Tory! Tory! Tory! Episode 1: "Outsiders"
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- Synopsis (adapted from Wikipedia):
This edition tells of the radicals in the political wilderness after World War II, who saw the foundation of the Welfare State as the thin end of a totalitarian wedge. At first, they were seen as cranks, but gradually they attracted supporters within the political mainstream. It was only when Margaret Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party that they saw a champion.
The re-emergence of classical liberalism began with Antony Fisher, an old Etonian chicken farmer, who made a fortune by introducing battery cage farming into the UK. Fisher had lost his younger brother fighting against Nazi Germany in the Battle of Britain and was determined to use his fortune to combat what he saw as the totalitarian tendencies of the Labour Government's policies e.g. nationalisation, price controls, and the welfare state. Influenced by the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, he established the Institute of Economic Affairs under the directorship of Ralph Harris.
Harris and his research director, Arthur Seldon, were both economists from working-class backgrounds who had grown to support the free market. After being warned by Fisher that their task could take twenty years, they grew old together, beavering away at their small Westminster office and churning out a stream of pamphlets designed to influence academics, journalists and politicians to the view that the free market is the most efficient and liberal way to organise social affairs, and that government intervention is often wasteful. They were widely dismissed until 1964, when Edward Heath championed their policy in his abolition of price controls.
The Editor of The Times, William Rees-Mogg, sent Peter Jay to the U.S. as economic correspondent where he learned of the Monetarist theories of Milton Friedman. Enoch Powell became the champion of free market economics in British politics, fighting with Heath, a more centrist politician, for control of the party: he was the second biggest loser from Heath's election win, as it prevented Powell from taking control of the party. Heath had attempted to reduce the power of the trade unions but was eventually beaten by the strikers.
Following the February 1974 election defeat former Health Minister Keith Joseph turned against Heath and his neo-Keynesian policies to become a champion of free market economics, but lost his position and influence after his controversial "human stock" speech. Joseph's close friend and ally, Margaret Thatcher, put herself forward as the free market candidate in the subsequent leadership election and won a surprising victory. Jay met with Thatcher at a dinner where he explained to her the monetarist theories that she would subsequently adopt.
A Mentorn Production, commissioned by Controller of BBC Four Janice Hadlow. First broadcast March 8th, 2006.
Note: short clips from the TV shows ''Hancock's Half Hour'' and "Yes Minister" have been removed to satisfy TH-cam's copyright requirement.
Director: Don Jordan
Producer: Dan Hillman
Series Producer: Don Jordan
Executive Producer, BBC: Lucy Hetherington
Executive Producer: Sam Collyns
Associate Producer: Maggie Gu
Production Executive: Anna Clement
Production Manager: Fiona MacCuish
Production Coordinator: Will Yates
Dubbing Mixer: Steve Cookman
Dubbing Editor: Robin Green
Colourist: Tim O'Brien
Online Editor: Sue Giovanni + Richard Wilding
Film Editor: Paul Trevor Bale
Photography: Colin Rogal
Sound: David Calvert + Bob Withey
Film Researcher: Sue Tiplady
Narrator: Haydn Gwynne
Music composed by Elizabeth Parker
Cast (in order of credited appearance)
Linda Whetstone
Shirley Williams
Robert Skidelsky
Peter Clarke
Ralph Harris
Marjorie Seldon
Simon Jenkins
Peter Jay
William Rees-Mogg
John Nott
Neil Hamilton
Norman Tebbit
Cecil Parkinson
Antony Jay
Also featuring (archive footage):
Clement Attlee
Cherie Blair
Tony Blair
Paul Eddington (as James Hacker)
Derek Fowlds (as Bernard Woolley)
Tony Hancock
George Harrison
Nigel Hawthorne (as Sir Humphrey Appleby)
Edward Heath
Sid James
Keith Joseph
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Enoch Powell
Ringo Starr
Margaret Thatcher
Hello Mr Hunt. Thanks a lot for uploading this series on Tory! Tory ! Tory! I really enjoyed watching it , loads of lessons about British Politics and Government. Excellent 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
this is a wonderful 3 part documentary,a real eye opener as all good docs should be,thanks so much for these uploads
Jacob's dad was the Spitting image of him, even sounds exactly like him.
Thank you for uploading this gem!
Amazing documental...!!!
Cheers from Venezuela!
The answer to the capitalist/socialist debate is so blindingly obvious that even I can see it. The great majority of people do not want some monolithic totalitarian state. But neither do the great majority want an outright capitalist free for all where people who, for a variety of reasons, cannot survive in a wholly competitive fend for yourself environment. The answer is, what we had for periods in postwar Britain, a mixed economy, where certain essential services are provided by the government, either directly or by government funding. Everything else can be left to a healthy private sector.
Because of that postwar model the country was left behind France Germany or Italy
Before Thatcher Britain was called the sick man of Europe because of the state intervention that subsidized anything and everything, strikes everyday highest taxations of Europe.
The situation was so bad that we had to call financial institutions to look after our budget
The state should play its main prerogative role defense, inflation, justice, foreign affaires and not putting their nose into people's business or controlling the economy
Oh for a Sir Keith Joseph. Don't agree with all his views, but he had an intellectual cohesion which meant he was worth listening to. AND he was not an extremist.
Great channel, thanks so much
The current lot seem to think that freedom means freedom from responsibility (Covid Cummings).
Very interesting series, but may I point out an error. We are told (31.00) that Enoch Powell "went to his constituency in Birmingham". While the so-called 'rivers of blood' speech was made in Birmingham Edgbaston, his constituency was Wolverhampton South West. No proud Wulfrunian would relish being told they are part of Birmingham!
If you watch Alan Clark's History of the Tory Party, even a (elderly, frail) Powell himself says he gave the speech to his constituency, but of course it was in the Midland Hotel - very strange that the city centre was in the Edgbaston constituency back then.
0:07 Wish I could find this piece of music
The idea that Thatcherism, monetarism, classical liberalism, right-wing conservatism (whatever you call it) only started because of a single chicken farmer in the 1950s - and that everyone else was quite happy with the post-war consensus - is pretty obviously nonsense.
Thatcher's mission was accomplished by Tony Blair and Brown. How very wonderful!
New Labour hip hip hoorah!
Enoch Powell was a true REVOLUTIONARY visionary.
street parade change well short of revolutionary, in some ways I’d say he was trying to hold on to a British past for the British poor people
~And a racist (watermelon smiles).
Don’t we need a labour labour labour doco
You mean commie commie commie??
Search for ”cast in to the wilderness” the first part of four.
David Smith ~ Were now entering uncharted water, Bozza and his
80 seat majority will be under enormous strain. Just like the song, “There maybe trouble ahead”.
Whig Whig Whig sounds more beautiful
I know it's Lib Dem
You see, the labour labour labour documentary should be made about the Atlee government and the postwar consensus, because they like the Thatcher government 30 years after them fundamentally changed how the UK was governed, and how economics was applied.
Where I live in the westcountry, the Conservative Association has a local nickname, the Tucking Furies (or at least that's what it sounds like.)
You seem like a pleasant person.
@@BN-hk6wf I know 🙂
@@splinterbyrd That's the left for you, compassionate and caring for everyone, unless you disagree with their wish for a totalitarian state.
Battery farming and conservatism. Not doing much favours for themselves here.
goodbye,goodbye,goodbye captain chaos Johnson grabbed the helm and now all hands lost glug glug
Labour haven’t worn an election in nearly 20 years 😂
Just can’t be so few comments,
Free market = corporate greed