Margaret Thatcher interviews | Thames Television |1971 -1979 

She is so rude

Win by shouting down and throwing insults it’s the liberal way.

@Liberty AboveAllElse Dear leader: "We have milk. Some say the best milk in the world. Better milk than any other president ever had." mother: "but Sir, the kids I see are coming home without milk" Dear leader: "That's fake news. Next question."

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She's a Lefty . Communist

Calm down, Adolf

@@SundaeRoast Calm down, Stalin

@@TemptingNoise *Trotsky

You are short sited and clearly lack the understanding of why this investment was made in the first place!

You obviously were not around in the late 1970s ... rationing until 1954 whereas USA ended rationing in 1947, Heath ruined the economy and Thatcher did absolutely nothing to help the fallen Empire build up again. You appear to have forgotten WW2 and the fact over 1 million people replaced those who died in the war, it was too much for the fallen Empire to cope with. And women ... husbands banned their wives from working and so she had to make do with one wage. A very, very foolish uneducated comment from you. You sound American, and very, very ignorant.

Wow!!

"Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher!"

@shellbell6919 - Which School was this?

@@davidhorn6008 why ?

We live in seemingly similar Q&A situations today.

@@artofthepossible7329 esp with Ivy leagues

Would have to be a room of absolute cretins to be be the case.

The problem is that socialism undermines democracy where it is allowed to exist.

Socialists, go, go!

I've lived in a self-proclaimed 'socialist' society - when I asked a professor 'What's socialism?', he replied:"Here's a pamphlet with seven contemporary definitions - they are all wrong! ...and you have to know them by heart!" Conservatism means equally nothing. ...as f.e. after a few centuries of theocracy/ochlocracy/dictatorship, a conservative would be anyone, who wants to keep theocratic/ochlocratic/dictatorial rule.That's the problem: context has taken a bow to the mere idea in politics! It resembles a committee of censors, who order everyone to honour tradition without any clue what tradition actually means.

Thats tripe. Conservative society agrees to allows people to talk about socalisism so long as they remain in power....

well put, 100% spot on

TORY

We couldn’t afford her to have 6 children.

Not.

@@melgrant7404 Grow up ,no one owes you shit.

@@breonabritton8111 oh grow up yourself I don't need anything from anyone.

@@melgrant7404 I didnt say anything for u to say that

@@breonabritton8111 yes you did you said grow up and no one owes me anything.

You are right she wasn't a magician or a goddess. She was just Maggie at the end of the day. She was just a human and also the first female Prime Minister so must have been under a lot of pressure

@@stitchcrashesdisney312lion4 Thank you for showing some interest in my comment. I often prompt people to think "what they would have done if they were in her shoes" and the answer is not easily reached.

@@tnakai1971jp Well that's a very good question you know I'm that kind of person who wants to make everybody feel comfortable and respect their needs but when you have to lead a country you can't satisfy everyone's needs. And I'm not sure if I could deal with that. So, cheers to Maggie!🥂

She was a beast. Not a compliment.

@@jonnewman6332 Tell me something, just one thing if you wish, about her time as Prime Minister that qualifies her as "a beast".

@@ClearOutSamskaras Destruction of post war industry and manufacturing. She wilfully and knowingly destroyed lives, communities and (no such thing as) society. Yes labour had failed, but she had the opportunity to deal with the bosses as well as just stamping on the unions i.e. people. The Falklands. A tricky one. But her disgraceful grandstanding afterwards was nauseous, callous and a blatant appeal for votes. (Though Blair's "hand of history" was maybe even worse). And ah, the finale, The Poll Tax. Every person pays the same regardless of income! An abomination. Even her inner circle tried to warn her off. Unfortunately, her greatest strength became her downfall; bloody mindedness and conviction. Not a criticism of those qualities. I just disagree with her.

Bryn Miller Thatcher took us deeper into the EU than any other politician.

What nonsense are you talking? Margaret Thatcher's opposition to the EU is what ultimately led to her downfall as Prime Minister unfortunately.

All these socialists want something for nothing and expect everyone to pay for them

+MsFanmail fuck you. Stop tarnishing everyone with the same brush. I work hard as a socialist! Twat.

Sam Matthews No, Thatcher's downfall culminated with the Poll Tax. Even her own Party abandoned her on this one.

No she isn't....she is dead now

@@ricomartinez2869 thank god

@@melgrant7404 Thank your god.Satan

@@breonabritton8111 he's your God not mine

Yeah she was a fine woman. Elegant and Witty.

Maggie was such a babe

@@andypandy4607 I never thought of Maggie to be a babe this took me by surprise

Confirmation bias. Not unattractive, mainly due to charisma, but certainly not attractive either.

Couldn't agree with you more

When under austerity goverments like Thatcher's people usually can't. That's the problem.

What a deplorable person, with deplorable political views.

Can’t feed them don’t breed them.

This is why our birth rate is plummeting. God help you all.

@Blixem the Leopard Cunt 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The beauty of Mrs Thatchers answer was that whilst it was perfectly reasonable, it left us to think the unsayable, 'WTF you doing having 6 kids and moaning about costs?!'

Six children and holding up five fingers...

@Blixem I generally share the same kind of view as you on responsability but the thing is : to mate and have children is what nature made us for while taxes and all your society rules are artificial creations therefore they are the burden that stop people from being able to feed their children rather than the opposite way around if you want to be purely objective on the matter.

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it is a common behavior among people who are poor to have children, because once they grow up they become the labor force of the family. It is an economic investment.

@@gianlucamorena3076 Not if they adopt the same philosophy as the mother, and just have 7 more kids. At some point they gotta start working more and birthing less

@@C.D.J.Burton ok, but for this reason that you wrote children in poor families are more neglected both from the point of view of education and physical growth.

“And the more children you have, the more likely one of them will get big in Hollywood! Then who’s payin’ the bills? Hollywood kid!”

@@gianlucamorena3076 that’s only valid in countries that don’t have any kind of governmental pension or health care program.

First time I was in the UK was in the 2022 and I was shocked, it looked like something out of a Charles Dickens novel. Run-down services, hardly anything worked and the labour force was often out on strike. The basically bankrupt UK looked like a country yearning for the days of the 18th century slave trade. Then came Liz Truss and the world laughed.

Yeah, but taking them isn’t.

Or stop having kids. If they cannot afford to care for kids why do they have 6 or 7 of them?

@Lord Rupert why should we care about mining? this isn't the 20th century. she dragged the country kicking and screaming into the 21st.

@Lord Rupert old enough to know better

​@Lord Rupert Britain was in permanent decline after the second world war and needed some medicine. She gave the country that medicine which didn't taste very nice. She shifted the focus from manufacturing to financial services which was a pretty good idea wouldn't you agree? Can you imagine trying to compete with India/ China/ USA when it comes to manufacturing today? Given our population size we'd need mass immigration, we'd need to build over every blade of grass. we'd need to relax our employment laws and keep a low minimum wage. No, instead, we can all relax in air conditioned offices earning lots of money.

@Lord Rupert Ok so it's been 40 years..? Is that not enough time to reskill and/ or relocate to find opportunity? Should the entire country still be living in the industrial age because some communities want to mine coal? instead, we've imported much of our coal needs in the 2000's which is far more sensible and we're now a position where coal is used less and less and renewables are on the rise. The largest offshore windfarm in the world is off the Yorkshire coast. we're generating close to 50% of all our electricity needs with wind and solar. That's the general direction of all mature economies in the west and keeps Greta Thunberg happy. You want to mine coal? "How dare you!" as Greta would say. AND you call me selfish? you literally want to kill the planet with your coal ambitions.

@@scapingby You forget, you are arguing with logic and reasoning which the left cannot tolerate.

Oh but the UK is a "nanny state" - Whereupon people come to rely on handouts

+Дмитрий Маслов We make this same mistake in the USA. It started with lunch for those who couldn't afford it. It's now turned into free breakfast. They even open the school cafeterias over the summer so that people can eat their during summer vacation even though school isn't in session. It isn't fair that they go hungry over the summer, the line goes. The truth is they want these kids around school employees more and more and around parents less and less. They start them to school earlier and earlier to be able to more easily program them to be collectivists. School is easily as much about social engineering as it is about teaching arithmetic, reading and writing. It's why I'm against the idea of public schools altogether. People send their kids to quality private schools for less per year than the public schools cost. If we abolished the public schools and the taxes that support them, parents could send their kids to private schools. An added bonus is that one your kids are out of school, one is done paying for school. As it is now, you pay for school for your whole life whether you have kids in school or not.

Benjamin Rood children cannot have milk then?

@@Patrick3183 Yes,they can get it home the state is not a parent.

+prophetchannel Well, isn't that typical of leftists?

+Anon54387 I wouldn't say it is a leftist thing, it's just the nature of politics.

That’s what being 45/46 is like!

Three words, makeup and hair theory.

According to Mrs. Booth the needy were too stupid to fill out the forms. I think I would be offended if I were a needy person.

Ha ha ha ha..nice one.

Not in many others

Good for you. How nice for you.

Which country was that?

***** hi janine. enjoy being a pleb, you deserve it.

***** No, thugs may be glad she is dead. Unfulfilled people who whine and complain rather than do anything about their circumstances may be glad she is dead. Moral people who realise value must be created by earnest effort, are glad she lived. Moral people who recognise earnest efforts, as was her effort to try and save a country she dearly loved, are glad she lived.

***** "That is why my father always taught me: never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it." - Margaret Thatcher March10, 1986 - 29 years later, still applicable.

***** Eric you are a pleb. Have a nice day.

***** maybe it does, doesn't change that you are a low life though.

You should get out more then

You're so right politicians are also just human beings with a beating heart in their chest and feelings

Karl Delavigne I thought the milk was just fine, I was fortunate not to suffer with lactose intolerance in that case I would gave drunk the water. My grandchild while on a visit to England raved about the water there.

I loved the milk and looked forward to my mini milk bottle with a straw.

We got ginger biscuits as well so that there was something for the milk to wash down.

Absolutely!!!

but not in the form of milk, surely? I really do not get the point of providing children with milk. I, as a school kid, never even wanted milk during school, I was fully happy with my bottle of water i brought with myself from home.

Funny some people found the opposite!

@James Brennan That is probably because you became an adult in the late 90s and your idealistic/romantic view of life (that most children adopt) had matured, as happens to almost everyone.

Lets talk about poll tax

From industry

nooo, North Sea oil saved you.....Britain was about to go to depression.

@@melgrant7404 It is a common myth that manufacturing and industry died at the hands of Thatcher, when in reality manufacturing has seen steady growth throughout the last 75 years. The fact that other industry sectors also grew up along side it thereby adding more diversity to our revenue streams is often used to propogate this false premise. In other words, manufaturing has grown and we are now less reliant on it. The true picture: www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity/output/timeseries/k22a/diop Note from the above link that Industry declined during Thatcher's first 18 months in office, while she sorted out the union mess. It then grew and was higher when she left office in 1990 than it had been when she took office in 1979.

@@Dunk1970 try telling that to the out of work miners

@@melgrant7404 Gladly ... As for the pits. If you ask people who they think closed the mines, 99% of people will leap to say Margaret Thatcher, such is the propaganda that the left has spread. Yet she and Heath before her presided over the slowest rate of pit closures across the entire period of decline. Between 1947 and 1994, some 950 mines were closed by UK governments. Clement Attlee’s Labour government closed 101 pits between 1947 and 1951; Macmillan (Conservative) closed 246 pits between 1957 and 1963; Wilson (Labour) closed 253 in his two terms in office between 1964 and 1976; Heath (Conservative) closed 26 between 1970 and 1974; and Thatcher (Conservative) closed 115 between 1979 and 1990. Attlee : 25 pits per year Macmillan : 41 pits per year Wilson : 31 pits per year Heath : 7 pits per year Thatcher : 10 pits per year That’s Labour closing 354 in just 12 years (30 per year!). Conservatives closing 387 in 21 years (18 per year). It had been a long steady reduction for 32 years prior to her coming into power and she oversaw fewer pits closing per year than had been happening already. She essentially inherited a great mess across several dying industries from previous governments. Note: I am not purely blaming one party over the other for said mess. This topic is about Thatcher though and not the Conservatives or Labour. Thatcher oversaw a change in the economic focus areas for the country that saw us change from being the sick man of Europe to getting back on the road to being a solid economy again. She sought to reduce the stranglehold of power the unions had down to reasonable levels, particularly around the legitimacy of strike action. Levels that the Labour party did not choose to reverse during their 13 year reign from 1997 to 2010. To quote Blair addressing the TUC at the beginning of his tenure: "Modernise your political structures as we have done in the Labour party. Influence with this government and with me is not determined by anything other than the persuasiveness of your arguments." "The old ways - resolutions, the committee rooms, the fixing, the small groups trying to run the show - have no future.” "New trade unionism - that is your aim. Partners for progress. That is your slogan." "Let's build trade unions that are creative, not conservative, that show they can work with management to make better companies.” "Unions that people join not just out of fear of change or exploitation, but because they are committed to success.” "Unions that look forwards, not backwards, that support workers as they are, and foster the adaptability they need to be secure in a competitive and fast changing world." "We will not go back to the days of industrial warfare, strikes without ballots, mass and flying pickets, secondary action and all the rest." No party wanted the unions to have the tyranical powers that they once wielded.