything wrong with this place stems from that witch.

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

@@GB-cs8xu for which reasons?

[@Jagaban123]

DAMN😢

[@GB-cs8xu]

@@ShotsMerkzAll did you watch the video? 😂

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

@@GB-cs8xu is it just the miner stuff? I never hear any other valid points

[@seekingabsolution1907]

​@@ShotsMerkzAllruined employment, killed our industries, dragged us into a pointless war, defended us backed dictators, privatized things that do not function under a market model.

[@beatlemaniac]

I like what Frankie Boyle said after Thatcher passed away. "I think it's the only funeral in history where the 21 gun salute is aimed at the coffin."

[@El_Negro2003]

Splinters!

[@caboosealmighty3735]

"For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person."

[@ChartreuseDan]

I also liked "For 3 Million* you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person." *3 million pounds GBP is how much public money was spent on her funeral incl. associated costs like extra policing during the event

[@TheKalaxis]

Or when he asked if she had to be dead before we bury her 😂

[@hoilst265]

@@TheKalaxis Or the fact that if they'd held her funeral in the north they'd have dug a grave so deep they could hand her over to Satan personally.

[@glenmurie]

It's like the US and UK have been competing to vote against their own best interests the hardest.

[@kenosabi]

There's a portion of each country that's still in it together to this day. The US is still a colony but almost split between the UK (which is the banking epicenter) and in politics state side: Israel. The US is sorta like the arrowhead for both.

[@420haxx]

The problem is that until the advent of alternative media, 95% of people were completely conditioned and brainwashed by the elites and their contol of the MSM..

[@MarkelMathurin]

​@@kenosabiIsrael is the lesser of two evils

[@XepteXDubstep]

remake 2024

[@rudysmith1552]

OK, vote for Blackrock funded Democrats who want to distribute my money to minorities while defending the police to make my community more violent or vote for a kleptocratic will give tax breaks to millionaires but I will be safe, and my money won’t be taxed to fund DEI and I won’t have the privilege of dying to the Russians. Obviously one is in my racial interest and in my survival interest.

[@greenghoul157]

My grandfather was a miner that fought for his job on the picket line and was arrested by Thatcher's government, he was treated like a criminal for being a hard working man just fighting for his family and he never forgave her, I'll never forgive her for what she did to him either

[@promeneuzivotu117]

I tell you these polititians are just tyrants in suits.

[@mumsspaghetti6649]

Sounds like starmer arresting people for being against mass immigration

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

You grandpa was just the average joes trying to put ar of over your head

[@dadoogie]

My dad was a coal miner but he even saw the writing on the wall when we started importing Chinese brown coal. I'd have loved to have worked in the coal mining industry in the UK but it was always going to be destroyed now we're seeing the green push remove coal as power generation completely and even steel becoming electric over gas.

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

@@dadoogie You know what is funny, even if the nuclear power grid was in operation, you would still need the average joes to built it, operate, scrap it and build a new one but for the morons that is a waste of good money

[@matsvanparidon6842]

The irony of radio station getting pressured to censor and not play "the witch is dead" speaks millions

[@seattlebeard]

As someone who witnessed Thatcher & Reagan as a voting adult, I say you nailed it. Experience taught me the rich will always chose self-serving policies, regardless of the harm to others. Falling for their lies will never serve the working class.

[@rogerkeleshian2215]

I think when thatcher warned the world about global warming it was pretty useful to everyone btw she was the first world leader to do so.

[@rogerkeleshian2215]

Also was it really in everyone's interests to keep paying industries that were operating at a loss? If she complied with union demands for more money that would be bankrupting the country by wasting money for something you get no profit from. Oh and home ownership went up as well. I dislike her for what she ordered in Ireland but for her own people she was not a bad leader.

[@blueyeshadow2738]

@@rogerkeleshian2215oh so mass unemployment, privatization and cut to social programs was doing good for her people? What kind of insane bs is that? Wow she said that climate change was a problem that makes her the best ever 🙄

[@rogerkeleshian2215]

@blueyeshadow2738 The nationalization is far worse performance wise than privatization, and like it or not, her warning about climate change is the reason we have an ozone layer today.

[@rogerkeleshian2215]

@blueyeshadow2738 My problems with her are what she did in Ireland, & that she didn't find a way to replace the jobs those failing industries provided for people. The situation was pretty bad, & do you honestly think neil kinnock was gonna solve it? He'll no

[@zachryder3150]

Ask any Scotsman or Irishman at a swimming competition what their favourite stroke is and they'll answer, "Thatcher's".

[@unknownninja4430]

pretty ironic since a scot invented capitalism

[@cado9281]

that goes for the english as well, though admittedly not as much

[@MarkelMathurin]

​@@TalesOfWarmortality, bud.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@MarkelMathurin Whoops, typo! lol

[@heysomeone0310]

Ha! God that is so funny - I love that joke!! How will they say it in Arabic in 10-years??

[@fatalvoices]

I can't believe you went from parkour videos to highly astute political analysis... but I'm here for it!

[@ronlipsius]

Highly astupid you mean.

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

He produces propaganda slop that he overheard from his parents growing up

[@TheReferrer72]

@@ShotsMerkzAll And 400K+ disagree with you.

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

@@TheReferrer72 propaganda is usually relatively popular, billions fall for it

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

@@stephjsinclair Typical lefty lie. “I used to be right wing until I discovered muh critical thinking”

[@dehn6581]

I arrived in the UK in the early 00s, and in my first day here, my soon-to-be father-in-law took us all out to the pub on the way home from the airport so he could stop and explain the evils of Thatcher to me.

[@alibushell6762]

@@JoeeyTheeKangaroo Why don't you go somewhere else xenophone.

[@Tomusiek_]

@@JoeeyTheeKangaroolets see how you would feel if you got told to go to a war torn afghanistan 😊

[@Hildreth1101]

@@JoeeyTheeKangaroo They are home.

[@danielcunningham6727]

​@JoeeyTheeKangaroo your goverment probably made sure he didn't have a home left to go back to....

[@DaveBloke-tg5wv]

He is a prick

[@locus7106]

I think it's diabolical that not once did you display the "Margaret Thatcher's Best Moments" screenshot where its her funeral

[@pvtjohntowle4081]

The "poll tax," officially known as the Community Charge, was a flat-rate tax introduced by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1990 as part of her local government reforms in the U.K. The tax was controversial and deeply unpopular, ultimately contributing to Thatcher’s downfall as Prime Minister. Here’s a closer look at what it was and why it became so contentious: What Was the Poll Tax? The poll tax replaced the rates system, which had been in place for funding local government services. Under the rates system, taxes were based on the value of a property-essentially, homeowners and landlords paid taxes based on their property’s value to fund local services. The Community Charge, however, was a flat tax that required every adult (aged 18 and over) to pay the same amount, regardless of income or property value. The idea was that everyone would contribute equally to local government funding, which was meant to be a more "fair" system of local taxation. Reasons for Introducing the Poll Tax Thatcher’s government argued that the rates system was outdated and unfair, as it placed a disproportionate burden on property owners and varied based on property values. The poll tax was intended to: Make Local Councils Accountable: By making everyone pay, the government hoped people would scrutinize local government spending more carefully, as every adult would have a stake. Spread the Tax Burden: The poll tax aimed to distribute the cost of local services across more people, not just homeowners, thereby supposedly lightening the load on individual households. Why Was the Poll Tax So Controversial? Regressive Nature: Since it was a flat tax, everyone paid the same amount, regardless of their ability to pay. This meant that low-income individuals faced the same tax as wealthy individuals, which hit poorer people much harder as a percentage of their income. Unfairness Perception: Many saw the tax as fundamentally unjust, as it ignored differences in people’s wealth, property values, and ability to pay. Critics argued it shifted the tax burden from wealthier homeowners to renters and low-income individuals. Difficult to Enforce: The tax was difficult to collect and enforce, as many people, particularly in lower-income groups, simply couldn’t afford to pay. In some areas, this led to mass non-compliance and resistance. Mass Protests and Civil Unrest: The poll tax led to widespread protests across the U.K., culminating in the Poll Tax Riots in March 1990, particularly a major riot in London’s Trafalgar Square. The protests reflected the deep anger among citizens over the perceived unfairness of the tax. Consequences of the Poll Tax The poll tax became a major factor in the decline of Thatcher’s popularity and political power. Facing intense backlash from the public and her own party, Thatcher resigned in November 1990. The poll tax was eventually replaced in 1993 by the Council Tax, which took into account property values, but was less severe than the original rates system.

[@COLOURVINYLRECORDSIRELAND90210]

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT

[@Zephur0s]

Straight from Chatgpt 😂

[@tennicksalvarez9079]

How do u know that?​@@Zephur0s

[@magikman481]

@@tennicksalvarez9079 it's formatted exactly like a chatGPT answer would be

[@tatkkyo9911]

​@magikman481 what's chat based on?

[@blackcoffy83]

I'm not British, but my Mancunian told me how he was affected by Thacher closing the mines. His father was unemployed, and then he finally found work, but he had to travel constantly. He was almost never home, and his parents got a divorce. Of course, money was tight, so there were times his family went hungry. Overall, my other British friends celebrated when she died. From what I saw in this video, she wasn't a good leader and only looked out for rich people.

[@melissareohorn7436]

my grandfather was a mining supervisor, he was responsible for making sure the mine and the men were safe. As a supervisor he earned more the average miner so he was able to retire, but i wasnt a comfortable one, i cant imagine what it was like for those who didnt even have that

[@rachelar]

Sounds exactly like my Mancunian dad's experience. Long commute for less money, so bored wife cheated...family split and I personally left UK to avoid Thatcher's poll tax

[@jacksonvega7751]

Everyone should have their very own Mancunian. U lucky cow

[@ronlipsius]

You are not British. That's okay. You are not bright... and you whine. Not okay.

[@yaraelpoof7242]

This video is full of misinformation don’t listen to it

[@RawBerserker]

I'll never forget the sweetness of having "Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead" hit number 1 in the charts after she died, and the cowardice of the BBC for banning the song during that period Rest in piss

[@pippin9466]

Real

[@count69]

What was the point of that decades after she had left power?

[@muhyadeen17]

​@@count69 Coz she's fucked the country up and we are still feeling the effects

[@redhandtheblack]

@@count69 Bro, did you not watch the video? Catharsis.

[@alessandrorona6205]

@@count69 when the concequences of your policies still reak havok decades later, the hate is pretty much deserved.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

One of the many bafflingly st upid thing I heard from her was that she thought firing every mine worker in the country would grow the economy. Obviously it didn't and mutiple regions of the UK still have not recovered to this day. Yes coal was on the way out but transitioning to new technologies was the obvious thing to do not just leave the places in rack and ruin.

[@airlinesecret6725]

LOL, Labour closed more coal pits during the previous Parliament before the Tories came in.

[@MarkelMathurin]

​@@airlinesecret6725the mine jobs isn't the point, it's whether or not those workers had jobs at all that matters

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@airlinesecret6725 as the other person pointed out, it's having a job that matters. Also I'm sure Labour has made mistakes before but nothing as idi otic as this and this is just one example of the many bemusing things she did.

[@cia5649]

well problem was that she closed even mines that was still making money and then not replacing said industry with another one

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@cia5649 exactly

[@chrissennfelder7249]

"You don't grow richer by ordering another checkbook by the bank." That's the core problem of it all. Maybe growing richer all the time is NOT the goal of society. Unregulated capitalism basically boils down to "survival of the fittest". Bad, bad idea.

[@noobvsprominecraftbuild]

Why is survival of the fittest such a bad idea when it has lead to the creation of all life? If the losers never died then we wouldn't be homo sapiens

[@HasanHasan-ig2pz]

Because,MY DEAR BROTHER IN CHRIST,NO SOCIETY THAT RELIES ON "SuRvIvAl oF ThE FiTtEsT" is a fit society

[@jonasb104]

​Biologist explanations and concepts should not just be applied to other fields. What you are saying basically boils down to Social Darwinism (no offense meant, just reflecting on your point). Not everybody can be rich at the same time, so a functioning society has to care for it's less fortunare too, or it's big base breaks away from under it.@@noobvsprominecraftbuild

[@basedindividual7748]

@@jonasb104 Just because we used to live like animals, this idiot still thinks we are living in Jungles and not in advanced civilisation

[@CDexie]

​@@noobvsprominecraftbuildthe history of us as humans has been a constant struggle to overcome our nature, not rely on our baser instincts as good moral pathfinders

[@bobmcbob9856]

My dad, who lived in socialist Yugoslavia, then briefly in the 80s moved to the UK to illegally work while on a tourist visa hoping to eventually get a real job and legit visa, didn’t like it and went back to Yugoslavia, and had also travelled throughout the Eastern bloc and later the western world has an interesting conclusion on the postwar consensus (though I’m sure other folks have come to the same conclusion long before him): when the West had a viable rival economic system to compete with, it had to create good living standards and actually care for its people, to show “capitalism” was doing well, hence why it constructed a golden age of capitalism narrative. However, as the west started to clearly win the cold war, western elites could abandon the common people and go back to just enriching themselves, with the USSR collapsing into a shithole and both the post Soviet states & China abandoning socialism/communism/whatever leftist economics, there was no strong example of a competing economic system to compare against, so there was no need to actually make capitalism look good. Everyone was capitalist so the idea that this is normal, or at least as good as you’re gonna get, was easier to push.

[@Dimitristhe]

Oh my God, this makes so much sense!

[@ЕгорВорончихин-ъ8г]

Well, I would partly agree that one of the reasons why after 70's crisis turn to neoliberalism was quick and so successful was the absence of a viable alternative. But I would disagree that Western governments were just waiting for the USSR to collapse so they could deregulate their economies. The process in which the old "new deal"/Keynesian/golden age labour parties, unions and other pro-worker forces lost to corporations was complex, and one can't say without a doubt that without some aggressive empire with alternative economy structure capitalism can't be regulated and no welfare state is possible. I believe that though postwar balance was quite fragile, it could remain without the fear of the USSR. For example, some European countries like Sweden, Netherlands, and (partly) Germany have quite a lot of social spending and the EU does some effective regulations against corporations (though it has its own fallacies).

[@bobmcbob9856]

@ yeah no I didn’t mean to come off quite that way, more that a major argument against hardcore neoliberalism was removed, making it easier for several western countries to adopt after the USSR stopped being as big of a threat

[@MagusNecronomica]

What a dystopian country. I'm 28 so my whole life has been under Neoloberalism while being taught about the wonders of British resilience and growth after WW2. It's disgusting, we deserve better than this.

[@MrSchmupps]

The UK has never had a higher tax share than it has now. How is that neoliberalism?

[@bargainwebsitedesign]

​@@MrSchmuppswhat has "tax share" got to do with Neoliberalism? Neoliberalism is associated with a set of economic policies, including privatisation, deregulation, globalisation, free trade, monetarism, austerity, and reductions in government spending.

[@MrSchmupps]

@@bargainwebsitedesign So low taxes ain’t neoliberalism?

[@bargainwebsitedesign]

@@MrSchmupps You might think that as a result of shrinking the state and outsourcing government responsibility the tax burden on ordinary people might go down, but in reality that has never been the case. I'll grant you that neoliberalism has meant lower taxes for the 1% but not for the rest of us.

[@yaraelpoof7242]

Britain’s economy didn’t grow after ww2 this guy just spreads lies

[@Mrnovanova]

I don't know if it was the same in Great Britain, but in the states, the people awarding the bailouts sat on the committees of the same banks they were bailing out. That shit was crazy!

[@StoicMarcusAurelius2024]

The Fed has been a private bank since 1913 when it was created, with many of the same banking institutions being its shareholders. And the head of the Fed always comes from one of these financial institutions. A private bank printing national money to bail out its own. It is the intermediary between private wealth and the government. Ever heard of the revolving door mechanism?

[@matttheradartechnician4308]

​@StoicMarcusAurelius2024 Yeah when Liz Cheney is deciding whether or not to go to war when she is on the Board of Raytheon will never not be funny

[@stephenelkington4971]

I'm an old bloke who lived through her horrendous reign but never let it be forgotten that the Labour Party was to blame for her government's electoral success. Far more interested in conducting their own civil war than constituting a coherent and credible alternative government.

[@OverFjell]

Sounds suspiciously like the 2019 labour party

[@danielboard9510]

The problem during that era in history is that there was no love for social idea's. It was just an opposition to communism, which came to provide a lot of peoples idea of politics. The over-arching fight against communism, came to leave us in the hands of corporate, money chasing business. Which is fine, but if you allow corporations to take money out of the economy, you have to rely on them to put it back. But it just does not happen. And unfortunately never will.

[@Billy_Rizzle]

The UK has been voting the least incompetent and least corrupt party into power for too long. Hopefully, one day we will have the opportunity to vote a party with decent and effective policies.

[@OverFjell]

@@Billy_Rizzle Unfortunately with our two party system it's pretty much a pipe dream to have real representation.

[@Soul_of_a_Robot]

It was the SNP who put Thatcher in. They held a vote of no confidence against labour that triggered the GE

[@gingerkid1048]

I have the distinct memory of my Irish Catholic great grandmother who attended mass 3x a day some days always calling Thatcher a c*nt. I imagine she said worse in Irish.

[@andromidius]

I will note that Fascism didn't rise in Germany or Italy via revolution - they were welcomed into power by the establishment. Why? Because Socialism and Communism were too popular with the common people for the rich to bare.

[@ThePainkiller9995]

the communists literally supported the nazis lol

[@heavyartillery-qm5hu]

USSR is one of the biggest tragedies ever. Of course other governments would try to avoid it.

[@matttheradartechnician4308]

Fascism did lead to some of the fastest and greatest economic booms in world history. 1920s Germany and 1930s doesn't even look like the same country. You had female college professors selling themselves as prostitutes to getting out of the great depression 5 years before the US. Fascism is probably of the most efficient systems in the world. The only issue is that there are no checks and balances. That is the main issue with Autocracy vs Bureaucracy.

[@billykash491]

Thatcher and Reagan were pretty much loved by both the british and america upper elites.

[@rogerogrant]

And we’re still paying for it on both sides of the Atlantic. We in The States may just go full Plutocracy next week. 😮

[@vanbeet5105]

Hmmm..i wonder why?

[@Dirt_McGirt_Osirus]

If you’re ever wondering about the root of most of today’s problems, if you look into it it almost always goes back to policies enacted by Reagan and Thatcher. They have done inconceivable damage to the stability of both of our nations.

[@Jonas-Seiler]

@@Dirt_McGirt_Osirus Bro, people the world over are suffering from that shit

[@peterconnor94]

Cos of the massive tax cuts for them.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

One thing that is not mentioned of her many failures and damage she did. Is that she didn't set up a sovereign wealth fund for our oil, we have pumped out a similar amount to Norway and they have a sovereign wealth fund worth 1.7 trillion. But she thought that our oil should be nears as makes no difference given away to private multinationals.

[@CHRISTIEMALRYLIBRARY]

was just typing the same thing, criminal

[@ronlipsius]

Can’t get enough of that welfare, can you?

[@aidanc9396]

@@ronlipsius "Its literally welfare to not give away precious resources for almost free"

[@cia5649]

the amount of investment they could have used that oil money for too

[@aries6776]

@@ronlipsius Depends on whose welfare we are talking about. Personally, I'd prefer the welfare of the British people to be a priority over the welfare of some private companies. Strange idea I know.

[@j_h_gordy]

Thatcher: “the government can only get money by taking your money” Also Thatcher: “we must sell every profit making asset to private enterprise”

[@bisque6448]

This went right over your head

[@armaan6101]

​@@bisque6448 💀

[@gilbertmoyes2918]

Oh, and after selling these profitable assets off to Foreign Private companies. Let's also give them tax exemptions.

[@billieraephoto]

This has given me a much better understanding as to why my uncle loves his "at least thatchers still dead" t-shirt I've seen on many family occasion

[@StoicMarcusAurelius2024]

I'm not a UK nor US citizen, but despised her and Reagan 20 years ago already when I latched onto what these neoliberalists were up to since the 1980s. The parallels between timing and market crashes in these countries are unsurprising, only for neoliberalism to be exported across the world, enforced by military action, coups, and corporate/government collusion and greed. The latest neoliberalist crisis in the UK is the Thames Water, a utility handed to the private sector with a few billion pounds too. And now the LP is clueless (only because it may harm neoliberalist donors) about how to fix this mess - toying with the idea of assuming temporary control until Thames Water can get its head above the expensive, unhealthy water, and then hand it back to these asset-stripping, price-increasing, self-rewarding, debt-creating vultures. Oh,... and I equally despise Friedman's permanent arrogant grin.

[@RictusHolloweye]

One aspect of neo-liberalism that I seldom see examined is the fact that wherever government services withdraw, private corporations take over. You go from a service owned by the people with a priority of serving the people to a service owned by one of more individuals with a priority of further enriching those individuals. For all the pompous dismissal of socialists "spending other people's money" it turned out that neo-liberalism cost those other people a whole lot more.

[@hoilst265]

I live in regional Australia, and what this basically means is that companies prioritise service in an area about twenty kilometres from a capital city centre and then forget everywhere else. Oh, the Free Market says its inefficient to put services out there - now, you wouldn't want to be goin' against the Free Market, would you, eh?

[@RictusHolloweye]

@@hoilst265 - In fact it was Rudd's idea of creating a fibre network that induced me to considering giving a vote to Labor. I don't care what party does it, but whoever provides the best service, the best care to the average Aussie is who gets my vote. I don't care which party does it.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

@@RictusHolloweye Exactly, and it pleases me to see two other Australians that realize this: The most important thing is how much WE are getting back from our Government. Countries that have high spending on their citizenry just... do better... then those that don't! It makes sense too, for healthy and educated citizens are more productive then broken serfs.

[@rhidiandavies1991]

17:05 - lmao she's describing paying for a service, where did she think the private sector got its money from, magic? It's the same bizzarre logic that gives you "I don't want to pay tax to fund a nationalised not-for-profit healthcare service, I want to pay even more money for a for-profit privatised healthcare service, because socialism."

[@kamikazilucas]

the problem with new new labour is they dont want a wealth tax or any corporation tax increases, they dont want to make water or electicity or anything public again, so they are just doing the same shit while saying they arent

[@Uncle_Tijikun]

The problem with the new labour is that they're not a left wing party anymore. They're labour just in name, but at the end of the day they're just a bunch of ultra wealthy bastards just like the Democrats in the US. We need a new, grassroots left wing movement to rise

[@JamieFurlong]

When you say "New Labour", are you referring to the current government?

[@kamikazilucas]

@@JamieFurlong new new labour is the current

[@JamieFurlong]

@@kamikazilucas no, it's not. New Labour was Blair and Brown, a silly rebranding ploy that had Thatcher's backing. I'm picking up on your comment because you stated "they don't want wealth tax or any corporation tax" on the day of the budget when they announced exactly those things. VAT on private schools and inheritance tax increases for the super rich. Nom dom taxes, minimum wage increases... Sure, renationalising public services would be great too, but it's one of the most social-leaning budgets we've seen in literally decades (and I'm no Starmer fan).

[@andyf4292]

those utilities have run up massive debts, while still paying massive dividends and CEO wages.. to nationalize them, we would need to do something about those debts

[@JarottM]

THANK YOU! As an American Ive been saying this for years when people keep saying we need to privatize everything. Thats why our news/media , schooling, student loan systems, and Health care system in the States SUCKS!

[@AugustusOmega]

when you privatize, the profit motive guarantees inferior standards

[@michakonieczko6875]

If it was public it would suck even more

[@bernieburrows3731]

God help you now with a Trump presidency.

[@her-em-akhet]

​@@michakonieczko6875 literally how

[@michakonieczko6875]

@@her-em-akhet public enterprises don't have to compete with other enterprises in order to survive at the market, which leads to poor cost optimization. Also public service employees don't care about doing their work properly as much as those hired in private buisnesses do.

[@si3427]

I’m from Sheffield but just on the border of Barnsley only about 20 minutes from orgreave my grandfather was a miner. I work with ex miners there sons and grandsons and the cheers that went through the factory when it was announced was a thing of beauty. Fucking hatful woman.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

She was economically illiterate and her policies damaged the country so much that entire regions of the nation have still not recovered economically to this day. Her economic ideology is still the dominant force in Westminster and the media even though it has failed time and time again.

[@Soul_of_a_Robot]

She wasn't economically illiterate, she did precisely what she set out to do

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@Jimmy_Cream which was economically illiterate. She thought firing every miner in the country would grow the economy, and mutiple regions of the UK have still not recovered economically to this day from that frankly bafflingly stup idity. That is just one example, I could go on. Like selling off water which is a natural monopoly, this beyond basic economics and she didn't even know that.

[@oneiyyar]

Unfortunately for us, it is still the dominant force because it did not fail. It made the people it was meant to make incredibly rich & carries on doing so

[@Giuseppe-21489]

an example of an area that is still recovering is Liverpool as she drained the city of everything it had, she shut down the docks, she never gave the city any investments and put the city into managed decline for years

[@wentoneisendon6502]

Is this what your taxi driver dad told you?

[@mistyhaney5565]

At least the U.K. has the sense to despise Thatcher in retrospect, here in the U.S. Reagan is still held up as some kind of demigod. Imagine being eighteen when Reagan was running for his second term, and trying to convince anyone that Reagan was doing real damage to the country, it was quite a depressing entrance into our "democracy".

[@Doddster1983]

I don't! She is the reason our rivers and sea are laden with sewage, diminished our inability to self sustain energy and steel, oh and the chief reason our rail and public transport system is screwed.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The reason, we have such a shortage of housing, why we don't have sovereign wealth fund like Norway. Destruction of manufacturing and no replacement for those jobs. Why Britiain doesn't have much of computer base, because she cut it from schools. The 2008 recession caused by her governments deregulation of the banks. The austerity and brexit that followed. Etc. Etc.

[@raven-sf3di]

​@@Alex-cw3rz yet labour didn't fix any of that . Having British owned companies doesn't mean they are going to be well run . And boy are UK businesses run poorly. They just cover up how poorly they are run with higher taxes

[@Doddster1983]

@@raven-sf3di Ok Mr partisan! Video is about Maggie Thatcher not the Labour Party....This video is NOTHING about the labour party, so why mention them?

[@shaunmiller7370]

Maggie Thatcher got lucky twice. Falklands war was one, North Sea oil was the other, and where did that money go on? It got squandered, and went to the rich.

[@darthwiizius]

I hate Maggies Thatch because I was born in 1971. For most folk Maggie equals a lowering in living standards, cuts. Now mum didn't go out to work to lift the family, now she went to work to keep the family afloat. Sorry if that sounds out of date, it is. But the simple truth is this: Since Thatcher-Reagan we've gone from one full time income can raise your family to 2 full time incomes, then multiple jobs and now even multiple jobs by multiple adults are struggling to make ends meet.

[@Matthewsaaan]

Hey Jimmy, never apologise for talking about the post-war consensus.

[@custardstuff5178]

The irony of Starmer taking down her picture is that he is continuing her legacy and she would be proud of him.

[@andrewrice9362]

Actually the budget was actually pretty decent. Its not perfect but its looking to investment and it is taxing things like capital gains, inheritence, second homes. Hopedully it will go towards rebalancing the economy and he is taking about re nationalising rail over time. The OBR forecast is to have a surplus by 2027-28 which we havent in a longtime.

[@custardstuff5178]

@andrewrice9362 get out of here with your "well actually". He can burble on about renationalising all he likes, but like his "10 pledges" it's all talk, the budget was tiny band aid on a gaping wound and he is still a neoliberal to his bones.

[@durshurrikun150]

@@andrewrice9362 Keep believing him. Don't cry when the liar turns out to be a liar.

[@James_36]

@@andrewrice9362 there is no growth in the budget lol... you are delusional

[@andrewrice9362]

@@James_36🙄

[@Earlynyancat]

Thanks so much for a non ai thumbnail 🙏.

[@jotttn]

😂😂

[@Hugh_Bleffner]

privatise profits, socialise losses. The tory economic plan

[@TheChees1996]

one thing that keeps coming up when I watch your new videos. 'those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat again'

[@HarryNottings]

I get why rich people like her I'll never get why there's a portion of poor people who like her Some people will cheer on any inequality even if they're on the recieving end for some reason

[@thomasbootham2707]

My nana was a nurse during her premiership and during that time nurses got a massive pay rise according to her so to this day she says she loved thatcher

[@Alex-cw3rz]

​@@thomasbootham2707 but they didn't, in fact the NHS was on it's knees, as always happens under a tory government.

[@thomasbootham2707]

@ not according to her she tells me the nhs was in a far better state during the thatcher years than it is now

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@thomasbootham2707 I mean in 2024 yes it was better as she had less time to ruin it than the current tories, compared to 2009, no. In 2009 the NHS was considered the best healthcare service on the planet for outcomes. It was not in 1988

[@thomasbootham2707]

@ the tories ruined the nhs in a matter a couple of years thatcher was in power for a very long time if she really wanted to ruin it she had all the time and power to do so and she didn’t I’m not saying she likes the nhs I doubt she did but she had every opportunity to destroy the nhs and she didn’t

[@bxl2012]

It's really great that you are applying the narrating skills that you have acquired on explaining our society to people that usually wouldn't try understanding the big lines. I am happy about this new direction of your exploration.

[@SAF-S2E]

I was in college when she died, I remember my politics teacher and history teacher dancing in the corridor

[@nobbyfirefly57]

This needs to be taught in history classes in schools worldwide to ensure these mistakes are never repeated. People will repeat them if they forget.

[@beckyharris8692]

Dude you’ve become my favorite thing on KZbin. Another brilliant video

[@edmundprice5276]

She was merciless and heavy handed. She wouldn't be so objectionable if she weren't so, uncompromising and needlessly cruel.

[@patmann9363]

That one👍🏾

[@conorkelly947]

yeah bad ppl would be OK if they didn't do bad things, what's your point?

[@fralanasko2900]

Yeah totally... she would have been less hated if she wasn't such a horrible sociopath.

[@edmundprice5276]

@@conorkelly947 I would argue the things that she did whilst in office could have been done with a kinder and more gentle hand. Instead of mass declining the north and Welsh mining towns, she could have pursued a programme of economic redevelopment. The northerners and Welsh would have been grateful for better and less dangerous work, but instead, She shut the coal mines and left nothing in their place. She could have let people buy their homes, at market value and used the money to purchase and construct new homes for social housing. She seems to have forgotten that businesses rely upon customers in the consumer economy, and that if the average consumer cannot afford everyday products, the businesses will be less profitable. She favoured business at the expense of business and the consumer. She also pursued her goals, often for no practical purpose and for purely ideological reasons, not because it was effective. She cast off the old Tory values of noblesse oblige and responsibility to society established by Disraeli, in favour of a philosophy of let them eat cake.

[@odemaj8605]

Maggie,Reagan and co,promoted this policy to satisfy the very rich,by cutting down tax, deregulation of private sector and promoting privatisation.

[@The_king567]

Good

[@comradepivot4570]

Good

[@marktaylor6491]

Hell hath no fury like frustrated entitlement. Which is what she represented. The frustrated entitlements of the English Middle and Upper Classes. It is vital to remember that these people never got a humility check during the 1940's. Not like their brethren on the continent. They still believed they were 'better' than the lower orders. The Feudal mindset remained. Which is why they accepted Attlee's reforms through gritted teeth. Why it was only the fear of Communist insurrection that held them in check. Why by the early 1970's they were sick of it all. Sick of having to sharing the same table as the lower orders. Which is what Thatcher represented. An English Middle Class that wanted to go back to how it was. That wanted to crush the power of the organised working classes. Which is what they got. But only at the cost of this country's future.

[@hoilst265]

Also, there was the whole "there's no zealot like a convert" sort of mentality: she was firmly middle class, but spent her years at uni surrounded by the sorts of six-fingered, cosanguinated toffs from the upper classes, and wanted to prove she could run with them, and be even more hardline conservative.

[@Chewy427]

Entitlement to what? Not other people's money, that would be taxation.

[@hoilst265]

@@Chewy427 And yet who paid her salary?

[@Chewy427]

@@hoilst265 she's entitled because she got paid by the government even though she was against government spending? yeah ok

[@hoilst265]

@@Chewy427 "But...but...GUBMINT BAD! GUBMINT SPEND MONEY BAD!" - every smooth-brained tosser.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

When I was in high school, Laissez-faire Crapitalism was described to us as _"Well, yes, of course it was bad... but look at how good it was, we needed it or we'd never have gotten those giant corporations that inspired laws against monopolies because of all the damage they did. Those bad things were good."_

[@victormirandakoepke8352]

It's good we loosened up the laws on who can own a tank, otherwise the March Tank Massacre wouldn't have happened and we wouldn't know to not allow tanks in children's hospitals!

[@gemmagreene362]

You talk about the Post War Consensus all you like, Love! People need to know about the fact that there are different way to do things. We keep being told that the way things are run now is the only way.

[@ronlipsius]

Your point, madam?

[@gemmagreene362]

@@ronlipsius That there are ways of governance, economic models and systems of thought that can work other than what is commonly known as “late (or end) stage capitalism”. I’m not saying that I personally know which is best, just that what we have now is not as inevitable as we are constantly told it is.

[@zlrobbo9643]

Never forget that "Ding Dong the witch is dead" charted when she died

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

Shows how revolting the left are

[@dambust232]

That was disrespectful, imaging if that was a family member and someone sang that to you as your mourned? I've no love for her either but that was low for anyone with a shred of honour.

[@zlrobbo9643]

Womp womp

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

@@zlrobbo9643 most empathetic leftist

[@andrewcoulson2375]

​@@dambust232some people don't deserve respect 🤷‍♂️

[@Adam-pk2te]

RE Railways Thatcher actually didn't want to privatize BR she thought it was a natural monopoly just shows how her ideology took on a life of itself

[@ucey-mi2wr]

and then john major went on and actually privatised national rail 🤣

[@meshjss9833]

You can complain about a lot of Thatcher’s policies, but the UK of the 1970s was dying. Failing, state-run industries were killing productivity and Britain was falling behind much of the West. You can feel sorry for coal miners who lost their jobs, but you also have to recognize that those jobs existed by taxpayers propping up uncompetitive industries. Let’s not pretend pre-Thatcher Britain was some worker’s paradise.

[@andrewkillen5879]

Jimmy, my son and I have been watching your videos from the Parcour times through the overview of X-sports. I'm really impressed with who you have become. Checked a handful of the stuff you've made in the last year and its really excellent work. Quite incredible in its research and presentation, along with your humble nature shining through. You are on track to become one of *the* voices in the UK and beyond, making documentaries of absolute worth. Thanks fella, especially as I know its also shaping the mind of my 13 year old, just as DanTDM did for his 8 year old mind.

[@Twenty4hourPharmacy]

first thing im doing when i get to hell....WHERE IS THATCHER

[@duncanglen3452]

😂😂❤

[@Kelyori]

well unfortunatly she is having tea and crumpets with Lucifoo at the moment

[@74jparralel38]

You’re not deep enough in hell

[@mebrithiel]

*Doom music starts playing*

[@Blandalorian]

She’ll be sat on the big throne next to the red lad with horns on his head.

[@coolmanoscar2030]

Make a video about the witch on Halloween. I see what you did there Jimmy 😂

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

Thatcher is the greatest leader behind Churchill

[@duppyman]

​@@ShotsMerkzAllBoth were voted out or resigned in disgrace so not sure that was true even at the time

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

@@duppyman Many decades later they’re still often included in “Greatest Prime Minister” and even Greatest Briton lists.

[@ourkidof91]

@@ShotsMerkzAlland who is writing those lists?

[@Rleatfitness]

so many of our modern problems have their roots in her decisions, will never understand why she closed down industries that created so many jobs

[@scottwallace5239]

I'll tell you why, because the industries weren't making shareholders enough money and in a neoliberalism 1 shareholder profit > 1000 people in work Selling off,closing and just importing was far cheaper and made a few board members more money, which looks good on the GDP, so fuck the poor, money to be made 💰💰💰🤑🤑🤑

[@4Meskerem]

her and Reagan lineup from hell

[@MarkGovern]

She closed down industries that made no money. It was government subsidies that was supporting these failed industries. It had to stop.

[@JSmith19858]

You forget the key component of Thatcher being able to keep inflation low, and that was increasing and maintaining an overvalued £. This killed British exports, which British manufacturing relied on to survive, and why so many manufacturing companies went from being in the black to buried overnight. She was a less competent Liz Truss. A correctly valued £ would have seen manufacturing survive at the cost of higher inflation than under the previous Labour government, which would have exposed her incompetence. Instead she blamed these firms for their failure. Even now manufacturing accounts for half of exports from only 9% of the workforce. Britian would have been in a far stronger position with Callaghan in charge instead of her

[@realsanmer]

Learning about Neoliberalism as Argentina is currently ran by a neoliberal/libertarian psycho made me realize that time is just a flat fucking circle.

[@tombroad1467]

Hits so different after your last video. Keep it up bro!

[@stevedavy2878]

Im old enough to have witnessed the damage she did to the UK at the time. She was a malignant narcissist. It wasnt her cruelty and hardness that created so much hate for her, as a her fake two faced act, her pretence at being a caring, thoughtful person. She was vile, so was her husband, and her son. Carol Thatcher her daughter was the only decent one amongst them.

[@punklesam94]

As someone’s who lived through the economic crash of 2008, Brex-‘Shit’ and (of course) the pandemic. I didn’t know much about Thatcher until I started listening to punk rock, especially the 80s bands that were calling out her corrupted BS policy that left so many into poverty. Now when I come to think of it, there’s no wonder why we’re feeling the effects of Thatcherism to this day, as we all look back at her own grave in sheer dispair…

[@pippin9466]

Brexshit 💀

[@AamuAurora]

I know it's random but your comment reminded me of a SNL sketch about a legendary fictional British punk musician who was in love with Margaret Thatcher. One of his songs was "Hey, Maggie Thatcher you're alright. Thanks to you I sleep at night" which was the ultimate blow to the career of his band 😂

[@punklesam94]

@@AamuAurora Haha, do you remember which show this was from? I’ve got the feeling it’s the Young Ones but I could be dead wrong 😆

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

I lived in London under Thatcher's government. She was terrible for intellectual freedom, the NHS, and British Telecom. What she did to Council Housing and job prospects is unforgivable. I remember the pseudo- _Gone with the Wind_ poster with her and Ronald Reagan and the tagline: "She promised to follow him to the end of the Earth; he promised to arrange it." That sums up the Thatcher era.

[@RERM001]

As my wonderful history teacher once said: "In communism the state accumulates all wealth and everyone else is poor, in liberalism the rich own the wealth and everyone else is poor".

[@CrazyMama75]

I had hoped we'd see some positive changes at the lower end of the UK totem pole, especially the most vulnerable such as the disabled and unemployed, but instead we've gotten more rhetoric of how the unemployed and disabled are burdens and not valued when compared to working people. More point the finger at the poorest saying "it's their fault" while they make money for themselves and their friends right infront of us

[@lewisclark1122]

That bloody thatcher ruined my life. Cost me a fortune to have that roof redone....

[@zeberzeleniev]

That's why I hired an Argentine roofer to replace mine with ceramic tiles instead, much cheaper in the long run

[@FFM0594]

Rust in pieces, Iron Lady.

[@promeneuzivotu117]

She can lay right along with the little Georgian man of steel lol.

[@OakTree-LandScapeOnFacBook]

@@FFM0594 do you think you can lead the country better? well do it.

[@ucey-mi2wr]

​@@OakTree-LandScapeOnFacBook I genuienly belive I could do a better job than thatcher did.

[@OakTree-LandScapeOnFacBook]

@ let me know when you’ve done that.

[@OakTree-LandScapeOnFacBook]

@ what would you of done differently?

[@hugobishton4256]

Britain's industrial competitiveness had been impaired in the 1970s by high inflation, offset by a lower exchange rate. Even with hindsight now where we can clearly see that the same thing would have happened due to countries shifting productions of fossil fuels and products to the east where it is cheaper we somehow pretend if she hadn't done what she did we could have stuck in our ways. We would have ended up growing out of being an industrial country way too late and lacked competitiveness.

[@yaraelpoof7242]

Finally some intelligence in this comment section

[@richardmunoz4771]

Aren't they rich enough? I don't get why they have to squeeze the poor so hard. It's just illogical

[@MrCarlnaylor]

As Karl Marx put it, Capitalism is 'accumulation for accumulation's sake'

[@Kraniumbrud]

she might not be the reason it rains all the time.. but if she had the power, she would have made it rain more!

[@epipen22]

Ronald Reagan of Britain

[@Frenchonionsoupp]

BAHAHA youre so delusional reagan was a good president unlike her

[@williamritchie4582]

She did win three elections. Whatever valid criticisms to be made of Thatcherism it clearly had substantial public support.

[@peterllwlln]

The working class loved her

[@olliestudio45]

according to ipsos: On average during Mrs Thatcher’s premiership, 40% of the public were satisfied with the way she was doing her job while 54% were dissatisfied. But at the peak of her popularity (in June 1982, after the recapture of the Falklands), 59% were satisfied with her performance, while her rating fell as low as 20% satisfied (in March 1990, the month in which there were riots in London against the introduction of the “poll tax”). Average satisfaction with the way her government was running the country was 32%, compared to an average 59% who were dissatisfied. The low points were 16% satisfied in March 1981 and again in March 1990.

[@btctroy4217]

All you are doing here is making a valid case against democracy.

[@williamritchie4582]

The question has to be asked why Labour presented no credible alternative. Rightly or wrongly many ordinary people backed her.

[@ucey-mi2wr]

@@peterllwlln they were reading newspapers backing tory propoganda they had no way of knowing how bad others had it.

[@Infernus25]

This video needs to be clipped up and spread over all the short form content channels so the youth of today can learn from the mistakes of the past.

[@hellokittysays6333]

Yeah, Hershey's is disgusting. It's not even chocolate.

[@Jh9801]

Had a carpet salesman who was measuring my house last week randomly start lovingly talking about Thatcher. It was totally bizarre. Boomers obsession with her is quite something

[@count69]

Because they remember the 70s.

[@marktaylor6491]

@@count69 Because they think they remember the 1970's. The Generation need to have their voting rights removed asap.

[@samw363]

My working class father taught me in great detail how much she fucked over the working class.

[@count69]

@@samw363 Well my working class father was able to buy his own home in the 80s.

[@samw363]

@count69 as was mine, what's your point ? My point was every working class human in this country would've done better. Thatcher promoted individualism, "im doing great so fuck the lesser" the same point I think you're trying to make now.....as if to prove the point of all of thatchers critics. So thank you, for being a living example of my point, appreciated.

[@Rory20uk]

Her main flaw was not understanding the greed in others. Given where we are, what is required is Regulation of industries and if companies fail to meet them proportional penalties.

[@ronlipsius]

Agreed.

[@Harryhas26]

Unfortunately all of those companies are long off the lead. There's no getting them back under control now.

[@Rory20uk]

@@Harryhas26 it would require considerable determination and fortitude to do so - and there's no evidence of any in Parliament. The only hope is that they initially were mainly Private companies. Probably shared ownership of some type would try to improve the inefficiency of State enterprises whilst limiting the short term, profit driven obsession of the private sector - delivering water is boring.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Something that isn't mentioned much but her governments deregulation of banks caused the 2008 recession in the UK.

[@nobbyfirefly57]

17:10 well yes, that’s how taxpayer money works. That’s what our taxes are for, to fund the government.

[@joshkelly5763]

Man your videos are such high quality - I feel like I learn so much more about British history from your videos than I ever did at school haha

[@robinhazell6019]

Good video. But , you mentioned Frederik Hayek and his economic ideas, but Hayek was only the Godfather of those ideas. And Hayek had said that he was sympathetic to the Nazis. They actually came to fruition by Milton Freidman and his CHICAGO SCHOOL of economics. Chile was the first country where it was put into practice with help from the USA and Britain to overthrow the elected left wing ( NOT COMMUNIST )Government. It would have been a much better video if you had mentioned this. Also, before the Falklands War, Thatcher was not looking that secure. The Falklands War saved her and gave her even more power to do what she wanted.

[@Johnny5eyes]

Good stiff as usual however the economy was basically fucked at the time Thatcher was elected, mainly as you say because of the lingering effects of the oil crisis a few years earlier. The mood in the country was definitely that we needed to try something 'new' no matter how misguided that turned out to be.

[@Johnny5eyes]

Stuff not 'stiff' obviously. Sodding fat fingers.

[@adrianevans263]

I hate to say it but Corbyn was the only one who could have took Labour back to its roots and give it the post war consensus mindset. No wonder the media spent years roasting his sweaters 😂

[@k0sh3n0straslayer]

Thatcher probably stole Satan's throne in Hell by now, 2000AD the magazine shown her in a comic strip ruling over Hell afte dethroning Satan more evil than Satan himself.

[@brentsunlay8232]

Jimmy is by far one of the best creators on KZbin, and one he's properly discovered he is gonna blow up big time!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@mebrithiel]

What I'd like us to coin in the future is "The Post Tory Consensus" 🤞

[@evonne_o]

It already started....

[@ronlipsius]

And a worthless coin too.

[@gunproofgrandad]

I think Maggie was a terrible person and I’m old enough to remember when she took our milk off is at school. The amount of young people I hear scathing about her. Some were only born in the 2000’s ffs lol I just don’t get why people dedicate so much time to hating her. She’s long dead and imo Tony Blair and Keir Starmer have done far more harm in my life time

[@martynarmstrong4730]

Great video, although voluntarily agreeing to look at Thatcher for +3o minutes isn't an easy undertaking. Unfortunately, I suspect the removal of her portrait from no#10 was performative - Starmer is very much a Thatcherite, and many of those "advising" him are from the New Labour cabal. More of an update of the guard rather than a change of it.

[@ronlipsius]

How odd - I think she was sexy and eminently fuckable. The rest of your comment smacks of lazy, ignorant gibberish.

[@Lord_of_Dread]

Man, after watching so many videos about the historical evils of american conservatism and being disappointed that I know more about American political history than our own, I am glad as fuck to have found your channel. Top quality mate, earned my subscription! It's funny how all the things I've been complaining about for years all root back to one person.

[@officialmonarchmusic]

I'm an American hearing her speak for the first time, why tf does she sound like a horror movie villain? 😭