Heseltine: A Life in the Political Jungle part 1

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  • After Michael Heseltine announced his retirement from the House of Commons and to tie in with the publication of his memoirs 'Life in the Jungle' in September 2000, LWT made a two part documentary telling his story. Produced by Alexander Gardiner and presented by Jonathan Dimbleby (who were both involved in LWT's Sunday political talk programme).
    Note that I had fairly poor TV reception at this point so the picture gets a bit choppy. We hope this doesn't spoil your enjoyment of the programme. Original transmission was 10 September 2000.
    Part 2 is here: • Heseltine: A Life in t...

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  • @dennisbenn2065
    @dennisbenn2065 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    You've got a fantastic range of content, thanks for putting it all up. Looking forward to part 2 of this.

  • @That_Random_Bloke
    @That_Random_Bloke 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is great, thanks for uploading! Please upload part 2

  • @zacbarness9520
    @zacbarness9520 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great upload David! Immensely grateful if you could upload Part 2 too

  • @splinterbyrd
    @splinterbyrd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    A client of mine says he sat next to Heseltine at dinner once and found Hezza to be a really boring man whose sole topic of conversation was...Michael Heseltine

    • @BossySwan
      @BossySwan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sounds about right

  • @zulkiflijamil4033
    @zulkiflijamil4033 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    May 1979 the Tory is in office in power once again. Michael Heseltine really demonstrated his rare courage to convince the convention to give attention to the inner cities in particular Liverpool. And Heseltine - a life in the political jungle is excellent documentary. Thanks a lot for uploading this one. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

  • @christopherwrees
    @christopherwrees 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can't wait for part two.

    • @alt-facts8832
      @alt-facts8832 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      christopherwrees Me too. Normally don't have a problem finding continuous parts for documentaries but this appears to be the exception.

  • @kaymumby46
    @kaymumby46 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the upload. Subtitles too 😍 This is like a reminiscence therapy for me! I’m intrigued by his “recollection” of Thatcher complaining about council house tenants leaving the underfloor heating on all day. Did council houses have underfloor heating? I seem to remember there was a brief period when new build council houses were heated by a community boiler and were complaining because they couldn’t turn the heating off in hot weather?

  • @TelexToTexel
    @TelexToTexel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Some excellent advice by Michael Heseltine: "You can survive eggs, but the bricks gets nasty"
    I thought Maggie Thatcher wasn't into red tape, yet she wanted Westland to be buried in red tape: "[Westland] should have been delt with by the economic committee of the cabinet, or the relevant sub-committee of that."
    I mean, if she wanted to get rid of red tape, why was there a sub-committee of the economic cabinet?

  • @TomSanderson100
    @TomSanderson100 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Do you have Part 2? Many thanks

  • @DlaudDlaud
    @DlaudDlaud 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What happened to part 2

  • @lkmichaelnattilin7723
    @lkmichaelnattilin7723 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    worth a watch .
    perhaps ANDY J S Might have part two

  • @whatamalike
    @whatamalike 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic documentary series! I wonder though; was this only shown in the London/LWT area? Or was it networked on the whole of ITV?
    It seems like the kind of thing the network would inexcusably reject at the time despite being relevant on a national level.

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was networked - but at 10:45 PM on a Sunday so not exactly prime time.

    • @whatamalike
      @whatamalike 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DBIVUK yeah I didn't exactly expect it to be shown at prime time haha. But it's good to hear it was networked.

  • @ricdavid7476
    @ricdavid7476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i always thought he was a posh bloke who came from a monied background but he was lower middle class with aspirations of becoming upper middle class.

  • @thejigantics2641
    @thejigantics2641 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    So much hairspray so little humility

    • @stephenelkington4971
      @stephenelkington4971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Politicians are not noted for their humility. I'm no Tory but Hestletine's an intelligent and perceptive politician. He once said 'Labour will win power when it wants to'. When Labour elected Blair showed it wanted it wanted power - electing Corbyn was a sure sign it didn't want power. As a social democratic member of the Labour Party I hope and believe that the election of Keir Starmer as leader indicates that we are serious about wanting power again.
      Hestletine couldn't stand Thatcher - neither could I - that alone endears him to me.

    • @stephenelkington4971
      @stephenelkington4971 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anti-semtic bullshit. The election result that your lot delivered for Labour last time should have ensured a lifetime of silence - but your verbosity is seemingly as eternal as your utter stupidity.

    • @jazzhands7771
      @jazzhands7771 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stephenelkington4971 you talk some shite wee lad.

    • @johnjones6601
      @johnjones6601 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hahaha 😅

    • @mariavieira9600
      @mariavieira9600 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@stephenelkington4971I too love him. Did you know that he is the only Tory welcome in Liverpool. The only one that voted along side Labour in favour was f the race relations act. We went a long way since. However Boris Johnson and his team managed to make us regresse around it.

  • @borderlord
    @borderlord 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Part 2?!?!

  • @albacan
    @albacan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hessie and Maggie were enemies and it was fun to watch

  • @123brownjames
    @123brownjames 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not bad for a lad from Swansea

  • @pikeywyatt
    @pikeywyatt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i love brit politics then and now.

  • @markjones4704
    @markjones4704 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    tarzan they called him when he was defense minister

  • @liamb8644
    @liamb8644 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 3:00 in, he notably did all those things....except for prime minister! At least he became deputy though...

  • @jazzhands7771
    @jazzhands7771 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where's part 2

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  ปีที่แล้ว

      Here th-cam.com/video/k5Vs3qnJgiA/w-d-xo.html

  • @peter9180
    @peter9180 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Terrible sound recording

  • @emizerri
    @emizerri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Draco Malfoy

  • @calengr1
    @calengr1 ปีที่แล้ว

    14:05 MT assessment

  • @pippipster6767
    @pippipster6767 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thumbnail looks like start of SS interrogation.

  • @lamontcranston4436
    @lamontcranston4436 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A breathtakingly arrogant individual, certainly not even close to Thatcher

    • @briandelaney9710
      @briandelaney9710 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Lamont Cranston Thatcher was extremely arrogant and he’s right , she didn’t listen

    • @willoke8
      @willoke8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He was Anti Thatcher

  • @alexodonnell6191
    @alexodonnell6191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Arguably the greatest leader Britain never had...a touch of the Brian Cloughs perhaps ....

    • @aaropajari7058
      @aaropajari7058 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Excellent connection.

  • @tomgibson6801
    @tomgibson6801 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    the man who brought down the beast

  • @paulmcgrath3248
    @paulmcgrath3248 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bowie sequel photo

  • @martm216
    @martm216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A choice of Heseltine or Tebbit? Heseltine every time.

  • @gavin4981
    @gavin4981 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tnb

  • @BossySwan
    @BossySwan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What he did to Mrs Thatcher was a disgrace

    • @aaropajari7058
      @aaropajari7058 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He did nothing more than she had done to Heath. Both asked for it politically.

    • @BossySwan
      @BossySwan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@aaropajari7058 only one of them was any good and it certainly wasn’t Heseltine or Heath

    • @aaropajari7058
      @aaropajari7058 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@BossySwan Certainly not Heath. We'll never know about Heseltine.

    • @jonathanbuss7538
      @jonathanbuss7538 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What she did to the British people was a disgrace.

  •  6 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's wrong with a BIG ego!

  • @bazboy24
    @bazboy24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If there is one politician I hate its Michael Heseltine

    • @roberthutchins4297
      @roberthutchins4297 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should know if there is one politician you hate. Count them ....

  • @danarose6314
    @danarose6314 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I guess Thatcher restored some sort of English pride but she really was a disaster-the beginning of the unravelling of the UK now reinforced by Brexit.

  • @lennylaa1686
    @lennylaa1686 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A ghastly snivelling liberal snob; never a Conservative,...brought down the greatest Prime Minister this country has ever known,
    the quite brilliant and resolute Margaret Thatcher.
    Part of the One Nation, No Nation clique of 50's genteel decline that paved the way for trade union tyranny and industrial decline of the 1960's and 70's. Central to the ineptitude of Heath and Major,...brought us the EU catastrophe, the ERM fiasco
    and disastrous 15% interest rates, boom and bust,...led to the Tories worst ever G/E defeat in 1997 to old demon eyes Blair.
    Heseltine, a fake and a fraud and a phoney.

    • @Eric_200
      @Eric_200 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well said my friend..spot on assessment.

    • @lennylaa1686
      @lennylaa1686 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Heseltine? I agree!

    • @splinterbyrd
      @splinterbyrd 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      A client of mine told me he sat next to Heseltine at dinner once and found him incredibly boring; his sole topic of conversation was himself

    • @nicolettacinci3053
      @nicolettacinci3053 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lennylaa1686 well said indeed.

    • @drooky123
      @drooky123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maggie the puppet master. although already ousted by her own party - she still had the final say by making sure her man Major got in to succeed her and kept that Heseltine OUT...!!! The Iron Lady to the very end :-))