When Thatcher died, I was backpacking in New Zealand and the radio station 'The Rock' made this comment about the funeral: "It was the first time in history that the soldiers fired into the coffin and not in the air" Wicked sense of humour those Kiwis :oD
Funny as well as factual....thats funny...unless your a miner...which I was...then it's a painful kind of funny...just like getting hit with a truncheon from a police officer in a clown mask.
@@jamesritchie7821 The third person was just Charles. The reference is to the Bashir interview with Diana where she says there were three people in the marriage i.e. her, Charles, and Camilla.
Thatcher's dead so she's off my list of politicians to burn in effigy. Jacob Rees-Mogg however is getting on my wick. Posh twat with one foot in the upper class and the other in fucking Narnia.
Someone (awesome) was uploading the 'Cunk on Britain' series here on YT as it aired. Judging by Scott McKenzie's link, it's still up :) apologies, can't recall the name of the account.
"Anyone could get rich, providing they had loads of spare money already." Ohhhh the feels. Thank goodness for comedy for setting reality's stupidity plain.
You'll hear a different opinion from those who went weeks without power because some people were refusing to do their jobs. Imagine if you couldn't charge your phone or watch TV because some people had decided they weren't showing up to work this week
I was more concerned with the people turning up and not doing their job properly rather than those fighting for their jobs. The only power cuts I recall from the 80's were because of 'heavy snow' and 'infrastructure issues'. One of which lasted two weeks.
Lee I wasn't around then, just asked my parent their personal opinion, which I just repeated above. I'm aware the truth will be somewhere between the two "extremes", one of which was presented in this clip
Well it's a mockumentary style so being even-handed isn't really helpful to good comedy I guess. The power cuts hurt my Button Moon viewing, which was the true tragedy.
AdzSONLINE surely it's Thatcher's mistake for essentially wiping out the job security of those workers who provide the country power in essential industries?
The electricity going out was in the 1970's, which happened under both a Labour and Conservative government. The point is that after closing the mines, thereby destroying many local economies and gutting trade unions, she and the Conservatives didn't provide an alternative, causing many places destroyed by her to remain awful for decades and losing any economic/government benefit they mentioned. The best solution would have been a gradual change to different work but Thatcher considered trade unions and much of the working class "the enemy within" and was motivated to cause damage not change for political reasons.
