@@adolflenin4973 well she believed in tax cuts to businesses and millionaires, but thought that poor people should look after themselves rather than having social programs to help them with housing, education, healthcare etc
@@daleparfitt7243 I'd rather be a prick and responsible for improving access to wealth then be accepted by everyone and responsible for a decrease in the standard of living.
Such an enthralling woman to watch and listen to. There has been no other politician like her or as effective as her in the three decades since she left office.
When I listen to this interview , I look at a once great Prime Minister and listening to how essential it is to pronounce words correctly. The intonation and the words to choose. And oh yes some history there. Thank you for uploading this program.
@@karnold2807 Well you obviously live in a castle, are very rich and think the working class are scum, I myself think the working class are scum, they voted in Hitler and Maggie, two leaders who then proceeded to dismantle their own country. You can’t blame one person though, they need self serving idiots to do their bidding,, thus! The working class are scum!
@@thetruth156real3 hardly the economy was in a better place when she left by popularity she’s our best non wartime prime minister the coal industry was doomed when she sold them off anyway
She was a great leader and absolutely brilliant. The foolish leaders of today worldwide, are all about consensus and waffling about and getting nothing meaningful done sadly.
@@boulevard14 she broke a nation of working men a there family's she herself was a grouccers daughter working class people are great Britain or was that's why this once great land of soldiers nurses army navy ground troops a are now on asses
Negative and cruel comments on Margaret Thatcher from people so accustomed to government control,handouts or union control and negotiation,or leftist academia and media ideology that they cannot stand on the own two feet and take initiative.And I’m not talking about the aged, ill or severely disadvantaged. The people who negate self improvement by not focusing on education,work at hand and positive positioning of self to make progress in their lives and who expect some entity to rescue them are the millstone on society.
Fascinating to watch Margaret Thatcher speaking now with the benefit of 25 years hindsight. She was certainly very sharp and had a very clear idea of what she believed in....how many politicians can you say that about now?
I've felt the same since Covid kicked off. We wouldn't have "scientists" who are supposed to be advising the government giving their opinions to the media first and the government second if she was running the show. And no stuttering bluster either.
Even though unemployment rose significantly during the time she was prime minister, she did a lot for that country. No politician today would to 2% of what she did
I think we are reaping the mistakes she made with our over reliance on the service industry and immigration in our low skill, low pay economy - especially in the pandemic as it's ensured our economy has been hit the hardest in Europe.
A very interesting interview but I felt the comment about not seeing her grandchildren as being sad - and it is rather alluded to in the film the Iron Lady. As for television destroying the art of conversation - this was a big thing at the end of the 1970s. I remember my father talking about it. Mind you, he was the first to turn the television on!
When she states she had a theory or conclusion, you know this is a woman of deep thought, weighing the pros and cons and looking for the best outcome. There will be some negatives but she sides on the best outcomes.
In that interview, she's 70 years old and still lucid, but it's obvious age has caught up with her. The interviewers treat her with both admiration and condescension. The tone of the conversation is as if she's your old granny who had a great career but is well past her prime.
I am working in a hospital and let me tell you: this is an extraordinarily fresh looking, sharp 70 year old in comparison. I cannot see in what way age “has caught up with her”.
@@robinlawson7624 It is fairly well known by those around her that it was the strokes that she suffered from that did the measurable harm, prior to that she was no worse for wear than most at that age.
But it is... On one hand she makes an excellent point but in reality you often/ mostly haveto work together with different people with different opinions, and to make something happen you need either a majority in parliament by your own party or a compromise with others.
@@Celisar1 That is complete nonsense. Consensus is lying to the public and using the opposition as an excuse. Governments are meant to make manifesto commitments that they deliver. The decline of politics is the result of trying to achieve consensus without offering anything to the public and the spiral of decline that has resulted.
This interview shows a side of Margaret thatcher that I barely recognise from her time in politics. Her observation on democracy (choice vs consensus) is interesting.
@@MrDanielfff777 most probably the one's that let our industries go to the wall and her belief in trickle down theory- imagine anyone believing that if you made the wealthiest even wealthier the money would trickle down and make us all better off. They must have been laughing so much.
@@alan5863 Well 1, those industries left Europe, places like Germany let them go before she did 2 Well the rich have become richer and so have the poor, look at India and China. People leave poverty in the UK all the time
@@MrDanielfff777 The IMF would disagree with you about trickle down economics. It's the middle and low income workers that drive the economy. Excessive inequality is also bad for growth and dampens social mobility. Inequality also means more crime and worse health. And of course wealth inequality increases political inequality- see Conservative Party donors list. Thatchers mistake was abandoning our industry and focusing instead on the financial sector and the service industry- carried on by Blair etc. It's not a coincidence we our economy is being hit the hardest in Europe.
@@alan5863 There is low inequalities in countries like Yemen, Congo and Afrigainistan, yet those countries are dismal. Plenty of crime there. There are more billionaires in the USA than there are in the whole of Africa and the Middle East put together, where would you prefer to live? Our economy is one of the best and most freest in Europe www.heritage.org/index/ranking/
Best PM this country has ever had, I was 18 and she was my first vote. Look who’s followed her since. Major,Blair,Brown,Cameron,May and now Boris. All weak and useless.
To be fair: weak in comparison. Only Boris is heading for truly weak. No-one could call Blair weak after what happened to the weapons inspector David Kelly and Brown must have been brave as well as stupid to sell our gold reserves at a record low price.
It is true, the trade unions in this country in the 1970's were so strong they literally ground the country to a halt and we ended up having the 3 day week. The country needed Thatcher in the 1980's and she successfully broke the stranglehold that the unions had on the country in the 1970's. Love her or hate her, she stood on her principles and didn't budge. Would love to know her feelings on Brexit
She was really the first breixteer in office. She initially was pro Europe as a free trade area that cooperated. When she finally understood that it was going to be a politically and economically federalising project and went from the EC to the EU she rallied against it. There is her council of Europe speech. Which ultimately did for her. The pro Europe lot and grandees in the conservatives got rid of her.
How politics has changed...... all summed up in a couple of sentences at 5:50 Many people didn't like her policies but they knew what they were getting. Nowadays "firmly held opinions" change overnight in a vain attempt to hold onto power. I love the way the tone changes at 3:59 a serious point to be made and get whole demeanour changes. No fobbing off with soundbites and smiles.
What TV unfortunately done. "Stopped conversation between children and parents " Maggie would be turning in her grave if she knew what mobile phones have done to dialog between children and parents.
Thank you, I never really had an opinion of Margaret Thatcher before she died. But after doing a bit of research, ive learnt that the tough decisions she made were necessary, and her steadfastness and determination I greatly admire. Her like are no more, instead we have too many PC politicians who make decisions based on trying to be popular. She never made any U-turns and stood by her convictions.This country owes her a great deal to her, history will be kind to her. RIP Lady Thatcher
She was absolutely brilliant, and had we have followed her basic principles we, as a nation would not be in the position we are today, was she perfect, unlike me and you, who are of course perfect, she was not. I haven't voted for several decades, but, if she was here and put up, I would without doubt vote for her.
A former Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons during her time as PM wrote that she was actually this way whilst in office. He would encounter her in the corridors at Westminster and she would always make time to talk - about him and his family, taking an interest in him - and he saw her at a reception for the victims of a rail disaster, mingling with people who were still feeling the raw grief, talking to them about those they had sadly lost and offering what comfortable words she could. He added, having seen that, that he wished people could see more of that side of her, but the media seldom showed it, favouring instead the shrill belligerent woman standing at the Dispatch Box or at international conferences.
@@MS-19 The right wing media promoted the Tories relentlessly in the eighties and for decades before and has done since Thatcher too. I can accept that Thatcher could be kind and thoughtful in person, there are many tales that attest to this. But it does not detract from the egregious and heartless policies that she implemented in her time in office. She destroyed Britain and her legacy is all around today.
The reason she is so hated is also the reason why it can probably be fairly claimed that she was the last effective politician, who actually stood for something and did something (even if that divided opinion of her). What we are left with now is a bunch of career politicians, who have never had to make any hard decisions or take a role of real leadership in their lives. They are ALL the same, on both sides of the political divide.
@@MarthaMansbridge That wasn't her key point. Her point was, that if all political forces eek out some kind of a consensus, which is a partial compromise of what everyone believes, then the voter does not have any more voice. The voter can no longer choose one option above another in order to state his or her preference.
He says “Isn’t that a recipe for discord “he says this to the longest serving prime minister and UK history. I think she knows what she’s talking about mate.
I admire her conviction, despite it being flawed, and we do need more politicians who believe what they say, rather than say what they think people want to hear.
It was also Callaghan who removed full employment, putting it up to 1.5 million. Yes Thatcher had it higher (temporarily) but this was due mainly to the oil crisis and partly her determination to keep inflation down (understandable surely). But don't let anyone know she argued against removing free milk in cabinet and SOME miners striked without a ballot ;)
What Margaret Thatcher said then about tv and lack of interaction in the home rings more true today than ever, with the advent and ever progression of social media. The family unit is on it's way out.
Amazing how much more these two "soft" interviewers got out of her than a thousand confrontational interviews with Paxman or Humphreys would have done.
Second time she had encountered Sarah Greene, the first was her famous appearance on Saturday Superstore in 1987, where she was asked some surprisingly astute questions by kids on the phone in. The thing about Thatcher, she was always up for a debate, to be challenged, always willing to answer difficult questions.
Didnt think it at the time being a Labour supporter but based on hindsight and listening to her speak i have a huge amount of respect for this lady.John Major,Hestletine and Ken Clarke need putting down.