Glenda Jackson: Late ex-MP delivers immense anti-Thatcher speech days after Thatcher's death
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- Glenda Jackson on the 10 April 2013, two days after the death of Margaret Thatcher, delivers an explosive speech on how Thatcherism has destroyed Britain.
Rest in power.
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What I like about this woman, was that she didn’t let the moaning and chuntering from the other side stop her. She went right on speaking.
That's normal in the UK parliament.
@@jerometaperman7102 Yeah, in British-style parliaments, you have to be able to speak while other members do their best to loudly distract you. The U.S. Congress followed the example of the Iroquoi , who always took turns speaking. A much more civilized way of debate, to be sure.
@@ntodd4110 - I did not know that about the Iroquois but I agree that it is better.
@@ntodd4110 Somewhat like a teacher speaking nonchalantly in a tumultuous classroom.
@@kopend Sure, those people are all cretins, BUT they must wait their turn to speak, which is a more civilized and productive way of managing debate - even when lunatics lunatics participate.
My memory of Jackson as an MP was her crying during a radio interview as she tried to explain that there was no case to invade Iraq and that we were sending soldiers to their death as well as going to kill innocent people. She was so right.
In the same interview there was some member of the public being absolutely gung ho and calling her everything he could on the public airwaves.
I may not have agreed with her politics, but she was intelligent and honourable. In complete contrast to the persons making headlines in the UK and the US.
Very well said freind .
Absolutely spot on.
Yes too right it's terrible
Bollocks
Who is that bloke who was so "gung ho"? He needs an award.
Sometimes when I’m questioning why I care so much about politics and policy and the feelings of indifference or ennui kick in, I listen to this speech and remind myself why I care. Thank you, Glenda.
Have another listen to Kinnock's speech just before the khaki election of 1983: that's another bracer. "I warn you not to be old..."
A truth that we need to keep in mind is that doing nothing is a decision. Doing nothing is not the same as not making a decision. You can decide to do nothing and that means that other people will make the decisions for you.
I hear you! I'm Canadian, and when I feel that way I look back at some of the speeches from our former Parliament members...and sometimes even British ones, like Tony Benn!
Yeah, there are some political speeches that are brilliant and remind you why it's so important to care.
@@craven5328 I'm also Canadian. Unfortunately there have been very few great orators in the history of the Canadian parliament. Where are you from if you don't mind my asking?
Great respect and appreciation to Glenda Jackson for her honesty. RIP Glenda Jackson.
What a Speaker of The House! Calm, grounded, honest, polite, clear, assertive, truthful, articulate, open, empathic, respectful, informed, acknowledging, and pragmatic. To clarify, I'm referring to the man serving as Speaker of The House in this video. I found the way he mediated between both sides of The House top notch.
And that's Mrs Thatcher. 🙂
No, that's John Bercow.
Order, order.
Mrs Thatcher had a degree in Chemistry and a degree in Law both from Oxford Uni
@@elizabethdarley8646 I'm not sure what your point is. Yes, she was educated, but she wasn't 90% of the things miry claims.
@@elizabethdarley8646 And a heart from granite.
Spot on Glenda. RIP Glenda.
Thank you Politics Joe for reviving this great speech.
Shes mad thatcher was hot and she’s deformed
What a poisonous hateful speech to give to the memory of Baroness Thatcher RIP.
For SylviaBaxter.
Of course you and I both have the absolute right to hold different opinions of Margaret Thatcher, however, I am wondering if you were an adult when she became p.m., or if you directly suffered because of the uncaring damage she caused for millions of people in all walks of life, or if you were employed amongst the many thousands of working people whose livelihoods were destroyed because of her insane hatred of unions. Everything Glenda Jackson said in her H of C speech about Margaret Thatcher was absolutely true. Before Thatcher ever rose beyond a more junior ministerial position, because of her miserliness and deeply uncharitable behaviours,she was commonly known as ‘Thatcher, the school milk snatcher’. Rightly, Thatcher was hated by millions of good people in Britain.
@@sylviabaxter265 It was all true. Sometimes the truth hurts.
@@sylviabaxter265 What a wonderful, truthful and enlightening speech for those people too young to remember the truly awful pit of despair that the despicable Thatcher plunged this country into! To defend that harridan, you must be extremely rich or extremely stupid. 😖
Brilliant and passionate. RIP Glenda Jackson, great lady. And more credit that her actor’s voice won out over the constant background noise
Great woman ! God bless her ☘️.
she held the floor with superb confidence
Amen!
@@emmabradford1740 She was comfortable in the skin she was in. When you have enough, you speak for those that don't.
She was my MP and my first Labour vote, I even met her once. Loved her.
Amazing .
If she were my local mp I would have voted for her too.
@@catherinethomas1276 good on you for saying .
Enjoy the memory. You won't ever see another Labour mp like her, that's for certain.
This time next year is the rebranding Olympics…
Same scum but different badges
Glenda was the real deal. She will certainly be missed and I can only hope that her spirit is kept alive by the Labour Party.
Labour has been coöpted by billionaires and the Zionist lobby. Irredeemable.
Today's Labour Party is not the one she was motivated to join. Can we imagine Keir Starmer making a speech like this? Everything has to be safe and bland, for fear of rocking the boat.
They might have if they had not been foaming at the mouth to jettison Jeremy Corbyn. Everybody keeps pointing out that he never formed the government, to which I argue, the elites within his party (who rolled over from Blair and Brown) behaved as if they were trying to lose on purpose in the hopes someone someone who would take the knee for special interests. And I argue that is exactly what happened, and that they were prepared to lose in perpetuity because they would rather make deals with the people who profited off the problems, then actually solve the problems. Hence the SNP calling them Tori light when they were under Ed Miliband’s leadership.
Labour has been the party of Thatcherism since 1997
it won't be. not with the current clown.
Great speech by Glenda Jackson bravely exposing the truth about Thatcher's character and legacy. What is concerning and sickening is Sir Keir Starmer's recent comments claiming he admires that vindictive "woman" who destroyed whole communities in the U.K. and was a good friend and protector of Chile's dictator and murderer Pinochet and also the child molester Jimmy Saville! Glenda Jackson was True Labour NOT New Labour and she will be remembered for her talent, her hard work and her integrity.
As an American, I mainly knew of Jackson as an actor but knew that she later became a Labour MP. This is my first time hearing this amazing speech. She will be missed. RIP.
There's another where she eviscerates _Iain Duncan-Smith_ that I think you'll also find worth your time.
Glenda Jackson was not only an incredible actor, and orator, but also a truly decent, and honourable person. And absolutely right in her excoriation of the vile, hateful and unforgivable Thatcher.
Absolutely bang on excellent speech Condolences 🙏 we will miss this Lady she was truly honourable. 👍🌹
Bellend
Rip Glenda May Jackson, you will be missed
@@jameshall6061 Right, Thatcher was a " bellend ".
Love you comment.
What a contrast to the tory who responded. He was like a caricature of a nasty, sinister, souless, psycopath! Then the speaker arrived, and wasn't he on the money!
We need more Glenda Jacksons.
Glenda Jackson: What a woman. I remember growing up with Ms Jackson - she seemed to be forever on the television (Women In Love, A Touch of Class, Mary, Queen of Scots...). What I find really interesting is that some of her speech is almost prophetic: Problems in/with the NHS, the homeless and Hogarth's vison of our society is no different now than it was 10 years ago. Thank you Ms Jackson...thank you for everything. ❤🙏🏾
Hogarth's satiric realistic portraits of dystopian 18th century London -- A Rake's Progress; and companion pieces Beer Street and Gin Lane (in one a drunken young mother leans out a window, her baby about to topple to the street below) -- happily raised mass consciousness and wrought some will to reform.
This was such a treat! I've had enormous respect for Glenda Jackson forever, first as an actress, then as a politician. I also agree with her views on Thatcherism and had the dubious pleasure to be attending uni in England when Maggie was there ruining everything she could get her hands on.
I think we can be pretty certain that the Queen herself was of the same mind as you and Glenda. I think during Thatcher's premiership, it was the only time her opinion on a sitting PM leaked to the press, and it wasn't complimentary. I know the palace threw a staffer under the bus for it, but considering her favourite PM was Wilson, there had to be some substance to those headlines.
Glenda was one of the best MPs Britain ever had. Possessed honour and intellect that is sorely lacking in today's crop of dishonest, mealy mouthed corporate frontpeople.
she reminded me of a British Bernie Sanders
She wrote noting of significance, she said nothing memorable. Some of her acting will be remembered, but she left no intellectual legacy. I don't say that because I disagree with her, but because it is true. There have been politicians who wrote books worth reading, but she did not. To the extent that she is remembered, it will be for a few films and some TV.
@@rileyanoid8444 Stalin left a lasting impression on a lot more people.
@@smtpgirlsanders was and is a fraud…more like mike gravel….
Great Woman, For the common man, and the homeless. The sad thing about homelessness, is that you become an invisible nuance.
Let me add my tribute to Lady Glenda, both as a superb actress and equally superb representative of the people. And let me add a word for Andrew Faulds, who inspired Glenda to enter politics and was inspired himself by hosting Paul Robeson in his home when Robeson did Othello at Stratford. My blessings to both.
I agree, she was indeed a glorious actor, and a wonderful MP, but she was not a 'Lady'!
Glenda was awarded a CBE in 1978; maybe that's what you're thinking of? 🎖
@@221b-Maker-Street Please to forgive this ignorant colonial. Here we bandy those terms about sincerely but rather carelessly.
Yes well Canada has a former drama teacher as PM he's mocked for that but British Politics almost seems to demand dramatics.
History is repeating itself unfortunately, Rest in peace Glenda, honourable talented lady
Well Bryan I’m sorry to say you are correct.
It always needs to repeat itself until lessons are learnt!
Great actress, great human being; I well remember her on an American talk show being challenged for promoting health care for all: withering look, followed by “ I don’t think people should be penalized for being ill.”And of course I remember the many amazing performances.
And who is going to pay now for all the universal health care since our population is full of a bunch of people who are undocumented and wish to remain undocumented, so we give them better health care than people who are citizens. But citizens don't count, do they?
Sen. Barack Obama co-sponsor S. 1033 in the 109th CONGRESS
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 12, 2005
A BILL
To improve border security and immigration.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.-This Act may be cited as the “Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act”.
(7) Illegal immigration fosters other illegal activity, including human smuggling, trafficking, and document fraud, all of which undermine the national security interests of the United States.
(8) Illegal immigration burdens States and local communities with hundreds of millions of dollars in uncompensated expenses for law enforcement, health care, and other essential services.
Citizens don't count, do they? Obama said they do, in 2005 but to get your vote, he said something different in to get your vote. This is taken directly from, and I mean directly, not from another source, not from a Republican or Conservative website, this is Congress.gov, the official website of tracking what every senator has voted for, put his name on, signed, sponsored or co-sponsored.
Now, do you agree that universal health care will work in the United States?
And now her evil agenda is destroying Britain. As do all socialist.
I've only just picked up on this. What a great video, thank you. I grew up with Thatcher and hate her with a vengeance.
Hate is really bad for you. Let it go.
Legend Glenda, that's what decency, integrity and authenticity looks like, and guts!!!
She didn't denigrate, she stated realities. Angry babies can't deal with an honest eulogy.
They're two legged black holes. Demons.
The exact same thing can be said about Thatcher. She didn't denigrate anything either, she stated realities and angry babies still can't deal with the honest eulogy she gave of the 1970s.
@@myoctobersymphony4446 my guy she fucked the nation in order to apply short term fixes to systemic problems.
@@myoctobersymphony4446 she was tory she was evil , simples
@@ozzie2612 she fought evil, simple.
RIP Glenda Jackson.
She was both a great politician and a great actress.
She will be missed.
We need more like her in the commons.
Greatest actress ever. How can anybody give that speech without a script or teleprompter. Amazing.
American Bernie Sanders is like that.
They can when their words ring true from the heart and soul.
Passion, practice, confidence, and a firm belief in what is right. Also decades of experience and discipline. Magnificent.
It's called speaking from the heart.
it is a thorough knowledge of the subject, poise, and conviction
Very well said and sadly true rip Glenda
Hear, hear! And all without a note. She was a magnificent actor and an even more magnificent human being.
RIP the great Glenda Jackson. Vale! Truth ,Caring, Principles, Integrity
The internet/antisocial media and greedism/consumerism now destroyed all of that
@@tubecated_development The internet did no such thing; what rot. Vile people in power - and abuse of the vulnerable and needy - have existed forever. 😔
a person of moral fibre with a sense of moral justice ...how rare she was..r.i.p.
"People knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing"..... Well said
I was wondering if she was Glenda the MP or Glenda as Elizabeth I. Wow, what a speech, the woman had balls! RIP MP Jackson, you will be missed!❤😪🙏✝️
Kudos to Ms Jackson for her bravery and her composure. What a shame to deliver this truthful and powerful message to a noisy and disrespectful audience that reminds of a kindergarten, a chicken coop or even a lunatic asylum.
What an orator, fantastic speech, wonderful person who used her celebrity for good.
I’m not at all sure that she used her celebrity in her political career at all. She used her abilities as an actor to good effect when speaking, and she knew the time to leave politics and have her swansong in her original career. She was just a brilliant actor, possibly the best we’ve ever had, and she surrendered that for her spell as an MP fighting for causes close to her heart. RIP Glenda.
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I revisit this speech regularly to remind myself of its searing brilliance. Thank you, Glenda. You make me proud to be a woman. RIP. xx
Numbskull
@@jameshall6061your defending the woman who destroyed our neighbourhoods. Scum!
@@jameshall6061 troll
@@alex.velasco Bellend
I can understand that - I've only just found it & already watched it twice & sent to about 10 people. It's so truthful & brilliant it would make you weep.
Tremendous speach from Glenda. She hits the nail on the head - greed, pure & simple
Bellend
And voters give her the permission to be a horrible witch
@@jameshall6061 Nice to meet you but you did not have to tell us what you are. We knew it already.
@@trident6547 Well I know what you are,another supercilious Numbskull who hides behind a pseudonym.Trident 65 ? FFS clownworld.
That was the caricature, pure and simple.
I fear the essence of Glenda Jackson's speech has become timeless. She was a caring, articulate and courageous MP who actually gave a damn about her constituents and everyone in the country. Her passing has been a sad day indeed and the world is now a lesser place for it.
Sorry for the loss of Glenda Jackson. She was a brilliant actress and woman. Good she stood up to Thatcherism the best she could. To many politicians who embrace Thatcherism and Reaganom.
Very well said.
Its called neoliberalism, and its what's destroying our western societies today.
Wow! What an incredible statement from such a wonderful lady. Huge love and respect.
Love to you always, Glenda.
R.I.P
Wow - how prescient - it's history repeating itself 😞
I sit here with tears in my eyes, both in tribute to a necessary voice of wisdom that we have lost, but also to a voice of wisdom we most urgently need.
Glenda Jackson was utterly spot on about the awful legacy of the vile and uncaring Thatcher. She deserved no praise ever for the immense and deliberate damage she inflicted on so many ordinary British people who deserved so much better.
So good to hear the truth retold so eloquently.Thank you
i am glad she passed. Red faced alcoholic.
And didn't it rankle with the morally corrupt Tories?
What truth?
John Bercow was a real one with parliamentary speeches
Yes, it seems a distant memory when the speaker had some semblance of control over the proceedings.
And a bit of a pompous bully too.
@@nudgenudgewinkwink3212 As was his right, it's a shame Hoyle isn't nearly the same as Bercow even if Hoyle has stepped in at points
@@alice1374 What!! he has the right to bully his staff 🤨
@@nudgenudgewinkwink3212 Well, it depends to the extent of bullying as all bullying is different there's severe extreme bullying and then the bullying that is playful and a side thing
What a fantastic speech. Well said.
Rest in Peace Glenda Jackson you fought the good fight. You deserve your rest.
I saw her in Toronto opposite Christopher Plummer in Macbeth. Her passion and power was just as strong in this video. When they heckled her, she didn’t stop. She beat down the hecklers and continued. RIP
Extraordinary fortitude and bearing. In this colourless, timorous age of political niceties and social tribalism I fear there will never be another Glenda Jackson. And that is a great loss.
Glenda Jackson , a total human being . nothing else to be said ,🙏
Except "useless piece of shit!"
She advocated for the government to have complete control over you lives.
This is such a powerful speech from a very intelligent woman. May she RIP.
Glenda Jackson = a great woman who DOES dare to tell the truth. I only wish she was in the House of Commons today.
Yes me as well
So, how do we inspire others today to pick up her mantle? This should be the question.
@@teresastolarskyj They are there already talking loudly, just not on the campaign trail.
The moment they appear to do that, vote for them.
Glenda Jackson spoke truth with clarity and strength.
May she rest in peace. 🕊
What courage, conviction, and compassion! Speaking truth to power … Rest in peace, Glenda Jackson!
Who gave the tories power? The people, three times!
What a brilliant woman. We need more like her.
You only just woke up to this.I been spouting this for years
😠 Indeed we do. Where are the heirs of Barbara Castle? Jenny Lee? Betty Boothroyd? Mo Mowlam? Margaret Bondfield? Ellen Wilkinson? A resurgent Labour and Socialist Party must learn from these wonderful Members of Parliament before asking the electorate for permission to govern the country on our behalf.
@@sirmeowthelibrarycat anybody other than this lot... torys out
@@alfching2499good for you, but that doesn't matter, just keep working on bringing people to consciousness and keep it moving.
I'm old,poor and disabled (cerebral palsy) Glenda Jackson spoke for me and countless others,who have no voice in society.
Extremely well said.
Thatcher saved this country from the vile clutches of socialism.
@@norrismcsquirter9874 Thatcher got stabbed in the back, Years later Johnson getting stabbed in the back RIGHT NOW, same old Tories,
@@norrismcsquirter9874 One only has to view your spelling 'Norry', to realise what Thatcher did to schools, while "the vile clutches" of neoliberalism are and remain far worse than - now let me spell it for you - S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M!
@@killmrdarcy4367 norry must have been squirting hard when he wrote that attempt at a point, judging by the dreadful spelling 😂
Rip Glenda Jackson, absolute legend.
Glenda Jackson was a wonderful woman. I was lucky enough to meet her. It was at the demonstration against George W Bush's state visit. She was intrigued by my placard which read "Crawfish Bush, go home." So I explained to her what it meant. I talked to her like she was my equal.
Brava! Bravissima Glenda! What a fiery spirit and power of oratory! No wonder she was the best Elizabeth I (other than the original) that ever has been, or will be.
Wonderful actress,wonderful politician and a caring human(e) woman who fought for the poorest in our society. She went to the girls school in West Kirby,my boarding school for disabled children was next door. Rest in peace dear lady,condolences to your family.
Well said.
@@mitchmitchell515 Thank you. What I wrote came from the heart. Coincidentally I wasn't moved when Thatcher died.
Mitch I'm going down the pub to raise a glass to Glenda and to celebrate Johnson,getting his arse kicked by the cross-party committee.
This is and always has been iconic ❤
1:28 she may have delivered that speech in 2013 but when I was in Primary School whilst The Conservatives were in power under John Major, I remember that we definitely had books wrapped in wall paper! It's so weird looking back at it now, by the time I was in secondary school, Labour were in and I never saw a wall paper wrapped book again.
I bet that's what foodbanks are like for the youth today, just a normal part of life, when for me it was unheard of till I was in my twenties when the Conservatives took power again.
School dinners were awful too, boiled leathery lamb and spam fritters, with concrete like biscuits for dessert, though the chocolate rice crispy chunks and chocolate cornflake blobs were actually ok too.
Great speech! And NOTHING against parliamentarian rules!
What a speak! About time more people spoke like this!
Glenda was correct about Thatcher. We are still suffering from privatisation to this day as well as the running down of the NHS and public sector.
Of course you are,she divided the nation and it’s never joined back again.She was the most Evil thing that ever walked the UK
She really wasn't though, it was a speech she gave to let off whatever steam she felt about the coalition government. It wasn't really about Thatcher at all.
@@myoctobersymphony4446 You give off the distinctive vibe of someone who couldn’t make a girl wet even if you had a water pistol
@@myoctobersymphony4446 troll
@@franc9111you're a troll yourself.
Absolutely brilliant Glenda has articulated (in a way I never could) how I feel about the thatcher era and it’s terrible legacy even to this day.
Glenda actually had a great time during the Thatcher era, so most of the speech really was just theatrics, which of course she was extremely proficient in.
@@myoctobersymphony4446 In that speech she never claimed to have personally suffered because of it, just that the effects were very noticeable and terrible. You're trying so desperately to 'debunk' this, and it's not working.
@@thatmarchingarrow right, the effects were so "very noticeable and terrible" that her own constituency voted for Maggie before they voted her in.
RIP Glenda Jackson. Actor Par excellence and a speaker of truth to Power.
Hear, Hear!
Thank you for this upload.
M heart has seldom been so heavy as it is right now. The world is poorer without her.
The way she talks through the dissenters and cowards is greatly missed, absolutely on point with every word and now proved right.
What a great speech and a great loss to everybody who cares about social justice for everyone
And they actually built a memoriam to this dispicable woman.
Ten years later, things are even worse. The UK is finished.
When there are no refugees wanting to go to the UK then you have a problem and if you are dissatisfied just leave .
Just like the USA. Saint Ronny reagan was our Thatcher.
Because of people like Glenda Jackson. She destroyed your country.
@@ey67The only thing Ronald Reagan did wrong was to pardon the illegal aliens. We are still paying for that betrayal. Everything else was OK
I like how powerful her speech is, Tories are even worse than demons
This human was the first time I as a Socialist knew film stars were not just Lovey entitled Gits, But worthy of my support, by believing in them as Human Representatives
Hear the scumbags opposite desperately trying to jeer her down, but it didn't work. Nice speech, said with real passion.
Yes…they sicken me
I was a student in the UK in 1982 (from FSU) and she's not wrong about Thatcherism
fyi the best send-up of Thatcherism is Peter Greenaway's film "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover"
She is wrong about socialism. Socialism is evil to the core.
this government are a stain on this nation , country has declined and they sat back and continue to line there own pockets!
Brilliant well spoken ❤
The greatest of actors, the greatest of human beings, and the greatest of politicians. The world is a much darker place now without Glenda in it.
So in that respect she had a lot in common with Maggie.
Unless you're a democrat.
It's so depressing!
We need history not violence or discrimination!
@@myoctobersymphony4446 A clown like you could only clown. The death of your 'Maggie' produced a sigh of relief, mate, among all those with a little bit of decency (and more than two brain cells to rub together), one POS less in this world! The opposite of the justified grief we feel for the great Glenda.
What a powerful speech. It's so timely it should be played in full in prime time as a fitting tribute to the great woman Jackson was. The values she espoused are currently almost nowhere to be seen among politicians.
The people voted thatcher in 3 TIMES. So who are to blame? THE PEOPLE!
May the Iron Lady rust in the eyes of history.
Rest in piss
Oy! Plastic doesn't rust. She was just painted to look like iron.
She was a painted lady for the criminal class who think they own the world.
@@k3v1n47 Corrupt Rotton eyed Bastards
She'll never rust, she'll always stand tall in the annals of history.
@@k3v1n47 she was iron, there was nothing "plastic" about her.
So true it’s unbelievable
She was 100% correct. Thatcher 's austerity paradigm wreaked havoc on the economy and ultimately led to her loss of support from the Tories.
Reminds me of what Canadian/American economist John Kenneth Galbraith said:
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"
Such a brilliant speech and her vocie is so much more authoritative and wise than Thatchers that the juxtaposition between the two is beautiful.
You must be hard of hearing since Thatcher's voice was perfectly authoritative and wise.
@@myoctobersymphony4446 troll
Believe MT was coached to speak in a lower register. Rather hectoring
May her memory be a blessing.
What a woman. What a shame that this calibre of human being - of this
substance - is now extinct from British politics. What a sham the UK has become in the past 40 years.
The past 40 years have seen greater living standards than ever before.
@@myoctobersymphony4446 Really! What planet do you live on? Maybe the me myself and I Thatchers Tories ideology.
Tories do not believe in society as Thatcher said. They do not believe in communities. 40 years on latter ideology take take take and nothing put back hence where we are today.
What goes around comes around and for every action follows a reaction. 40 years on the result from Thatcher's ideology of actions is evident to see. No requirement for rose tinted specks. Look at the thorns.
@@myoctobersymphony4446 😠 Except for the homeless. Except for those in substandard accommodation. Except for those in Grenfell Tower. 😢 💐 R.I.P.
@@myoctobersymphony4446 troll
@@sirmeowthelibrarycat *sigh* Yes. There will ALWAYS be exceptions. They only go to prove the general rule.
That was brave of Glenda, just after the awful old bags demise 👏
And well done to John Bercow, who defended Glenda 👏
Calling Glenda an awful old bag is a bit harsh.
@@myoctobersymphony4446 She’s referring to your mother.
I remember us singing 'the wiched witch is dead'.
@@helenswan705 you must've really hated Glenda.
@@myoctobersymphony4446 You entirely misunderstand. I hated Thatcher. I loved Glenda.
The force of will and principle, dedication to speaking out against righteous injustice and even courage it would have taken to deliver that speech is nothing short of remarkable, as was Glenda herself. No one else could have done it like this and few would have ever tried. Thank You Glenda. You will be missed always and forgotten, never xxxxx.
In case anyone wishes to read her speach: 🌹
"Mister Speaker, when I made my maiden speech in this Chamber, a little over two decades ago, Margaret Thatcher had been elevated to the other place but Thatcherism was still wreaking, and had wrought for the previous decade, the most heinous social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country, upon my constituency and upon my constituents. Our local hospitals were running on empty. Patients were staying on trolleys in corridors. I tremble to think what the death rate among pensioners would have been this winter if that version of Thatcherism had been fully up and running this year. Our schools, parents, teachers, governors, even pupils, seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time fundraising in order to be able to provide basic materials such as paper and pencils. The plaster on our classroom walls was kept in place by pupils’ art work and miles and miles of sellotape. Our school libraries were dominated by empty shelves and very few books; the books that were there were held together by the ubiquitous sellotape and off-cuts from teachers’ wallpaper were used to bind those volumes so that they could at least hang together. By far the most dramatic and heinous demonstration of Thatcherism was certainly seen not only in London, but across the whole country in metropolitan areas where every single night, every single shop doorway became the bedroom, the living room and the bathroom for the homeless. They grew in their thousands, and many of those homeless people had been thrown out on to the streets as a result of the closure of the long-term mental hospitals. We were told it was going to be called -it was called-“care in the community”, but what it was in effect was no care in the community at all. I was interested to hear about Baroness Thatcher’s willingness to invite those who had nowhere to go for Christmas; it is a pity that she did not start building more and more social housing, after she entered into the right to buy, so that there might have been fewer homeless people than there were. As a friend of mine said, during her era, London became a city that Hogarth would have recognised-and, indeed, he would. In coming to the basis of Thatcherism, I come to the spiritual part of what I regard as the desperately wrong track down which Thatcherism took this country. We were told that everything I had been taught to regard as a vice-and I still regard them as vices-was, in fact, under Thatcherism, a virtue: greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees, all these were the way forward. We have heard much, and will continue to hear over next week, about the barriers that were broken down by Thatcherism, the establishment that was destroyed. What we have heard, with the words circling around like stars, is that Thatcher created an aspirational society. It aspired for things. One former Prime Minister who had himself been elevated to the House of Lords, spoke about selling off the family silver and people knowing in those years the price of everything and the value of nothing. What concerns me is that I am beginning to see what might be the re-emergence of that total traducing of what I regard as the spiritual basis of this country where we do care about society, where we do believe in communities, where we do not leave people and walk by on the other side. That is not happening now, but if we go back to the heyday of that era, I fear that we will see replicated yet again the extraordinary human damage from which we as a nation have suffered and the talent that has been totally wasted because of the inability genuinely to see the individual value of every single human being. My hon. Friend the Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) referred to the fact that although she had differed from Lady Thatcher in her policies, she felt duty bound to come here to pay tribute to the first woman Prime Minister this country had produced. I am of a generation that was raised by women, as the men had all gone to war to defend our freedoms. They did not just run a Government; they ran a country. The women whom I knew, who raised me and millions of people like me, who ran our factories and our businesses, and who put out the fires when the bombs dropped, would not have recognised their definition of womanliness as incorporating an iconic model of Margaret Thatcher. To pay tribute to the first Prime Minister denoted by female gender, okay; but a woman? Not on my terms."
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[After she had finished speaking, the Tory MP Sir Tony Baldry tried to have the Speaker rule that such attacks on Thatcher’s memory were out of order:]
"(Point of order, sir Tony Baldry)
Mr Speaker, the conventions of the House in respect of those occasions - rare occasions - on which the house chooses to make tributes to a person who has been deceased are well established. This is not and has never been a general debate on the memory of the person who has been deceased, but an opportunity for tributes, not an opportunity for honorable members to denigrate the memory of the person who has been deceased.
(Resumed his seat.)"
[but the Speaker said:]
"I'm grateful to The Honorable gentleman for his - and I use the term advisedly - attempted point of order.
Let me be explicit for the benefit both of the honorable gentleman and of the house:
all honorable and right honorable members take responsibility for what they say in this place.
The responsibility of the chair is to ensure that nothing unparliamentary occurs.
Let me assure the honorable gentleman for the avoidance of doubt: nothing unparliamentary has occurred.
We are debating a motion that says that this house has considered the matter of tributes to the baroness Thatcher."
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Jackson was a great actor wasting her time pretending to be a politician.
Thank you for this transcript.
From an American perspective not only a brilliant actress (two-time Oscar winner) but also every Tory's nightmare. Glenda is in the clouds laughing at Maggie who is burning in the fire.
How exactly did thatcher affect the americans exactly...you have your own issues with presidents who can't keep their dicks in their trousers....
You seem extremely well informed about the turbulent times during 80's here in the UK. It was pretty grim .Officially 3.3 million people were unemployed because of Margaret Thatcher whole industry's destroyed communities decimated. Glenda Jackson was a brilliant MP.
Not only did she usher in an era of rampant individualism, materialism, and moral decay, as well as the immense social and spiritual dislocation Ms. Jackson outlined, Thatcher also destroyed conservatism in Britain by aligning with neoliberal globalisation and Reaganite market dogma. The ‘conservative’ party have never shaken this affliction and it shows today with two Blairite parties singing from the same ‘Third way’ hymn sheet and the disaster that was Liz Truss.
@@chrisholland7367so well said and true ,worst of all for us people she got interest rates up to a staggering 18 percent ,you could work has hard as you liked and I did ,but all your money went on the house and bills because by now ,not only had she privitised everything shed even devised an extra bill for us ,anyone who heard the words corporation pop will know ,and this sounds incredible these days but water was free ,back then it was in with your rates which is now council tax ,and as I said the new water bills after privatisation horrible bstd she was .
@@chrisholland7367 what did glenda jackson do for those decimated communities.?..did glenda jackson reduce unemployment.?...tell me one thing that glenda jackson did for the good of this country.?..i will wait.
R. I. P Glenda. A life well lived ❤
Bravo! Thank god somebody in the house spoke out
This shows what parliament used to be before it was filled with Tory's without minds spouting slogans. We need serious people to do this work and thatcherism is what allowed the horrors of her party to hurt us now
A good speech. But man, the big takeaway from me at the end there was that I really miss Bercow as speaker.
Indeed!
A brilliant summary of "Thatcherism" 👍 RIP, Glenda Jackson 😢
Why on earth do some people hold that woman (Thatcher) in such high regard? She was the epitome of everything that is wrong with society and the wider world. Her legacy has left us with a broken society.
What was wrong with Thatcher's policies? How did she destroy the country?
Well done Glenda Jackson, hats off to you from a lover of British law.
She was so right! RIP
What a brilliant decente human being and politicians , hope her words still resonate in many, specially now ! ❤️RIP
May her memory be a blessing.❤
We are still living with Thatcherism and Reaganism decades later. It's criminal what they have done to our respective countries.
and you are still taking benefits stolen from hard working people.
it just progressed to far worse state as both destroyed the social infrastructure and safety regulations which built the platform for Boris and Bush, Trump.
They improved Britain and USA and destroyed USSR. Read your history. Iran was the casualty which was looted the most.
@@saraswatkin9226 don't have to read it-- lived through it an no, they did not improve USSR. Stop the BS.
The more she talks about the conditions of the British working class, the more it sounds like those here in the States.