ITN Exclusive: Margaret Thatcher's Dramatic First Interview After Being Ousted From Power (1991)
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- In June 1991, Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sat down with ITN's veteran political correspondent Michael Brunson for an exclusive interview about her final days in Downing Street. It was the first time Thatcher had given her version of events since her resignation as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party in November 1990. In a 25-minute interview, an emotional Mrs Thatcher reflected in detail on the days leading up to her resignation. The former Prime Minister wept as she remembered accepting the loss of her cabinet's support and having the House of Commons after deciding to step down - an event Mrs Thatcher described as "traumatic".
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Extraordinary to see such open discussion. How far we have fallen!
Politicians are ALWAYS like that reflecting on their swansong.
We haven't fallen, keep the faith. The Tories dragged us down with them. I remember so many families struggling to pay th horrible poll tax. Many Communities drastically deteriorated. Thatcher said herself here, people told her We didn't vote for you !. it's happening again now. General Election repeatedly denied by the PM., The cost of living, of life, has increased so much, the UK is facing a National Shutdown. And after just barely surviving Covid Lockdown where so many Families, Businesses, our NthS, and more, lost so much, as Downing Street Tories secretly partied, we still are, being repeatedly knocked down, but fallen ? No. NEVER!! The United. Kingdom is NOT The Tory Kingdom..🇬🇧🏴💔
Sickening
8:07 The Interview is about nothing! Thousands of words and nothing has been said. All I know her party talks French. And all dressed in blue! No wonder our Queen could not stand her. My little self from Switzerland 🇨🇭prefers Red and Yellow in dress codes, while working. The funeral of our Queen made that christal clear and after we passed we are certainly not dead, but even more powerful because we can over cloak. Queen Elizabeth II, my Queen. The female movement is now Universal, no more Global or Fahrwangen only in Switzerland 🇨🇭. Our country only came into existence because we kicked the Roman Catholic Church out of our system in 1291. The evidences of that movement towards Monarchy is still in existence. Unfortunately Napoleon came back into the pictures, that brought us a lot of blue and black and white into the energy field again, which worked out for us in the collective until the EU was born.
Compare her with Ms Liss - ex PM. That is a big drawdown in standards.
I disagreed with Mrs Thatcher on a lot of things, but always had a somewhat grudging respect for her. I will say this, agree with her or not, I would take her over the current crop of utter lightweights and non entities that fill the house of commons today.
Total passion and belief in Britain
😂🤪
She was nuts.
What Britain? Theres no Britain, theres no British, there are only individuals and families.
An excluding Britain. She was not the PM for the whole nation.The ONLY PM in British living memory that had protests at their funeral. An outpouring of disgust and hate. That says it all. "Ding Dong, the witch is dead"
An ideological driven nut job who loved apartheid and hated Europe, driving whole communities into a forever disenfranchisement. What I can't say, was she genuine about describing the Nations economy like a household's budget or just a cynical appeal to the rubes who voted for her. Still she wasn't a kleptocrat like the current set of tories.
I adore the frankness of this; it's so refreshing. It's tragic how backward we've become in this regard.
1. You dont know the meaning of the word tragic. 2. We havent become backward in any regard except to say some people reserve unto themselves the right to be bigots in a way they havent for many years. Simple politeness seems alien to these people. Your beliefs arent entitled to respect. Especially if you are a racist homophobic bigot.
I'm assuming you are from the USA. Here in lilol UK we've a history of debating. In a chamber called "The House of Commons"
Where people have lead from the front.
Your country hasn't produced such great orators.
Although I'll concede, there'll be one or two in the mix.
Thank You for your recognition of Mrs Thatcher.
Here; altho' she's just been shown the door.
She had the grace to say, that Dennis Skinner was a marvellous parliamentarian.
Even though he gave her a terrible time; from the opposition left wing benches.
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@@steffanhoffmann8937 you're absolutely right that I'm an American. However, I wish I had the chance to live in the UK, as I adore all aspects of the rich history and culture, something I feel we lack here in the US. I have finally made plans to visit London next year, and I simply cannot wait. I am a big fan of history, particularly on the English, French and Spanish side, especially from the 1400s thru the early 1900s. I'll be visiting Heaver Castle, Westminster, the Tower and Hampton Court!
HONK IF THATCHERS DEAD
@@tedthecommenter5364 HOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!
She is a Leader. She will be up there with Disraeli and Churchill. What would she think of todays bs?
Disraeli is mostly responsible for all the deaths from the Potato Famine in Ireland because he would not repeal the Corn Laws. I suppose in this regard, Thatcher is like Disraeli in that she is a flawed leader and we should be most cautious about putting them on a pedestal because if one looks closely one will see a rotten pedestal.
Holy crap. Didn't see this when it aired. For me she was PM from the age of 9 to 20. Here I am at 53 and I am transfixed to see her weep. Thought the only time she did that was on the steps when she left.
You must understand that even when she despised her own sex she NEVER imagined she would be taken down by men. She reacted just like a woman and THAT was the first time she was a woman. Pity it came too late and for the wrong reason, ripping away her power.
Her voice still sends shivers of horror down my spine. Like a Slitheran house captain. The ONLY PM in British living memory that had protests at their funeral. An outpouring of disgust and hate. That says it all. "Ding Dong, the witch is dead"
I remember too. I’m 57 now.
She was my PM from ages 0-9. Confused my outlook on what women were mainly.
Good ridance.
I disagree with everything she stood for, but imagine a UK politician talking like that now. It could never happen, because they don't believe in anything except power for its own sake.
well the people in the 80's would disagree with you
@@jqames that's why she kept on winning because more people liked her over the 10 years she was in power
@@Gates2Aion 11.5 yrs. 👉😉
Your TH-cam name, suggests you were told this by your elders.
An area of the country that detested her.
However voted for the champagne socialist; Derek Hatton.
He was the problem up there; not her.
She put Michael Heseltine in charge of restructuring; and yet he was a huge critical opponent of hers within the Tory party.
The result was a better Docklands, more hi-tech jobs; and the beautiful Liverpool Garden Festival.
Hatton was jealous of course.
Btw your elders will never agree with me....
@@steffanhoffmann8937 I get it, there's issues where she didn't have fans, however the overall percentage of people did like her, and have strong reasons for that
One of the best🙏🏼
I don't agree with her politics, but she reminds me of a time when grown-ups were in charge.
A time before people like Boris The Fraud Johnson & Clown Corbyn 🎉
Now elders are in charge, in America at least.
Couldn't have said it better myself. True, true... Just class.
Part of that's because you're older, but part is because she did have a bit of a "Mummy knows best" attitude.
@@farmbrough I got to say your response makes no sense, perhaps you could elaborate, explain a little, maybe I'm missing something.
I have mixed views on this great lady. But seeing her speak you realise the country has nothing like this anymore. D team leadership today compared to Margaret.
The Tories gave up on Thatcher-like characters because of what she put in place and it has failed not just in Britain but America under Reagan, her GOOD friend. Another well presented showman. Oh, they miss him so much there like you. Instead now they can only appeal to the LOWEST common denominator. A voting public FULL of fear and hate.
@@michael1345 😵💫
shes in the ground
It's incredible how even though i dislike her policies, i admire her confidence, wit and candor.
The most genuine interview by any leader i have ever heard
Wow!! Poor frame of reference...
Did you ever hear Hitler or Stalin interviewed? You might come to the same conclusion.
You can only imagine being interviewed of your own downfall and answering those question with such dignity. She's truly formidable
A formidable sociopath.
Like her or not, you can't deny she carried herself with such dignity.
Certainly not affected. Deluded, I would say. She wasn't as bright as she thought she was. Daddy's girl syndrome of a worrying kind.
She was a superb person who did what needed to be done.
@@abrahamdecruz5128 Debatable. It's an opinion.
@@guillaumerusengo9371 In what way would you state she is not dignified? Be intersting to know with the kind of politicians we have today in the Tories, Labour, SNP.
She was lucky, thats all. The times suited her.
She was far from perfect, but she was absolutely straightforward and head and shoulders above any of her contemporary and any current politicians; what a woman, what a patriot. Let us hope that we see her like again.
The ONLY PM in British living memory that had protests at their funeral. An outpouring of disgust and hate. That says it all. "Ding Dong, the witch is dead"
Some folks liked her. Some didn't.
I wonder where you stand 😊
Yup.
If only you had Jeremy Corbyn or comrade Putin in charge, how wonderful life would be. For you.
You sad little article.
@@HestanIslandLad What is the need to make derogatory comments as if by doing so adds to the discussion. Then there is the "whatabouts" that have NO significance. Thatcher laid the groundwork for Britain's current deep F.....g hole and getting deeper. How did the brits get there, people like you who vote.
I hate the tories but I have so much respect for Margret. She’d be turning in her grave on her successors… liz truss especially.
I don't understand you. She instigated the 30+ years of neoliberalism f..k up. Truss "lettuce head" merely invoked her to the horror of the City financiers.
Fair enough, good to respect people you don't agree with. But Truss and Blair (OK not popular now with good reason) even Cameron I'd argue are similar or successors to Thatcher. For me Thatcher is not a proper tory, she's centre-right
I understand your love Of the Dark Queen and hatred of the Tories now, especially Liz Truss. But she put the Tory minions on this path of destruction decades ago. Even when Truss tried to raise her with Thatcher's own words NOTHING. Thatcher hated the Europeans and loved apartheid. Despised the poor and loved the rich, no one could match (or even really wanted to) her evil. ,So what does that make you. She KNEW your type. She understood the inherent racism of the majority. To this day goose bumps of horror still rise when I hear her soft, modulated voice in clips. If a snake could speak, that would be the exact sound. So, decades of Tory rule. A Labour Party not worth speaking about so terrified of the darkness she unleashed in people like you and you are ALL f...ed. Tiny little Islands with 64+ or - million with no natural resources to speak off. A crumbling education system and widening wealth gap.
Is that because Liz parroted her words? The ONLY PM in British living memory that had protests at their funeral. An outpouring of disgust and hate. That says it all. "Ding Dong, the witch is dead"
You have to understand that the ideology that makes the present lot so toxic really got going with Thatcherism. She was so nieve when she said, “Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.” And yet if it was poor miners wanting a fair deal they were seen as the ones who are greedy. She wanted freedom for the wealthy. Not for the common man.
Oh my goodness! Come the moment, come the woman! Where anywhere is their any leader from any party of the caliber of this woman. She was fabulously able to stick to her guns because she was inatley intelligent and she wanted the best fir the country
Margaret Thatcher was such a character.
Your spot on there mate..an evil character
@@ranjitverdi5702 Oh shut up, you leftist prat.
@@ranjitverdi5702 the last leader that mate the u.k feel together.
@@modifidious666 ha ha ha you are hilarious .what planet are you from bro?.Try explaining the feeling of Thatcher's blend of togetherness too the Miner's and Steel Workers who had their Coal field's and Steel Plants desimated.She was an evil bitch..end of.
She was a great diplomat and politician. The royals would not support her.
Imagine any of our current crop of politicians talk so wisely for 25 minutes?
@chris jones No. Blair, yes
Selective perception bias
@@cboy0394 oh, is that what it’s now, Christian? Thank you so much for your input. Sadly, wrong however,
Builderberger lacky ...wrecked the UK ...too late now Blair put the final nail in the coffin of Britain.
Witch, glad she is gone
She was a strong, forthright, hardworking, intellectual woman with a singular vision.. I fear we shall not see her like again.
Bad bad woman
@@iainmorrison7302exactly. entirely without humanity
Why is that?
She was a totalitarian, you have ZERO idea what you are talking about.
There are some of us still here
I like how every time he tries to interrupt her, she just keeps going with her answers/thoughts 👏
Isn't that every woman .
She never answered a question
Shes the emobodiment of a fanatic. Cant change her mind. Wont change the subject. If she was muslim she would be crucified by the bigots today. And that's a good thing.
@@jaysphere7519 proof?
He was pretty damn good at listening too, though.
Built smarter, tougher and more dignified back then
Love her or hate her, she had a plan and a vision, she was open about it, she executed what she said and she answered every question asked with her true opinion on any topic.
Now they all say soundbites, don't answer a single question and have absolutely no plan at all.
Tories need to go. They're awful. But Labour are even worse these days.
There's just nowhere to go.
Monster Raving Luny party
With you on that @cannedcrazy
You do know why the Tory Party got rid of her?
Before I say anything, I hate the tories but that doesn’t mean one cant respect a statesman/woman.
She was her party’s leader and an upfront politician. Watch from 10:23 onwards until 11:42, she is at her most vulnerable and she recoups it back- thats dignity. But that phrase said so quietly, “Yes, but I carried on”, hah… 10:55… makes you pause.
And BBC interviewer was like a journalist bulldog, as they should be, he hounded her to confront what happened during that week.
Impossible to seen such political dissection and honesty, in this day and age.
To think that Boris Johnson needed the greatest number of resignations amongst his own ministers in British history for him to go, is quite sobering for the modern day.
I'm not a huge fan of Thatcher's policies but as a politician and Prime Minister Bojo cannot hold a candle to her.
The thing that really disappointed me on Boris (apart from everything else...) This woman worked 18 hours a day for 11 years. I've never heard she was taking holidays (maybe someone can clarify) and if she did, it was for a few brief days. 11 years, 18 hours day, in the most high pressured job there is. And then comes Boris, the country in absolute turmoil, 2 years of pandemic, war in Ukraine, PM to be elected.... and he goes on holidays abroad, with a big group of friends, partying it like he has a 9-5 job somewhere and that's his 'summer break'. I was somewhat a fan of his... but that disdain for the job and country... it made me embarrassed for him.
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@@sk-2106 She had a lot to destroy and given her single mindedness, Boris could never imagine what that is like. However, even if alive or someone like her, her policies and Brexit ( which she would have agreed to, as hater of Europe) have finished Britain off.
@@michael1345 You are wrong! Thatcher was a big supporter of barrier free access to the European single market.
Tremendous. A conviction polititian par excellence.
Thatcher = Reagan. Two charlatans deceiving the working class.
This is when Britain was debt free.
Our current politicians fail to match her professionalism, whether her views were correct or not. A true leader.
You are sick , she was a monster
A true leader???? Poppycock! She sheds tears? She destroyed Britain’s manufacturing industry and her policies led to mass unemployment... 5.5 million unemployed. She increased interest rates and raised VAT from 8% to 15%. These measures hit export manufacturing incredibly hard. 115 Pits were closed almost half a million lost their jobs.
Over 2 million manufacturing jobs had been lost in the 1979-81 recession and swathes of industry had been decimated, never to recover. After the recession in 1983, manufacturing output was 30% lower than 1978 levels, reducing the manufacturing base so much that the balance of payments in manufactured goods was in deficit - and has been there ever since.
The Poll Tax and the CSA caused the record number of suicides in the UK ever. There were more riots in the UK than ever experienced before or after under Thatcher. And she sheds tears? What about the millions of the families lives that were ruined through her policies, I bet they cried a lot too - because of Thatcher. Statistically, the worst Prime Minister we have ever had.
Because they don't need to. Thatcher's government set the scene for almost every problem we face today started the spiralling authoritarian-right movement that's taken-over our politics. Just look at how it's become so safe for Labour to win that they've just jettisoned all of the lefties in their party.
There's no more 'old Labour' for competition and there hasn't been for decades. It's just Tories and irrelevant parties left.
A true leader despite questionable views...... are you okay bro?
@@KristijanRisteski-zp7bx views don't have anything to do with leadership skills. You can be a good leader with views people don't agree with lmao
First met Margaret Thatcher at a charity do, she was surprisingly down to earth and rather funny.
Honk if Thatcher's dead.
@@ash_yt0 HONK HONK
Yes it seemed she had two separate personas. I have found that out about most Conservatives. Happily make policies that will destroy whole communities or vote for same but hold an individuals hand who is suffering, even if said policies brought that suffering on. I would also like to say, progressives are good at positive societal change but often not good at showing empathy at the individual level. I include myself in the later. Of course there is a crossover.
I listened to this clip without watching it which for me personally can bring a difference to a conversation such as this. His questions searching for those deep emotions surrounding her leaving , searching for the real her.
She told it how it was.
She was hardworking, diligent and a great orator. Decades later many in politics could learn from her. She was divisive it has been said, perhaps?
A trailblazer? Oh very much so.
I saw your comment only a minute into watching this. As such, I'm taking your advice to listen first and then watch and listen.
Thanks for sharing your thought process on what you did and, more importantly, why you did it that way.
Yeah...her & Reagan. 🤮 😈
She was the only one brave enough to take the tough decisions to get the country back on its feet after decades of socialist decline. I lived through the 70s and the 80s and under Thatcher our hard working, working class council estate family was much better off. Being able to buy our own home (the first in our family EVER to do so) was transformative and the effects on our confidence and aspiration as a family cannot be underestimated
@@mogznwaz Well...if you are not so concerned about 'material' things...I have heard a lot of working class people from the same era express pleasure about moving into the new 'social housing' flats from the old slums in the 50's and 60's...under the Labour / Conservative 'consensus'...and a lot report that their younger days in the seventies, despite 3 day weeks, were still good (and cheap!) times to live through...just so you know this woman's triggering of emphasis on the 'supply side' of the finance chain and allowing single investors and hedge funds to better 'game' the market because of de-regulation has made all normal people worse off in the long one...as well as the neo-liberal successful attempt to 'freeze' wages for 90% of people to control inflation for the very top, so they get max value, and encourage an overreliance on credit in the populace at large ; also...essentially, your council house discount was a calculated bribe by the conservatives...and there has been hardly any new housing stock since then financed in a proper way by Government, or the private sector (although no surprise there) so we now have a housing crisis...started by this woman's 'narrow' policies...and whilst I am glad to hear that this worked for your family...there will be no more families like yours now...nowadays they will just have to accept sub-standard because they were born too late for the party...also, a lot of people who did buy their council homes...now they are older...have to sell them back again to even get the care they need...as the social care system is broken because of the neo-liberal dreck this woman started! So, always better to see the big picture than the purely personal one I think.
@@BelatedCommiseration We are all better off since the 70s. Poverty is a relative term. What’s considered poverty now would have been normal back then. The biggest issues we have had since then are globalisation (concentrating more wealth into fewer hands on a global scale) and mass immigration (and this is bad for a number of reasons). That’s at the root of all today’s problems but people like you think both those things are fantastic. They’re not. When I see social commentators on tv bleating about ‘poverty’ they are talking about 10 Romanians or Somalians crammed in a room in London, some of them probably here illegally, with cultural practices producing stay at home mums with loads of kids, some severely disabled due to consanguinous marriages, the fathers working cash in hand for family businesses and paying no tax. Not to mention ‘students’ who bring their whole families then never go home when their ‘studies’ are finished. I don’t feel sorry for them at all - THEY SHOULDN’T BE HERE.
She was also a marvelous extemporaneous orator. She expresses herself here in the most poetic way, without benefit of a speech writer or teleprompter.
oh hush....😂
I hope to meet Margaret Thatcher in heaven. Such a wonderful, eloquent lady. What her own MPs did to her, and a lot of the British people, stabbing her in the back, and celebrating her death, was macabre, and says everything about them.
rest assure u wouldn't cause maggie the cold hearted witch is slow burning in hell till eternity !
Britain could well do with her now.
She was backstabbed in the worst way.
lol She is exactly what we don't need now. She's the OPPOSITE of what we need.
@@MaterLacrymarum You have no idea. Get out of your cartoon-like fantasy life and back to reality. She's what we need now.
@@jrd3523Cartoon like fantasy? Did you think that up all by yourself? The tories have done more than enough to destroy the country, we don't need another idiot to tell us what we can have.
You do know why the Tories "back stabbed her"?
You may agree or not with late Mrs. T. But we got to admit that she stood by her ideas and believe was the best for the country. Nowadays politics seem to be a parody of what govern a country should be.
This reminds me of actress Noele Gordon, she wasn't just an actress, and soap star, she was on the board of ATV and contributed in a big way to getting ATV off the ground, she was very much in a world that was known as 'very much a man's world'. She worked for ATV for 26 years, including 17 of those in 'Crossroads', love the soap or hate it, she pulled in 15 plus million viewers, then in 1981 with no explanation she was told in a letter 'all good things come to an end'. Whether you liked Margaret Thatcher or not, and agreed or disagreed with her decisions, she was also in that 'very much a man's world'. One thing for sure, like her or dislike her, we have nothing like her now. Never known it like it is now, it's a mess to say the least. At least she always remained professional and had such great dignity. I remember a friend of mine once wrote to Margaret Thatcher, and he received the most beautiful letter back from her and a signed photograph.
Now a days pussy cat gets more attention in downing street
What a woman and amazing human. Her energy for positive change is infectious as is her radiance.
OMG.😳
Not many deceased PMs could boast that at their funeral they sang "DING DONG the WITCH is DEAD" In fact NONE in history were so hoorayed at their death. She was certainly "infectious" like Covid.
You are talking about Margaret Thatcher? There was only one thing that best describes her policies, Neo-Liberalism. Unfettered capitalism as it was in the 19th Century. You know, the century of child exploitation, slavery and disparity of wealth that Dickens wrote about. She turned the clock back, mercilessly. The Poll Tax would have finished her and the Tories but unfortunately they stabbed her in the back. To this day they only whisper about it behind closed doors, how close they came to revolution.
@@michael1345 stay mad commie
She was truly devastated...no one has ever been able to replace her .
Thank god and I'm an atheist. Ding dong, the witch is dead.
Thank god. What a demonic entity she was. Absolutely ruined this country
Nobody has ever come close.
She was drunk on her own power and could never imagine her own Party would back stab her. They can not replace her because she went for radical change, laid the path of social and economic destruction and there is nothing left for a tired Tory party but to do but to pull the tomb door back over the tomb. That is today's Britain.
госпожа Тэтчер так и не овладела дипломатическим искусством терпеть идиотов и дураков с улыбкой на устах . Но она обладала сильной волей, которая не давала её привести в замешательство, а напротив в большой политике она наносила молниеносный обезоруживающий удар ради своей страны и её жителей. Светлая память.
We need her now more than ever!
We don't.
@@Tashygay We do, we have had a generation of spineless politicians with no conviction or beliefs - we need a person like her to lead our country out of the mire.
@@thomashall4886 her policies and beliefs were abhorrent. It makes her strength irrelevant.
@@Tashygay Her policies and beliefs saved this country after socialism put the UK on its knees - she was a visionary for her time.
You might not know this but she’s dead
This was a politician with a spine. Nowadays almost all politicians would go over dead bodies just to stay in power. We live in a gross world now.
AND that is exactly why they got rid of her, to stay in power when she was going to introduce a Poll TAX. Pity, her "match" would have lit the fire. The Tories only mention it in hushed whispers, nervously looking over their shoulders.
Sadly I do not believe we have people like this today we are all absurdly dumbed down.
C'mon, we've got Lee Anderson and Johnathan Gullis 🥸
Thanks for uploading this. Wasn’t she amazing
She was
no, no she wasnt
No
No she was awful as her comments on the poll tax reveal, that tax nearly wrecked me as a low income worker. Thatcher and the Tories rode on the coat-tails of the Falklands victory from 1982 onwards, a victory purchased with the blood of British and Argentinian soldiers.
The devil you mean
We didn't realise what we had till we lost her, a great leader.
Oh dear, you really haven't experienced the hardship she caused and probably never will. However, I hope you do as a life lesson. No one learns better when their skin is in the game. She did, drunk on her power and against all advice tried to introduce a Poll Tax. She for the first time felt helpless, like the many whole communities she impoverished, as she was stabbed in the back by her own Party.
@@michael1345 33 years on... You still pay that poll tax without a whimper. Don't like it... Did nothing about it in 33 years. 🎉
I adored Margaret I will watch this later … positively. , . She was so brilliant , brilliant and clever I might never watch it
Many people in England still love her to now
Many more HATED her. No one goes to their grave with people cheering singing "Ding dong the witch is dead". That was unprecedented.
@@michael1345 What did she do for all this hate?
@@omaralaa2586 Better to ask why her own Party stabbed her in the back. What caused them to do that at the height of her power. Hint, Poll Tax and what that meant after her policies devastated WHOLE communities.
The truth always paves the path in the right direction, whether or not one doesn’t realise it at that moment, truth never fails. As they say all will work out for the better in the end.
She had a sense of humour, something none of the current lot have !
Oh I don't know. Boris was laughable. A clown let loose in the Parliament.
She was one of the most remarkable individuals to serve as Prime Minster in British history. Confident to a fault but a conviction politician.
Yeah, consider how low England has sunk ith her Tory successors.
My God - regardless of your politics you have to respect her upfront ness - she answers every question - not passively aggressively manipulating and closing down dialogue as does NZ pm adern for example. RIP Mrs Thatcher
Rotten woman no peace for those who ruin lives deliberately
@@bereal6590 is this true? I’m not British so I don’t know much of the background. Thanks for your response
@@MJ-qb5ph it's true, she crushed workers and privatised Britain's assets and changed the working class into just a number to make profits for the richer in society... She RUINED WHOLE area's of working class Britain STARTED the beginning of a narcissist revolution of IM better I'm greedy and I want more society. She basically paved the way for the state of Britain now of big corporations and the poor being poorer and an ever growing super rich. Anyone who says otherwise is one of the people it benefitted and who have very little empathy. Her reign also saw poorer areas have fewer resources such as decent schools. Britain COMPLETELY changed because of her and how she aligned herself with America who as we know is heavy into corporate greed super rich and elitism whilst having an underclass of those who are homeless or simply poor and can't even get healthcare
@@MJ-qb5ph depends on who you are. lefties hate her, right wing people call her “mummy” they like her very much. Controversial figure as she shut down British industry such as Coal Mines in Scotland leaving loads jobless. She lost power due to attempting to introduce a “poll tax” which would mean everyone would pay a set amount of tax each.
@@MJ-qb5ph No point asking someone if their opinion is true lmao - I certainly wouldn't agree, though.
She loved her country, loved her job and did it to push us forward as a nation, not to jump on a gravy train elsewhere.
The complete opposite of a career politician.
I don’t agree with everything she stood for but this country needs someone like her in charge right now.
Yep, no gravy train now for Britain. 69+ million people essentially having cut itself off from the 3rd largest World's economy.
@@michael1345 The EU is flatlining and has been for years, the US is outpacing everyone.
She pushed us back to the 30s
2 British Prime Ministers that stand out are : 1. Churchill 2. Margaret Thatcher ❤❤❤
Clement Atlee
Love or hate her politics, she was a true leader. Head and shoulders above the shower of crap we have seen since.
She was one of Great Britain's most consequential prime minister. Thatcher sought to bring back the values of self reliance, respect, and determination. Sadly for the U.K. Thatcher was undermined by elites who have done such damage to the country. Amazing woman.
Какая откровенность, какая вы молодец, всё-таки откровенно перед людьми, как это всё трудно, я понимаю подбирать слова, ну вот человек прям настоящая. Настоящая королева Великобритании, правда, потому что чувствуется и произношение совсем другое, и такое великолепие, такое. Ну чудо, ну не передать словами просто откровенный человек, дай бог вам здоровья и всего наилучшего, чтоб. У вас всегда в жизни было хорошо
A great example of character, dignity the rest is a matter of opinion
She boo hooooed in the end and she despised other women when they showed that quality. She finally felt some of the helplessness she caused to whole communities when they were made to feel that pain. It must have come as a great shock having stripped of her power by her own Party, helpless.
@@michael1345She loved Jimmy Saville though.
Such an extraordinary person, leader, and woman.
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I could tell the second this started she was in a quite vulnerable place must have been a very hard period in her life.
I found the interviewers penetrating questions insensitive and even bordering on disrespectful. However, she was more than able for them and her tears and beautiful smile only showed how much she loved our country.
Not as hard as the despair she caused whole Communities. She finally felt helpless like them, when her Party stabbed her in the back. Pity she was stabbed in the back before she could implement a Poll Tax. That would have woken up Britain earlier.
She was an amazing woman and amazing leader. Sadly I don’t think we will ever see a prime minister like her ever again.
Thank goodness.
11 and half years. What a fantastic Lady. God give her everlasting life. Amen 🇬🇧
She died 10 years ago 😂
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She is looking at Satan.
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The reference of God giving everlasting life is about an afterlife with God in heaven.
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Rishi Sunak - you'd learn a lot listening to this magnificent Lady.
She’s was evil.
She was a viscous, demonic cow. Your comment only shows that you must’ve been from comfortable middle class uk in the 80s. She pulled an entire industry out from underneath working families with zero safety net. She despised anyone who was poor and she made sure she created poverty.
@@thelaurels13 like your mothher....
@crispinbell9910 yes and we are back to being a near third world country now! thanks to Tory mismanagement and greed!!
@Grassy Sands I urge you to peruse the traits and behaviours that make up the profile of a psychopath. With your answer, you fit the bill. As you are from an entitled background and can never understand poverty or real life, I will wish you all you deserve and hope that whatever divine entity governs our existence sees that you reap precisely that which you sow.
Aren’t you happily free from the trauma that was 1980s Thatcherite britain.
Good to see more positive support for this hard working woman! Still the greatest politician we’ve ever had in my opinion
It’s amazing how far the Conservative Party have strayed from these conservative beliefs, especially her comments at the end
She was a evil witch
That's... Untrue. Politicians may have held themselves better back in the day but the current Tories are only continuing her ideology on steroids.
They are all totally infected with Socialism - thee most evil ideology in Earth history. ALL the universities since the 1990s changed from being academic into brainwashing Marxist indoctrination centres with Oxbridge and the other red bricks being especially bad - they just churn out activists not intellectuals, programmed to be triggered and respond like robots without any critical thinking ability. Worse most people of earlier generations who thought it was cool to wear che T shirts and be a rebel so support Socialism (without realising they were supporting evil, genocide, tyranny and elites that want to use and abuse the poor) would realise how misguided and idiotic they were once they got into the real world and started working. Trying to sort out your own life - career and problems then helping family, friends and community gives most people a reality check on their ego telling them they can build a Communist utopia and solve all the problems of the World. So in the past politicians would have had some life experience and work experiences to knock some sense into them. Politicians nowadays are career politicians - straight out of Oxbridge or some radical uni into an activist role in unions, media or parliament and then try to become an MP - result no common sense, no life experiences and out of touch with reality.
Peter Hitchens often comments in his interviews how he'll hear a supposed Tory or conservative from Millenials to Gen Z say things which are actually Marxist without even realising it! That's now fallen and corrupted the West and our politicians have become.
Thatcher wasn’t a Conservative but very much a liberal, and they have been economically and socially Blairite liberal ever since.
She was a RADICAL conservative. That is a very different beast.
One of a kind . Sorely missed today
I think she was so honest, stood for what she believed in. She worked hard..we sure don't have anything like that now
Mts Thatchervwas coming to the wyvern theatre one evening, I was to meet her but she was too ill to attend. I was gutted.
Whether you like her or not, she was always open and to the point … I miss that
Even as a lefty. I miss her, better than Cameron, Truss Boris May and Sunak.
@@jean-lucpicard5510 I'm not sure I'd call you a lefty if you prefer Thatcher over those. She annihilated any sense of spirit we had as a nation, any sense of industry, any sense of belonging and community. And all to favour big business...
Absolutely no comparison ....
What an amazing lady
She is sadly missed
What reason do you think so many folk hated Maggie Thatcher?
@@ChrisDWXX Ignorance plus we should not hate anyone
Not by me.
We will never be blessed again with such a passionate and great leader as her ❤ we need her today more than ever!
She’s reincarnated in the awful Suella Braverman
Passionate in the form of being resolute rather than passionate as in ''passionate''
@@planestrainsdogsncars4336 passionate in my view of always doing what she thought was best for the UK and being a great ally to America! Maggies bond with Ronald Reagan is what cemented our bond with the US and made us great allies x
@@davidlawel9747 usa isn't out ally, wake up fgs
@@davidlawel9747 @vetertee You mean a radical turning back of the clock with NEO LIBERALISM. The result was the 2008 economic collapse, the rise of Trumpism and the collapse of the Republican Party. . The collapse of Britain economically due to Brexit, a fervent wish of Thatcher who hated Europe. Imagine willfully chopping 69+ million people from the third largest economy in the World. Then The ONLY PM in British living memory that had protests at their funeral. An outpouring of disgust and hate. That says it all. "Ding Dong, the witch is dead"
I would never vote conservative but I feel like it wouldn't have been as straight forward a decision back when politicians actually were passionate about politics.
Margaret Thatcher was a strong, dignified, intelligent and pioneering women who had a vision for the country and its' citizens to prosper. Margaret was an era defining politician, although she is extremely polarising to this day I believe she deeply cared about the country.
She can't be both polarising and deeply caring for the Nation. We know why she was hated but she was supposedly PM for the whole nation. As one famous character in Pride and Prejudice said, Lady Lady Catherine de Bourgh "There is the deserving and the undeserving poor". Margaret was of that 19th Century school of thought along with Neo-Liberalism. A pity just over half of Britain are all Lady Catherines. Ridiculous, ignorant snobs.
The last of the great PM's In my opinion.
😇😇😇😇💙💙💙 rest in power margaret thatcher 1953-2016
@@fishboymanshark @vetertee She imagined a radical turning back of the clock with NEO LIBERALISM. The result was the 2008 economic collapse, the rise of Trumpism and the collapse of the Republican Party. . The collapse of Britain economically due to Brexit, a fervent wish of Thatcher who hated Europe. Imagine willfully chopping 69+ million people from the third largest economy in the World. Then The ONLY PM in British living memory that had protests at their funeral. An outpouring of disgust and hate. That says it all. "Ding Dong, the witch is dead" You have heard of the Poll Tax?
The rot started in 1997 and now in 2023 we're totally f**ked!
from 16:00 brilliant .. love it !!!!
All premierships end in defeat eventually. I wonder if she had any thoughts on how Callaghan felt 12 years earlier !
The last great Prime Minister Britain will ever have
No doubt about that as Brexit bites and 69+
million are stuck on an island having cut off the third biggest collective economy in the World and facing climate changes.
Ousting her in this way was the biggest mistake the Tories ever made
Her fall came after introducing one of the most unfair taxes.
I'm a liberal/left leaning, but I admire Thatcher as a leader because though I don't agree with many of her policies, I think she had strong convictions and fought for them even when they were politically unpopular. She was a paradigm shifting leader, and you have to respect that.
As was Hitler, totally committed and true to his beliefs which took a Nation down a very dark path. To add salt to that comparison which may seem extreme, she was a total supporter of Apartheid.
@michael1345 So by your logic, Winston Churchill = Hitler then, since Churchill also had strong convictions?
The best prime minister since Winston Churchill - a woman of principle and conviction with a true vocation to lead with passion and real strength
No, that was Clement Atlee.
The best PM Britian ever had. It has been downhill for Britain since she was forced out.
It’s gone downhill BECAUSE of what she and the clown cowboy did
Maggie... we miss you so bad...
She’s in a box 👍
@@OllieGrigg really?! ¬¬
Are you joking? Every issue we're facing in the UK right now links back to her ushering in the scam of the neoliberal economic model. Thatcherism ruined this country. I'll see her in hell.
A pity she was stabbed in the back by her own Party. A Poll Tax would have woken up the British people and the consequences of Neo Liberalism a lot earlier. Now it's 69+ million people who have just left the 3rd biggest economy in the World. She was a natural Brexiter, as she loathed Europe. How is that all going for you?
She’s unique in the world history! Not only the Best all! She’s unique!!! May the Almighty God give the World a political leader like her ! Thanks to the whole people of England , we owe so much to her! Thanks a lot!
Amazing candor and gravitas.
Yes, indeed.
Very strong politician reminds me a lot of Nancy Polosi. She would have been horrified by Brexit.
Brave lady who made popular and unpopular decisions....which is open to interpretation; whether they were good or not.
She was instrumental in changing the world.
For sure in the collapse of the USSR.
Early signs of seemingly Alzheimer's here.
What was so appealing to me was her comments about Dennis Skinner.
An extreme left opponent of hers.
She still had the grace to call him a marvellous parliamentarian. Even though she was so upset.
It's really not "✨open to interpretation ✨", she was fucking awful and made disgusting choices that were so far beyond morality that any random jobber on the street could have done better. She didn't want to do good, she wanted to set-in-stone the downfall of the UK without burning-out Neoliberalism's public-appeal in a single government.
How was Dennis Skinner "extreme left"?
Oh yes change the world indeed when her advocacy of Neo-liberal policies were adopted around the World, with the help of Reagan' s"trickle down" economics That has led to the disparity of wealth NEVER seen in human history. Perhaps the Gilded Age or the Ancient Pharaohs. We are now watching democracy being challenged in both countries with no certain outcome.
All went downhill from here, a brief peak in our otherwise political trough from WW2. If she hadn't pressed on with Poll Tax, she would have been more influential throughout the 90s.
I defo don't agree with her political views but no doubt she loved her country!and tried what she thought was her best for it...
Many would disagree with me, however. The one thing we need now to sort out this weak government is another Margaret Thatcher, someone is proud to be British and not pandering to idiots. If this government does not take a stand now, we will lose this country's identity within 2 years.
A great prime minister in a country where far too many wanted everything for free. The only difference now is that there are leaders who will oblige freeloaders.
They still do. She fought against the EU and look how that has ended up n
We know why she was hated but she was supposedly PM for the whole nation. As one famous character in Pride and Prejudice said, Lady Lady Catherine de Bourgh "There is the deserving and the undeserving poor". Margaret was of that 19th Century school of thought along with Neo-Liberalism. A pity just over half of Britain are still all Lady Catherines. Ridiculous, ignorant snobs.
So ironic that the "feminists" don't give this woman credit for being the first woman to break the glass ceiling in UK politics.
All because they don't agree with her politics. If she was an abortion loving socialist they would be hosting tributes to her reign as PM.
Great interview. She grabbed the reigns of leadership with both hands and articulate points quite well. We could use similarly skilled people like that today here in the US.
You did. You had Obama.
You'll never have politicians of this quality ever again, UK. Diversity will be your end.
If she is the measure, that is a very sad indictment.
Heseltine caused it all. And even before during after Brexit and even now he is still a massive thorn on Tory’s backside. He won’t be missed when it’s all over for him.
Not by a lot. But he is a character and so much more interesting than Cameron or sunak.
Jesus. All I want to do right now is leave everything, go back to college, and have nothing to do but spend all of my time researching again and writing a paper about her policies. Hail to the Iron Lady.
Very rare to see the Iron Lady emotional like she is in this interview.
Only time the witch ever was was when she lost. Never an ounce of emotion from her self centred nut job otherwise
@@bereal6590 That's as maybe but it was still surprising to see her tearful here as she was usually so strong and in control.
@@kevinlongman007 she was crying for herself because she finally got pushed out
but it's that emotion that made her Iron!
@@leeoconnor123 No that would make her rust!
she reminded me of my ESL teacher MS. JONES
Sad this lady destroy the industrial economy. Now UK is only a shopping mall .
I'd have loved her to be in charge during the Banking Crisis in 2009.
Wonder if she'd have let them all go to prison and not bailed them out....
And have no economy. Still don’t get what that was all about, huh?
@@bmbutler2 you can still have an economy if you put corrupt bankers in prison...
@@Canthatcrazy If they were all put into prison and their companies closed like the Lehman Brothers, founded in 1850, there would be no banking at that investment level. THAT was the dilemma. Too big to fail, was the plea. She would NEVER have done that, like Hoover, she would have waited for the markets to stabilise, so much faith she had in the markets and little capacity to admit Neo-Liberalism had failed. She was also a natural for Brexit and we know how that has gone. She hated Europe as well as unions.
There was some controversy about the community charge (Poll Tax)? really?? only some controversy? That tax that had the country rioting in the streets?
She was the finest PM that the UK ever had, and the last one to actually have a political platform. Every PM since has been all about expediency.