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.
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.
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.
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 🤨
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.
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.
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? 🙃
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.
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,
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 :)
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.
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.... 🥱
@@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'.
@@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.
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.
@@paulheaton8180 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.
'Are we heading for an early election ?' - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U0L6Out1Gmk.html + 'Bojo's Election Bill Power grab' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MWwWwk0RHRA.html [by A Different Bias] plus 'A Decade of the Tories' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MjUWX6S8iYU.html [by Jonathan Pie]
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,
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.
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.
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!
@@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.
@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.
@@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.
Thatcher the milk snatcher! I was an 80's kid I remember Thatcher taking the milk away from school kids. As a 4 or 5 year old who looked forward to his free child size bottle of milk every morning I remember being scared because some kid in my class told me "if you don't drink the milk your balls will go up inside your stomach and stay there". Me being a gullible child I believed him and thought it was something really bad, cried all day, went home told me mum and got laughed at! It traumatized me so much that I went out every morning knicking milk off doorsteps until my knackers dropped permanently. That's my earliest memory of Maggie and my bollock episode is the first thing I think of when I see or hear her name! Did you know that your balls can grow by up to 500% during puberty?
Mate...you are wrong. Not only do you mention bollocks a lot in your post, it would appear you also talk a lot of bollocks. Free school milk was stopped in September of 1971; I know this to be a fact because my nephew started school in that September and it was also the same year I left school as a 15 year old. I think also that maybe the '500%' bit passed you by...
I love Paul💥. Never knew or known him but always loved his music constantly🙏 This was an erudite critique of Thatchers mismanagement of her own roots. She even denied the fact her own Father was working class ffs. Imagine. Ashamed of her Father. What a trout 😑. Now I weaponise opinion to protect working classes. And use social media to protect future generations,keep their hopes alive.💥 we're a social starburst,here to suck up the worst and hoping the best comes before the absolute worst....! 🙏
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 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.
@@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.
