British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher speaks to a specially invited studio audience. First shown: 06/01/1981 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantle.com Quote: VT24103
“Every prime minister must tolerate criticism.” “If you put yourself on the frontline, you expect to be shot at.” Wise words from the late right honourable former PM Margaret Thatcher.
I somewhat like someone like Paxman’s style but when it comes to a lot of others I agree. Check out Peter Robinson from Hoover or Steve Paikin for modern day calm and fair interviewers who bring the best out of their guests.
@Rufus Chucklebutty I agree to an extent but it is also the fault of the interviewees. Interviewers often have to interject because the politician is waffling, trying to adapt the question to a different answer they want to put across, or they’re spouting meaningless platitudes for fear of offending someone. The reason interviewers behave so well with Thatcher is because she answered questions head on, with conviction, and she didn’t care if people disagreed or were affronted by her stance.
I love how people keep asking her for answers to their problems and she will directly tell them what they should do giving them practical advice instead of throwing some kind of cliché or rambling through the question like an ordinary polititian would.
Yes and she told them straight. She told the nurse that everyone starts on low wages and that the way around that is to work hard and get promoted. And she told the teacher that if funding was the same she should ask herself why is the system (and possibly her herself) not coming up with the good?! Can you imagine the uproar today if politicians dared say something like that to a nurse or a teacher?!
Frank Paul Lomas Yes, as any ordinary politician would, as you say. She wasn’t ordinary. I don’t always agree w her, but respect her I must. And she is right, Brian Walden is being domineering.
@@Knappa22 Everyone starts on low wages? She certainly did not, married to a millionaire businessman. Whatever experience of life Thatcher might have had before she was PM, none of it involved struggling to make ends meet, but here she was, sanctimoniously lecturing everyone about it.
She represents what you most like about Britain? That would have to be trampling on the weakest so that the people Thatcher represented - the rich and powerful - could get on. And not liking gay people. Or black people. And a whole lot more besides. The fact that she continues to be revered in some quarters is as nauseating as Thatcher herself ever was.
Don't have to be a genius. She ruined britain totally ruined it. She didn't have an incredible anything except a giant chip of her selfish entitled shoulder. Complete cow
I had no idea how reasonable and logical the ‘iron lady’ was. Her responses in this interview are well thought and measured, she really was transformational!
20:40 The Dame asks a question on improving preventative health, and then they move onto 'a question from the Tobacco Workers Union'. Different time...
Scary to have such a broad knowledge of most subjects. I was never a fan as child, but I grew up in the 80s and she was blamed for everything. Since her death I've read up about her and my views have changed. She made mistakes especially with housing. But we need her now
@@wokeeye6441 but then, I would have to hate myself. I admire Thatcher's tenacity, she was interesting to listen to. I didn't agree with everything she did/tried to do. Like I said, she was almost perfect.
@@martinfpaveyI have made your appointment NEXT WEEK, for a visit to a psychiatrist, in order to discuss your unfortunate and insane opinions! Get well soon!
Wow. Imagine a PM, in fact any politician, being cross examined like this...and overcoming all questions. Thatcher is very impressive here. Calm, in command of her brief, thinking on her feet, no false promises. Bravo.
No matter what you may think about Mrs Thatcher, we can all agree, if she was PM now in April 2019, she would not have gotten us into this mess of Brexit and we would have been out with a proper agreement and deal on March 29th 2019. Sadly Mrs May is no Mrs Thatcher, and we are still stuck in the EU ready for crash out soon with no deal. Mrs Thatcher would never have tolerated that. She would have kicked the EU men in suits in the arse until they agreed to OUR TERMS and not theirs. Agreed?
@@melgrant7404 i suggest you watch her interview about the EU gravy train and becoming a one union currency,she must of had a crystal ball on that and it was 30 years ago
I loved Margaret Thatcher, she was such a strong brilliant leader, best leader this country has ever had. When you have a leader who tells the leader of the free world your with us or against us, gets my vote each and every time. MT was and will forever be the best leader we have ever had.
Rubbish, Churchill and Attlee were the best leaders. Saving and rebuilding britain. This cow sold everything off, pure evil, I hope she is nice and toasty. She ruined their legacies
Imagine her irreverence towards Bo-Jo the 🤡. Runs away from every Brit crisis....no matter which type. Seems to get illnesses at crucial times. Hopeless against Starmer. A QC intellect. He represents what she tried to eradicate!
All my family was renting houses and even black and white TV's when this was filmed. Now, my family owns 5 properties. Thanks Maggie: this is a much better life than the poverty and the union strikes of the 70s and 80s. I was a socialist, but no more.
Afix ... I’m beginning to think it’s every 60-80 years, which is terrifying. The West is not producing leaders with full foundations in history and ethics and determination, much less logic. Thatcher was a rare human who transcended gender and was utterly, naturally, brilliantly a LEADER. Thatcher in her prime would look at this age of insanity and create immense industries and facilities for the mentally ill and into these facilities would go half the chicken-little, brazen, lawless, scatterbrained Western population, DESERVEDLY. The alternative? We are already seeing it. Suffering it. No relief in sight from the babbling sea of willful, abject fools. Thatcher destroyed all these “planted” women in this encounter. The fat, complacent, lazy West created this current cataclysm, not heroes like Thatcher. Oh, but the decadent “feelings” people would tell you the exact opposite, especially since they’ve had almost 80 years to gaze at their own navels in the flesh and also on media! Clanging cymbals indeed. She showed the proper way and held-off the rot for us, our children, our grandchildren, and maybe the next, in a temporary but valuable way ... but people, CITIZENS have since followed decadence rather than *basic* sense, and their descendants shall PAY and they shall deserve every ruin that falls upon them. This interview is extraordinary: 5 or 6 deliberately complaining TV people and then 7 or 8 harpies/warthogs in a live audience and Thatcher crushed them all. Look away, decent people. Look away. Leaders like Thatcher staved off, valorously, a ruin that is ever inevitable. Celebrate her and curse the vast sea of whimpering do-nothings and decadents who have crushed every empire from Egyptian and Etruscan times to the present day.
She believed in personal freedom and small government. Not like these nutters in charge now who think the government should own you and interfere in every aspect.
Government expenditure rose between 1979 and 1991, she supercharged both the police and the intelligence services, and her Government introduced a raft of measures which reduced our freedoms of speech, movement and assembly.
@@markofsaltburn government expenditure rose but GDP growth outpaced it so in fact the public sector was shrinking as a proportion of GDP. At the start of her time in office government spending was 45% of GDP and by the time she left about 39%.
It’s amazing to see the female audience asking interesting and difficult questions, oh and surprise surprise thatcher answered every single question directly. P.S everyone clearly had done their homework and the questions they chose were phenomenal. You do not see these types of interviews anymore. Today’s MP’s never ever answer questions directly.
Mel grant Maybe you have Alzheimer's , Thatchers grasp of detail is incredible , she is a country mile ahead of anyone else in politics past or present
We’ve had 41 years of Thatcherism or Thatcherism-lite and the country is on the threshold of collapse. Even my local Tory mayor - who’s actually a pretty solid guy - acknowledges that he’s going to have to repair the terrible damage that her policies caused to our local infrastructure before he can start to rebuild the area. At least people could actually spell “Britain” before she came to power.
@@markofsaltburn What rubbish you speak, the woman hasn't been in charge of the government for 30 years and still you blame our problems on her. The basic problems we have today would have been fixed and not occured at all if Maggie were in power today.
you are not wrong pal. Whether liked or despised, all knew where they stood and her intentions. I imagine she would have been highly suspicious of lockdowns and that sort of thing. Iain W Glasgow
She was the last time we had a real government. Also people spoke with much better English and pronunciation then. Even her biggest critics were at least articulate, a world away from todays incoherent Corbynisters.
You should not even mention English, Mike; with the spate of mistakes decorating your comment, I doubt you even mean the same 'English' as everyone else.
Her successors threw away everything she- and we the British people- achieved in the 80s. Including, as we now see (2022), the basic facts regarding inflation that both she and Jim Callaghan and the rest of us had learned the hard way in the 1970s.
@@ian_b It would be more constructive to look at why her successors threw away her policies. When a thing does not work, conscientious leaders usually throw it away, especially when most of what she did flew in the face of common sense and basic human decency.
@@ian_b Your ideology is out of step with the current state of humanity. Classical capitalism has failed. It failed in the 1930s. Keynes saved capitalism and it is only with Keynes that capitalism will survive.
Thank you for posting this, it's great to see. It's also sad to watch for me, because you see the elderly people who are no longer with us, you see how far society has fallen since then, people here in this video even seem kinder, and also British.
I don’t think people were kinder themselves, I think it’s just television that used to be run differently. When it comes to being British, it is not a very kind thing to say.
@@noodleppoodle Because people who got off a plane from a vastly different culture are the definition of British. Okay. Check stats. Take a look around. Check John Cleese's comments about London. He's on point. It's factual. I don't think it's kind that government after government caused the invasion and takeover of our culture and peoples, the disappearance in many areas. I don't think that is very kind to do to a peoples, at all.
@@TRex-dd4ze I don’t live in Britain so I can’t quite look around to see it, but when I was a student there, the diversity is what I quite appreciated. The gene pool for dating is also quite broad. There’s a positive;) 10% of Britain’s population were born abroad, while for Switzerland it is 25%. From your comment I understand it is not the people themselves you mind, but the fact they do not assimilate to the British culture and the way of life. Am I reading it right? Why do you think it is so?When you go to Switzerland it is still rather Swiss. People want to migrate to countries that are attractive. Despite the weather, people found something positive there, whether it was salary, governance, vibrant culture. When migrants stop coming, it’s probably not a good sign.
@@noodleppoodle Great man. You appreciate the diversity. You think the mixing up of nationals that exists all around the world, in all 190+ countries increasingly so, especially in Western countries these recent years is somehow the definition of British. You try to say the mixing of peoples within Britain is somehow unique when in fact it is the opposite. It is taking away uniqueness in this world. Some of us actually like British culture and we are a people. It is not just a culture of course. It is a people. But go on and deny the existence of a people now too. I doubt people travel to Great Britain to experience Chinese New Year or the Dragon Boat festival or Diwali or to try Mexican food or Italian food. I think there are other countries in the world where one might seek those things and find them a little more authentically. I think there is everything kind in the world about Britain remaining English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh and I think everything nasty about people trying to destroy that. But I guess that is the divide between those that want to do away with separate unique identities and have one big blob of all of us being the same and conforming, and those that want uniqueness to continue to be passed down in this world. And spare me the gene pool BS. There is a tone of diversity within the Welsh people (within our genetics), within the English, the Scottish, the Irish. Think we've done quite well over the centuries. It's not everyone marrying their cousins or something causing birth defects or whatever sick arguments your side seems to make, as though someone tracing their roots far back within the British Isles, is someone defective. It's racist. You don't need people flying from the other side of the planet to increase the gene pool. You like the invaded Britain. Great. Well you're loving the world right now then. Enjoy it. A lot of us actually want to keep our communities in tact and have our culture and people remain the majority of our native land and that is actually a very kind sentiment.
@@johnking5174 The 1951-1964 Conservative Governments created a trade imbalance crisis which scuppered the Wilson administration before it had even begun. Churchill/Eden/Macmillain just kicked their problems further downfield.
4:23 This part is one of the reasons she was an amazing leader. There hasn’t been anyone like her since. I’ve always had a high opinion of her but this makes me like her even more.
Quite obvious that people who have high opinions of this controversial individual will continue to do so. This is a tribalistic tendency and independent of the actual intrinsic merit of this particular individual's domestic policy. The cliche of in one ear out the other also applies by implication.
1980s politics resemble the blind being led by a man with one eye. Everything was so plutocratic by that point that only the most viciously conservative were allowed to be elected by the financiers yet who had the tact to masquerade themselves as prudent promoters of freedom and aired out the tired platitudes of democracy. It still is the same nowadays, unfortunately
Yoo spelt er nayme rong. You are also cataclysmically incorrect in your rather RIGHT WING appraisal. Shame on YOU Tory blue, hates the poor loves the you.
@@nygelmiller5293 like most of these comments, they must be referring to hitler. Thatcher was rotten the core, a right cow. Her policies were rubbish, it created a temporary boom ruined community and im glad she isn't here any more✌
Outstandingly chaste English tinged with British accent is the only globally intelligible and acceptable English Language spoken by one of the best prime ministers the world has ever produced!
It is so impressive how very eloquent, well informed and very polite all of these women were despite of discussing passionately and controversially. And let me just add that German pensions are now among the lowest of the developed western world. Sucks, truly does.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
i thought she was one of the strongest women in the world and men are usually very intimidated by strong women and thats a shame as she proved over and over her ability to lead.
Love her or hate her, you can't deny she wanted to be an effective leader with intelligence. UK, USA, and W. Europe were in the "malaise era" and she had to take out the trash before England turned into an episode of "Hoarders."
Why are academics so arrogant and rude & interupting? This professor does not run a business like one on the panel does or administrate professional services such as your NHS but act like they know everything bettet than those who do. Same problemin the US.
I would say that the professor had the most anger and disdain for Mrs. Thatcher. She was one of the people who trained the current generation of academics who are trying to sink English civilization.
Gaww she was good! So articulate and knowledgeable, she rattled off statistics like nobody's business, she had vision. A lot of people did really well during her time, rich and poor, people in council houses bought their own homes, yuppies were born and right at the end along came the rave scene
she struggled more than you can ever comprehend. You are simply jealous that she got as far as she did, on her own merit, nd didnt give u a government hand out!
The problem with discrimination is that it is not only limiting what you can do but it is almost impossible to change since discrimination is not based on facts but on prejudice.
I've said this for years . . . if Thatcher was slightly more moderate, she'd have been one of the world's very best leaders. Credit where due . . . she clearly cared about serving the public.
U can always find women with clipboards who have little pet projects that they have decided to get behind. The problem is that they all think that their own project is the most important one going around and that it needs urgent funding. Poor Mrs Thatcher could hear thousands of these and still say the same thing "where is the money?" That's the part that seems to escape the thoughts of most of them.
She found plenty of money for her whims, as did those of her inner circle. The Settle-Carlisle only exists today because she found it “quite nice”, while other public amenities fell by the wayside. You like public expenditure by decree?
They post questions to her that aren't necessarily government problems. A lot of these are personal issues. You can choose whether or not to have children. And, you can choose whether or not to go into the workforce or what not. I would think everyone would want to make these choices without government involvement.
Losing a house living outside not affording food these things are very important. I was always against scams, sorry. Someone temporarily in nursing home in need should not live outside because there were so many scams..
Wow! The professor in blue is a clear represebtation of those in power today. She drops a question and doesnt expect maggie to answer...lol..the rot started way far back...
18:19 'It is difficult, isn't it? You want to do absolutely everything [to help the unintentionally vulnerable] ... we could spend the whole of the national income on the health service [ and still not meet every need]...obviously, we have to look after our older folk' 18:31 who cannot possibly help themselves; we have to look after the mentally; we have to look after the health of the young people 18:40 ... you don't know where to stop ... what government can do is provide the consultation, the discussion, the training and a certain amount of money from the rax-payer and try to get the structure right and then we must really see that the profession's voice is fully heard 19:11 ... that's the first essential, after all. If you look after hygiene, if you look after health, you'll be very much fitter ... and I would like to see more of it [preventative medicine] 20:25
No matter what you may think about Mrs Thatcher, we can all agree, if she was PM now in April 2019, she would not have gotten us into this mess of Brexit and we would have been out with a proper agreement and deal on March 29th 2019. Sadly Mrs May is no Mrs Thatcher, and we are still stuck in the EU ready for crash out soon with no deal. Mrs Thatcher would never have tolerated that. She would have kicked the EU men in suits in the arse until they agreed to OUR TERMS and not theirs. Agreed?
Times were very different back then. But Maggie on Defence Spending ?? IF the stuff was made in the UK then OK it kept UK jobs. The Following yr we went to WAR with ARGENTINA & it was a big WAR We lost Battle ships & Lots of lives in 1982. Maggie Got it SPOT ON !! Re -THE FALKLANDS WAR. The Falklands Are British Land / Territory, & Needed our Help. We Stood up & Went into Battle All Guns BLAZING . EVERY War SHIP WAS SENT ASAP !! OUR ROYAL NAVY & ROYAL AIR FORCE went in Heavy. & we Won & Saved the Falkland Island People. Argentina Invaded & attacked BRITISH SOIL so MAGGIE HAMMERED THEM ! JUST WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW. A GOOD HAMMERING DELIVERED TO the UK PARLIAMENT THIS TIME. MAGGIE WOULD HAVE DONE BREXIT THE VERY NEXT DAY IN FULL & SACKED EVERYONE AGAINST IT. & SENT the Troops IN to Silence the Remainers. OMG MAGGIE WOULD HAVE DELIVERED in every way ! No Left wing CRAP for Her !!
Now, with Britain beleaguered and friendless after Brexit, Argentina is sharpening its knives waiting for the moment when the UK’s depleted military will be stretched to breaking point by the obligations it’s just created for itself in the South China Seas. Being America’s poodle comes at a cost.
