Paul Heaton on reflects on the death of Thatcher

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  • @keithkelly9099
    @keithkelly9099 2 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Very articulate in his views and speaking. Didn't rise to the interviewer asking stupid questions. Despite his massive success in the music industry he always kept very humble and down to earth.

    • @maxwellmoore8424
      @maxwellmoore8424 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why has he passed 😢

    • @borisos9832
      @borisos9832 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You mean he didn't lower to the interviewer..?

    • @Jamie-js3qw
      @Jamie-js3qw ปีที่แล้ว

      they were good questions!

    • @williamwilliam5066
      @williamwilliam5066 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I would say, surprisingly inarticulate.

  • @andypitchless
    @andypitchless 2 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    No idea why TH-cam has decided to show me this now in 2022. But I'll glad it did.
    Respect to Mr Heaton.

    • @maxwellmoore8424
      @maxwellmoore8424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm same ,but agreed with every word he said .

    • @daveco4645
      @daveco4645 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Concur

    • @maxwellmoore8424
      @maxwellmoore8424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      YEAH MATE

    • @dtrueblue6322
      @dtrueblue6322 ปีที่แล้ว

      We love Maggie in ulster but you idiots in GB didn’t know when you’re well off. Hard working miners my arse.. hair cut 100 (Scargill) ruined our mining industry. And! If any of you hypocrites disagree I bet I know what line you’d be in for your cheap fuel.. including this mouth-piece, you wouldn’t pay an extra 50p if you could get ir from China cheaper. This guy another champagne socialist worst of the worst.

  • @stevensmith3327
    @stevensmith3327 6 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Good for Heaton! He didn't fold, he didn't backpedal, he didn't fall for that "Don't speak ill of the dead stuff."

  • @gazjonze
    @gazjonze 10 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    Could listen to Paul Heaton all day, great man.

    • @john111257
      @john111257 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      yea so right

    • @scottflannigan3062
      @scottflannigan3062 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Never knew he was a left winger never heard him speak maybe down to my ingnorance, but good on him wish their was alot more of him

    • @peterburry3553
      @peterburry3553 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@scottflannigan3062 Me neither... I was oblivious to his political views until fairly recently but now I'm wishing he's gone into politics.

  • @GlynBarlow67
    @GlynBarlow67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Absolutely love this guy, Housemartins, Beautiful South, solo stuff and with the amazing Jaqui Abbott.

  • @stephenjones529
    @stephenjones529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    God bless Paul Heaton, a truly great Britain

  • @keithlarmour5510
    @keithlarmour5510 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Brilliant paul...best songwriter of our years..but also u speak for US x

  • @bigfanofrj
    @bigfanofrj 10 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Paul, I always thought that you were legend. I have just come across this interview. You are an absolute legend.

    • @jbri1
      @jbri1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You could be legend too

  • @Kk99921
    @Kk99921 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Never seen this till today but today Paul Heaton you have just gained a subscriber

  • @1001space
    @1001space 9 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    well said paul love your music

  • @ToxicBATjizz
    @ToxicBATjizz 10 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Good on him. He must be worth a few quid these days but he hasn't changed his politics, he hasn't forgotten his roots. Hasn't sold out. Which is nice

    • @philvirco6762
      @philvirco6762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He’s worth about £4million.

    • @burtpearce1251
      @burtpearce1251 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It's easy being a socialist when you're poor but fair play to him he divides his royalties equally with his band. And he's a fantastic song writer

    • @andyd2528
      @andyd2528 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      His roots are in Hull , Yorkshire.
      He now lives in Manchester , Lancashire.

    • @franko1174
      @franko1174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@andyd2528 very posh boy pretending that he's working class 😂🤣

    • @billysequins
      @billysequins 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      His roots being the picturesque little village of Chipstead in Surrey

  • @benperry9608
    @benperry9608 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    So much truth in what Paul say. He's a National treasure.

  • @graemeloftus3831
    @graemeloftus3831 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Paul you are my hero always will be stay safe stay strong

  • @sonijimm
    @sonijimm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    I spoke to Paul Heaton on the phone in my old customer service job and he was a top bloke. Even scored my call a perfect 10 in the customer survey

    • @starsailor9774
      @starsailor9774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Did he put in brackets "12"

    • @glenhughes8013
      @glenhughes8013 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@starsailor9774 nice 🙂

    • @crumplezone1
      @crumplezone1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Better than a poor poor 4 knockin at your door :)

    • @stevendecube2832
      @stevendecube2832 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did he keep a little 2 for you

    • @christianbaughn199
      @christianbaughn199 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Were you "sweet 16"?

  • @domoreilly5147
    @domoreilly5147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Top man. Top speaker. Huge respect for you, Paul.

  • @drinkingup2157
    @drinkingup2157 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Looking back with hindsight from 2024 , right on the mark there Paul

  • @johnmcluskey
    @johnmcluskey 10 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    He's telling the truth and is bang on about Cameron representing the banking class.

  • @johnrider5701
    @johnrider5701 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Well said Paul I couldn't have put it better myself. 👏

  • @el_Wordo
    @el_Wordo 11 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Paul Heaton is legend. Up the Blades!

  • @flasheart3817
    @flasheart3817 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    He used to live in my city of Hull n used to drink in a proper working class pub near where he lived. Last week he gave £1000 each to to 60 pubs (3 of them in Hull) to put behind the bar for the locals to have a beer on him to celebrate his 60th birthday. Say's it all about a man who never forgets his roots, whereas the Tory pigs in a trough wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

    • @sureshot8399
      @sureshot8399 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Don't know much about the bloke beyond his music but he absolutely comes across as a top geezer.

    • @Eleventhearlofmars
      @Eleventhearlofmars 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I would be very interested to hear how he feels about the current labour government and if he views them as a uniparty and actually worse than the predecessors?!

  • @davidyoung8997
    @davidyoung8997 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    He is spot on here. I lived through her governments as a school leaver (1979), student, and someone looking for work then emigrating (1988). Horrible times. I never look back on my 20s fondly, they were at times really dire. I feel sad for her that she suffered dementia, as I feel sad for anyone so robbed. But she, and her acolytes, really didn't give much of a damn about how their policies trashed swathes of the country; and being from Lanarkshire I saw that directly. She owed her electoral success to the fragmentation of the political opposition, winning elections with slightly more than 40% of the popular vote; essentially always the case with the Tories in my lifetime. The catastrophic state of the UK owes much to an electoral system that in no way reflects popular will, but rather cronyism and plutocracy.

    • @issyjas3309
      @issyjas3309 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You forgot the wholesale sell off of nationalised industries and financial institutions. Sold for a bribe of a measly few hundred pounds per customer and then followed by deregulation. Not for us having a sovereign wealth fund from oil profits like Norway, no far better squandered in the illusion of tax cuts. She was a vile uncaring immoral woman, dementia was a kindness.

    • @billysequins
      @billysequins 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You expressed it better than him

    • @andylane247
      @andylane247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      An excellent post.
      She always boasted about only needing a few hours of sleep a night. That may have brought on the early onset dementia.

    • @MrGoneTroppo
      @MrGoneTroppo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There's another side to the story always though - I just about remember being on holiday with my parents in Majorca when she was elected and all the young couples with kids had a huge party - we weren't rich, but they had some hope that all their cash wouldn't be taken away just for working hard. Bloody middle classes. Anyway, weren't you in her government Lord Young? 🙃

    • @billysequins
      @billysequins 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@MrGoneTroppo if you were holidaying abroad in 1979 then relatively speaking you were rich so stop kidding yourself- poor people work hard too

  • @NoelDaly-hf2cz
    @NoelDaly-hf2cz หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Always speaks up for ordinary working decent people

  • @gordonharkness2101
    @gordonharkness2101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Full respect to Paul Heaton,spoke for me.

    • @davidprovan5650
      @davidprovan5650 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not me.

    • @billyt5657
      @billyt5657 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@davidprovan5650thatchers in a box

  • @arthurthistlewood1225
    @arthurthistlewood1225 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Always admired this guy. I'm also old enough to remember the devastation Thatcher caused to many peoples' lives in the 80s, she did it with relish, what a cruel and vindictive woman. She started the process which has led to the mess UK society is now. Keep sticking to your principles Paul.

    • @brian7193
      @brian7193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mrs Thatcher left most of Britain especially Scotland and north of England in a hell of a mess she simply didn't give a damn about them as they didn't vote for her,and with the exception of the millionaires the whole country is suffering again due to utility companies greed,the govt have been told by the energy companies how to help fix it it said no cos it meant taxing the rich instead of picking on the poor which this govt seen to enjoy doing,

    • @myoctobersymphony4446
      @myoctobersymphony4446 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thatcher did nothing wrong.

    • @ab4113
      @ab4113 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just wait to you see how kim Jong Starmer will leave this country, Thatcher will be viewed as a saint after this

  • @anjkhar6064
    @anjkhar6064 8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Thank god for this type of guy!

    • @Xtramentalstencilist
      @Xtramentalstencilist 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Anj Khar What? Someone who hates Thatcher? It's not people who hate Thatcher are hard to find.

    • @anjkhar6064
      @anjkhar6064 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Enwogamwirion True - she was a prize arsehole after all!

    • @natejohnsonesqubar4201
      @natejohnsonesqubar4201 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Anj Khar is thick

  • @brian7193
    @brian7193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have Always liked the guy's music but now I have nothing but the utmost respect for the guy everything he said was spot on and also respect for not taking the bait from the reporter,

  • @door2yourheart
    @door2yourheart 11 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Very eloquently expressed Paul!

  • @maguiresam8909
    @maguiresam8909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Didn't think was possible to love Paul anymore but ...he keeps raising the bar ✊

    • @anneliamohara2842
      @anneliamohara2842 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fair play to Paul remember those days from Dublin living in the States now . Loved the Beautiful South !

    • @maguiresam8909
      @maguiresam8909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Talented (and modest) boy. Remember Norman Cook saying "this is the wrong way round" when Paul was asked to present Norman an Ivor Novello ...Paul has never got one 🤨

  • @deanfinnie4701
    @deanfinnie4701 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Heaton's voice is as relevant today as back at the time of the Miner's strikes

  • @dylanmcgowan3932
    @dylanmcgowan3932 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Paul always carries himself with dignity and class.
    Lesson to us all when it comes to political debates

  • @seanwheeldon9315
    @seanwheeldon9315 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The man's a legend

  • @yootooberwosere
    @yootooberwosere 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I have a lot of respect for you and I’m pleased you’re a northerner :)

  • @nodtripRS
    @nodtripRS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Always spoke as he sees things. Total respect for Mr Heaton.

  • @kdlofty
    @kdlofty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Absolutely spot on Paul.

  • @PlasticGirl65
    @PlasticGirl65 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Why did I not see this before! Paul is a legend.

  • @JohnsysChannel
    @JohnsysChannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just doing my annual checkup on this video. Need a refresher in its brilliance every now and again

    • @staffh3815
      @staffh3815 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yea 1st viewing ❤ Paul's knows his onion's 😂

  • @TheGodParticle
    @TheGodParticle 9 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Paul used to work for a company where my mum ran the canteen before he was famous. She said he came in and told her that he was leaving to pursue a career in music, she tried to talk him out of it saying he had a good job with the print company, but he left regardless, anyway the company went down the pan a year later lols.

    • @paulheatonofficial
      @paulheatonofficial  5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      What was her name, I'm sure i might remember her?

    • @companyman111
      @companyman111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@paulheatonofficial i watched this clip years ago live and, thinking about what's happened in the last few weeks, it popped into my head tonight having listened to some of your songs. your music has been a great help as i've licked my post-election wounds. cheers for being one of the things that, 15 years ago, led me down the intellectual path i'm now on.

    • @ennesshay5040
      @ennesshay5040 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      'Are we heading for an early election ?' - th-cam.com/video/U0L6Out1Gmk/w-d-xo.html + 'Bojo's Election Bill Power grab' th-cam.com/video/MWwWwk0RHRA/w-d-xo.html [by A Different Bias] plus 'A Decade of the Tories' th-cam.com/video/MjUWX6S8iYU/w-d-xo.html [by Jonathan Pie]

    • @anneliamohara2842
      @anneliamohara2842 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sound Man Paul greetings from New Jersey ! From a Dublin man living here now always liked your music !

    • @davidfoster8318
      @davidfoster8318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @TheGodParticle 2 years after being asked, there's no answer. The people want to know!

  • @16brooking10
    @16brooking10 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love and respect top top man

  • @lisagwynne6190
    @lisagwynne6190 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Absolutely spot on, well said Paul.

  • @Graeme726
    @Graeme726 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Love Paul Heaton, great singer, songwriter and all round human being

  • @mattwilliams5386
    @mattwilliams5386 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Good on him....well done Paul. Tell it like it was 👍🏾👍🏾

  • @Mozphil42
    @Mozphil42 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The interview couldn t have shown less interest in Paul s opinion.
    Paul was spot on with his usual articulate manner.
    A great talent and a wonderful human being.

  • @lalalepus
    @lalalepus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow....amazing... bravo Paul.

  • @bazza5699
    @bazza5699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    what a legend

  • @davidfellows1650
    @davidfellows1650 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I loved that the Billy Elliott musical in London didn't cancel the performance on the day she died. The musical that included the song with the lyrics, "Happy Xmas Maggie Thatcher, may God's love be with you, we all celebrate today, because it's 1 day closer to your death" Brilliant.

  • @PP-ez9hd
    @PP-ez9hd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well done Paul , you kept your cool , and you definitely look like the best man here

  • @oliveroneill1388
    @oliveroneill1388 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic Paul. Your a true people's man

  • @henrikrdstherchristie9553
    @henrikrdstherchristie9553 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    One of my dearest concert memories is seeing The Housemartins at Sardines Club in Oslo in november 1986. It was a mere month after Thatcher had visited Oslo, to giant street demonstrations and tabloid headlines back in the UK: «Riots ruin Oslo visit» (The Daily Mail), «Few friends for Thatcher in Norway» (The Sunday Times). Paul Heaton thanked the audience for the "welcome" Thatcher had receiced in our city, and dedicated a song for The Iron Lady. I believe it was the B-side of the brilliant Sheep-single: Drop down dead. Fantastic band.

    • @englanduk6131
      @englanduk6131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sadly for you and Heaton, his and obviously your opinions weren't concurred with by the general public in the UK.... Maggie won election after election so stick your opinion where the sun don't shine pal.... 🥱

    • @GG-ml3vr
      @GG-ml3vr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@englanduk6131 Voting tory still sitting well with you is it bud?

    • @secondtimearound2539
      @secondtimearound2539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@englanduk6131 The 'general public' you speak of included the millions who hated her guts and loudly sang 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead'. Encouraged greed (look where that has got us), divided and ruined society, caused a war (Falklands) to boost her flagging popularity, set our police force on the miners at Orgreave for her own revenge, knighted Savile the paedophile, was friends with despicable tyrants such as Pinochet. You can stick your opinion up your jacksy too, 'pal'.

    • @secondtimearound2539
      @secondtimearound2539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@GG-ml3vr I've given up even giving a shit about those who insist on voting Tory now; if they're too stupid to understand that a vote for the Tries is a vote against themselves, then bad cess to them, they've had long enough to have learned their lesson.

    • @englanduk6131
      @englanduk6131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@GG-ml3vr, totally!.. Imagine loony Labour in power? Terrifying!!!

  • @samuelhutchison8433
    @samuelhutchison8433 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just a great human being.

  • @Mozphil42
    @Mozphil42 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The interviewer couldn t care less on Paul s opinion.
    Paul was spot on as usual in his articulate manner.
    A great talent and wonderful human being.

  • @michaelobrien9825
    @michaelobrien9825 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well done Paul heaton your clever enough not to let yourself down and proved it here all those years ago.

  • @samgormley6368
    @samgormley6368 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Well said sir, they expected you to be so different more aggressive but you read them so easily and conducted yourself superbly… always a pleasure…

  • @keltacuk8112
    @keltacuk8112 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good lad!....Very well put across.

  • @welshlad6427
    @welshlad6427 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Well said Paul 👏👏

  • @220274mark
    @220274mark 10 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    what paul is trying to say is she was a fucking nightmare and killed off the working class

  • @scottroberts7875
    @scottroberts7875 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Happy new year from Somerset. love you then , love you now.. All the very best to you and yours . Scott

  • @MattCrawley_Music
    @MattCrawley_Music 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's 2022 and little has changed

  • @davidmcque627
    @davidmcque627 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Well said Paul!

  • @waynewalker8227
    @waynewalker8227 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well spoken Mr Heaton. Bless ya!!

  • @peterwaldie4478
    @peterwaldie4478 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Superb lad.
    Always be proud of where your from.
    The vile thatcher won't be missed by any decent person

    • @davidprovan5650
      @davidprovan5650 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well she won elections, didn't she. Must have appealed to a lot of people at the time.

  • @Pizzpott
    @Pizzpott 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Well done to Mr. Heaton. Elvis Costello also had it right in the title of his song about this monster, 'Stomp The Dirt Down', Chris Rea in 'Gonna Buy A Hat too. Seems these musicians had some sense after all. She was a monster and she is not missed. I didn't shed one bloody tear, neither did anyone anywhere near here.

  • @johnmckay805
    @johnmckay805 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My new hero ...true honest man
    ...not many about .......thanks Paul for having the back of all working class people 👏....I salute you .....

    • @garethhammond5478
      @garethhammond5478 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's not working class , you need to have your own back lol

  • @HomegrownRecCo
    @HomegrownRecCo 11 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Good stuff Paul, a well expressed case of what's wrong in our present political landscape. Pity they cut you off when you were just getting going! Looks like the media are as good at smoothing over all the cracks as much as mr. cameron is :)

    • @simonedgbaston
      @simonedgbaston 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🎸 Asolutely especially Sky & the BBC also most of the UK print media 🕊

  • @maxwellmoore8424
    @maxwellmoore8424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Spot on Mr Heaton 👏 100% agree .

  • @tonyclifton2230
    @tonyclifton2230 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Didn't think I could think less of thatcher. But after this. There you go.

  • @mccann444
    @mccann444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Paul Heaton . Great interview , honest and Heart Felt Answers .
    Conservative’s Cameron included “ Shower of Shite “ all of them

  • @LennyJohnson5
    @LennyJohnson5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Paul Heaton is a good guy.

  • @JungleAcid303
    @JungleAcid303 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That guys a genius on all fronts

  • @thenewhighpriestofjupiter6305
    @thenewhighpriestofjupiter6305 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was today old when i first saw this. I couldnt love him anymore if i tried

  • @watcyagonado6770
    @watcyagonado6770 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    JUST CAME ACROSS THIS INTERVIEW PAUL HEATON FANTASTIC SINGER AND FANTASTIC POLITICAL SPEAKER 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯

  • @fredh1720
    @fredh1720 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    "on a day like today I'm not gonna mention the alcoholic husband, the racist daughter or the prison-bound son" LMAO

    • @alba9507
      @alba9507 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Sheer class by Mr Heaton lol 🤣

    • @richardbarker5412
      @richardbarker5412 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Class, so funny, intelligent guy, great music, keep it going 👍

    • @jefflugg7815
      @jefflugg7815 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YES.That was funny as fuck..well done Mr Heaton..🤣🤣

  • @leehaslam5871
    @leehaslam5871 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Now if he was the Head of the labour party, I would vote for him. He tried to give his music away insupport of renationalisation, his whole back catalogue, said he had enough money. So he put his money where his mouth was... the government ignored him. The guy is a legend and Thatcher not only destroyed the miners etc, her party and philosophy of greed has poisoned these waters of the old British soul forever more.

    • @andyd2528
      @andyd2528 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Labour were the first to take away the bulk of school milk.
      Labour closed more mines than Thatcher ever did.
      Read your history.

    • @leehaslam5871
      @leehaslam5871 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God bless u too

    • @ScoundrelDaysSon
      @ScoundrelDaysSon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@andyd2528 What disingenuous nonsense. 'The bulk' vs. all . . . A significant difference, one imagines. Unless your argument is that Labour didn't stop it for enough children. Talking free school milk from those that need it was an indicator in '71 of just what kind of premier she'd be.
      As to mine closures: Labour closed small mines, and mines that had run dry, whilst expanding production in others. That's why folks don't 'blame' them for the decimation of an industry and community.
      It isn't a Tory thing either: under Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Home, and Heath pits were closed but usually only smaller pits, with an eye to keeping the coal business both afloat and sustainable - that's why no-one blames them either.
      Thatcher's mine closures, by comparison, happened alongside mass unemployment (highest since pre-war), after an enormous recession, happened quickly, and happened to big, profitable pits with large communities. That's why she's remembered in the way that she is and no other Tory PM, or Labour PM before her is. Never mind that fuel independence was lost, with us importing coal from Poland - keeping polish miners working instead, that it was used as a wedge to destroy the union movement, that she had sent in police to attack miners, and all that was against a backdrop of mass privatisation of companies that the public had already paid for.
      That's without looking at her numerous other 'achievements' as PM under the influence of big business that were explicitly against the interests of UK taxpayers, or her personal friendship with, and support for, right wing fascist leaders, aswell.
      Odious woman. Odious family. Odious beliefs. Odious government. Odious policies.

    • @andyd2528
      @andyd2528 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ScoundrelDaysSon Oooooooh !!!
      I hope that you and you lefty ideals are thoroughly offended and upset.
      Please send me a pint of your left wing , communist tears.
      Fuck it. Send me a gallon because I'm very thirsty.
      If Labour had stayed in power through the 80s this country would have become Zimbabwe.
      We were already called the sick man of Europe.
      Kinnock etc would have put us in a coma on life support.
      Labour can't run a bath , let alone a country.
      Good luck with your current bunch.
      Abbott , Rayner , Butler , Captain Hindsight/Hypocrite.
      Lammy , Lord Adonis.
      Jonathan dickhead, shadow health .
      Worst opposition ever.

    • @borisjohnson535
      @borisjohnson535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@andyd2528 she closed them for ideology mate . She also loved a dictator and she funded death squads in Northern Ireland

  • @johnmeechan4976
    @johnmeechan4976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent sentiments from one of the good guys

    • @robsilvester3068
      @robsilvester3068 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Typical lefty snowflake

    • @frankevans4323
      @frankevans4323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@robsilvester3068 He's not just a lefty snowflake, he's a middle class, rich lefty snowflake.

  • @mavismcdavis
    @mavismcdavis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yes, Paul Heaton. Yes.

  • @songforbro
    @songforbro 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The tone and phrasing of “Coca~Cola’ at the end of that response always makes me laugh. 😂 2:50

  • @alexbolland1904
    @alexbolland1904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Total respect paul a real decent man

  • @richmcnab8925
    @richmcnab8925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    What a legend Paul is.

  • @oo-ww2qy
    @oo-ww2qy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just love this man he has a way with words and put it just how it was bk then proper hull bloke

  • @stevosd60
    @stevosd60 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Still powerful statement in 2024. Good on him 👍

  • @briz1965
    @briz1965 10 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    well said Paul. I remember watching the TV 1981 at 16 shitting myself seeing the number of job losses per week, thousands, and she smiled through it all. I went to London for the last miners march and it was a real sad affair as I can recall. Split the Country up - terrible.

    • @revol148
      @revol148 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      briz1965 the Labour party threw hundreds of thousands on the dole in the late 1970's, the labour government closed many pits in the late 1970's, nuclear war was just as likely in the 1970's as it was in the 1980's - the fact that everything seems to get pinned on Thatcher must do the dead women's ego no end of a boost!

    • @peteroneill2991
      @peteroneill2991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@revol148 More Tory lies unemployment early 70's 4% rising to 5.5% in 1978/79 there was a major worldwide recession in mid 70's. 1984 official figures 12% not counting the tory fiddles to lower it. Employment coal industry 1973 251,800 1979 241,600. 1990 4,000.

    • @peteroneill2991
      @peteroneill2991 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Mike Rauch I am a billionaire THIS IS A FACT or shit my bank account has not grown. It is easy to claim something as fact could you provide figures and dates.

    • @ayrshireman1314
      @ayrshireman1314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@peteroneill2991 1964- 70 and 74-79 Labour and Wilson/Callaghan closed 270 pits, Tories and Thatcher/Major/heath closed 237 between 70-74 and 79 and 97. Wilson closed more mines than she did. Even the Socialist Worker in 1985 called what Lab/Wilson did a national disgrace. But cuddly pipe smoking Harold closing more than evil Maggie does not fit the narrative.

    • @peteroneill2991
      @peteroneill2991 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ayrshireman1314 Thanks for providing actual dates and numbers will get back to you.

  • @DrunkChimp
    @DrunkChimp หลายเดือนก่อน

    Paul Heaton is an absolute Legend.

  • @stevenroberts8818
    @stevenroberts8818 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    First time seeing this. Always loved his music, now love the guy himself even more. Just radiates intelligence and authenticity.

  • @markstarkey5940
    @markstarkey5940 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Well said lad!!!!

  • @jordanhenley1286
    @jordanhenley1286 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Would love an update x

  • @Bluenose-mx5ej
    @Bluenose-mx5ej 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She has a lot to answer for. The part that selling off affordable council housing played in the current housing crisis should not be ignored.

  • @elixirix
    @elixirix 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the garden worm comment was lovely...he certainly doesn´t hold back

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well spoken Paul. The interviewer isn't even listening.

  • @markgreet3543
    @markgreet3543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Paul legend loved the housemartains

  • @mikee7406
    @mikee7406 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Very end of the clip when they cut him off and mute his 🎤 says absolutely everything about Skynews and its role in society

    • @Dermot2927
      @Dermot2927 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bit silly of them to have him on if that's how they felt about him?

  • @Clagnuts
    @Clagnuts 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the end of the video. From Thatcher to toenail fungus, a seamless transition if ever I saw one.

  • @stephenbrown1867
    @stephenbrown1867 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It really was happy hour when Maggie snuffed it.

  • @bluewibbo
    @bluewibbo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never seen this before. Well said Paul Heaton.

  • @Wanderingdayo
    @Wanderingdayo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love you Paul!

  • @yvonneshelton2505
    @yvonneshelton2505 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amen Sir Heaton

  • @eddierocket7613
    @eddierocket7613 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Paul 100% agree with what you said brilliant 👍

  • @jimmorrison2657
    @jimmorrison2657 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Has he got any opinion on Becky Thatcher, from The adventures of Tom Sawyer?

  • @miles-thesleeper-monroe8466
    @miles-thesleeper-monroe8466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love it Paul. Subscribed

  • @jongibirdi1394
    @jongibirdi1394 ปีที่แล้ว

    All the time in the world for Paul and people like him.hes consistently said the same thing and could quite easily lay back with the money he's made and have a nice easy life,but he keeps speaking.

  • @clairemcmahon9392
    @clairemcmahon9392 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We celebrated in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 .

  • @ayatollahofarocknrolla403
    @ayatollahofarocknrolla403 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    After the 1989 ashes someone painted on a London wall " Thatcher Out"... someone else painted underneath it " LBW bowled Alderman"