***** Low unemployment, welfare budget cut, armed forces getting major funding, small business tax breaks, a system that says if you work, your better off. Which works. Just start working!!!
All while leaving the working classes destitute in the closure of the mines and the forcing parents to pay for their child's milk if they do so choose to have it. That women may have won a war but she left her own people in a worse state we were before she came into power. Despicable.
@Liberty AboveAllElse this is a terrible opinion, children deserve to be clothed and fed for their sake regardless of if they have incompetent parents or not
MrBonwoo Thanks, dude. Did that a long time ago, dude. Studied her policies extensively, dude. Tough, smart, freedom-loving leader, dude. To conclude otherwise is to ignore an avalanche of facts and data, dude. Perhaps you loathe her because you are one who needs government help to survive every day and loves the thought of cradle to grave running of your life by the government, dude. Perhaps a socialist hammock - instead of a safety net - is what you see as "fair" for Britiain's populace. Thatcher would most certainly not be the kind of leader you would gravitate to, dude. I understand. Dude. Not enough handout's to keep your kind of citizen fat, happy, and content, dude. So sorry, dude, but she was the best, and together with Reagan they defeated communism and totalitarianism without a shot being fired, dude. But, I suppose that's only good news if you don't think communism and totalitarianism are good things, dude.
***** I agree, but I didn't want to tell him that! :-))) Leftists/socialists/communists are largely freedom-hating pricks (though rarely facetious), so nothing particularly newsworthy there. Cheers to freedom! Cheers to Thatcher! Cheers to Reagan!
yes she was..... and mrs thatcher who never ever admits she is wrong..... well she said many times that she wished she had not signed the single market. she thought it was a mistake. she was opposed to it.... so yes it was her fault.... but she realized that and then spet her life fighting against the EU! she has won!
She wasn't against the EU, just the future she saw it heading down and against the EURO. She wouldn't have let brexit be the joke that it is. Also blaming Thatcher for what the EU became, is fucking delusional.
God bless you Ma'am, never forgotten, always remembered! I plead to all British citizens who are indecisive regarding their vote. Always remember that this country will always be safe in the hands of a Tory government. "yes the medicine is harsh but the patient requires it in order to heal, should we withhold the medicine?"
Absolutely a fabulous speech that should be required viewing by high school students. She articulates a philosophy that has been maligned by those who are confused and those earn a living by suggesting that the complexities of social and economic problems can be easily solved by simply taxing the rich. As Lady Thatcher once said, "sooner or later you will run out of other people's money." Her wisdom resonates today as strongly as it did when she was in office. All of us are indebted to her for her leadership.
Love her or hate her ( and there were many that did ) , Lady Thatcher was undoubtedly a phenomenal politician . Those that have subsequently been at the helm of the Conservative Party have been little more than caretakers by comparison . History will remember this great Lady - R.I.P
Half the people who claim to hate her were either children or not been born yet when she left office. They were only fed nonsensical lies (Thatcher hates the working class) or simply taught to resent her by ignorant parents who should be ashamed both for their ignorance as well as for teaching their children hate.
That's called VISION. Not only was she a leader, but a visionary stateswoman too. She knew early on that the single currency was a setup to bring a federal Europe through the back door, catching every european citizen by surprise, with or against their will. It's happened in Greece, in Spain, in Portugal and is now moving on towards Germany, France, Italy and all the remaining hopeful dopey rest. We owe Brexit, in part, to this wonderful Lady too. May she rest in peace!
Lady Thatcher bowed out with enormous grace , style and elegance whilst never compromising her ferocious intelligence and wit. May Sir Denis Thatcher and Lady Thatcher as his wife and “Lady “ in her own well earned right , forever Rest In Peace together . They have indeed been laid to rest , side by side .
Yes. What a woman. Sure, she wasn't perfect, but she got so much RIGHT, and didn't deserve to go the way she did at the hands of that bastard Heseltine and his acolites. The only good thing there was that he failed to get chosen as Leader - thank God. I'm a Scot too, and I can see that Mrs.T was without ANY shadow of a doubt, the best peacetime PM in a hundred years. Had she stayed as Leader, the Tories could have walked the 1997 General Election. That liar Bliar threw away so much of what everyone had fought for, AND got us involved in many wars - AND we ended-up broke AGAIN, as we ALWAYS do after Labour have been in power....!
As long as the ordinary person was among the wealthiest. Else she consistently fought *against* the ordinary person. Reading the massive amount of disinformation about Thatcher on RUclips, I realize that people who were born after 1990 don't even know that she was ousted because she pushed a tax that was so unfair that it provoked massive unrest in Great Britain. Look up "poll tax" or "Community Charge". There is a reason why she was and still is hated by those who have lived under her rule, especially in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and northern England, i.e in the less wealthy areas of the UK, that she methodically destroyed. Also she was a racist, bigot, scornful, homophobic, mysogynistic, heartless person.
***** Better to support Old Labour who supported the workers, than the Tories who helped the bankers, CEOs and the wealthy. That is what the conservatives did under the vile bitch Thatcher and her right wing cronies.
afiq aziz She did NOTHING to protect the poor or middle class. She helped the bankers, CEO's, and the wealthy. She oppressed the poor and killed thousands of jobs.
If Thatcher was here today, she would be celebrating what Boris has done - won against the Socialists on 12 Dec 2019 and taken us out of EU on 31st Jan 2020! I hope Boris will do well to take this country to new heights.
We have gone backwards since she left. The Labour government knocked down my home which I had saved for in cash by living in a car three years. They knocked it down and gave me a shared equity home which will be all there's by the time I die. Lay our also took us into a stupid war which Noone in the UK wanted. I went from being a free speaking artist to a worker for a council with fat cat backstabbers running the businesses without any care for what went on in the front line. Thatcher stood for freedom. You could live in a cardboard box if you wanted to, or you could become an entrepreneur millionaire. These days you get moved on even if you sleep outside a cathedral under God's name. Thatcher let kids buy shares with pocket money and they had money before they even left school. She's the bees knees.
She was fantastic. Being born in 1975 I grew up with Maggie. She was awsome all the students that celebrated her death had no idea of what she achieved.
high unemployment, a strong hatred of the working class. thatcher was a psychopath. i grew up in working class barnsley in the 1980s. the damage she did to the north is disgusting. she only cared about the rich
The Coal miners that worked so slow during the week then did double overtime at the weekends? greedy and taking the piss! I'm Northern and so was Maggie! The bigots and unions,chauvinistic bullies didn't like the fact she stood up to them! FACT! I'm from a family of miners and know this went on.
In the words of the Lady herself "Fabulous!" Britain will never have another leader like it, the ONLY politician who was not afraid to stand up for what they believed in, despite public and parliament opinion. It is because of her I feel proud to support the Conservative Party and to be British. And look at us now, most of us hate the EU, giving votes to UKIP, Lady Thatcher warned us of Federal Europe, but they did not listen!
Love her or loathe her, it has to be said that she was a giant among pygmies. Which brings me to my point. She was very lucky that, for her entire premiership, the opposition was badly led and extremely weak. Foot was a formidable parliamentarian but, by the time he was appointed leader of The Labour Party, he was too old. The world had moved on, and image was deemed to be as, if not more, important than policy. Thatcher understood this, Foot didn't. And as for Kinnock....... he was like a naughty schoolboy quivering with fear in front of the headmistress! If The Labour Party had done what it should have done, and elected Denis Healey as leader when Callaghan resigned, things could have been very different.
So was the entire opposition led badly for 11 and a half years during her reign, and then badly again for the last 13 years or maybe there's a fundamental flaw with your party? Hint*Occams Razor
@@malenurse35 Yeah cause the assholes after her didn't do that either right? Wake up dude, Thatcher was great for Britain, just because you want to keep your head in the sand when it came to those before and after her because you swallow your propaganda like a good boy just out of your disdain for a woman you likely had no knowledge of because you're likely weren't even of legal of age to vote when she was around. Fuck right off. Britain is far worse off now than it EVER was with Thatcher.
I admire these kinds of women, in fact, she is one of those women I now collect as my inspiration in life, one of which was Elizabeth I, who ruled England in power with her dedication to its country. I want to remember them in my life now where I think it's I have this battle to either lose millions or get them. Women that inspire me like Margret make me realize i can accomplish what I need to do that very few single women can do. Thank God for giving us people to model like Margret.
Yep, she thought she was above all else, nearly royal, immovable... time proved her wrong on that, and - above all - on her economic management. She got lucky her and there, but, made fatal errors, her monetarist view on economy destroyed more than a generation.
I wonder way American's love PMQ's, it's pure theatre! You Imagine Obama in congress receiving hostile shouting and awkward questions? He'd shrivel up! It takes British humour to take such hostility.
My father worked in a Factory and my Mother was a cleaner. They worked hard and were lucky to be around at this time. They saved bought there first house bought shares. We did not have handouts but because of this women and tory goverment my father and mother for the first time in family history have something substantial to hand down to there loved ones! a great working class hero is what my father says about this women.
I think that she was a great! Real balls and attitude. Whether her policies were right or wrong for the country, she stood and defended them!! Hats off to you mrs T..
Incredible. I am a very pro-Blair supporter and as such I wish we had the political leadership of such resoluteness and conviction today. Margaret Thatcher was a great leader and although I do not agree with her convictions, I can wholeheartedly celebrate her conviction.
Another fellow Scotsman who recognises greatness. Margaret Thatcher was a truly great, strong and determined leader. The UK, Europe and indeed the world could do with leaders like Margaret Thatcher now in these troubled times. She had the determination and resolution to see her policies through - policies that were always in Great Britain's interests. Margaret Thatcher also had some other qualities lacking in many of today's leaders - foresight and vision. David, Aberdeen, Scotland.
But of course, there is no way she would have been become PM there. And she was not tellling the truth when she said employment got better under her reign. Unemployment was worse for years. That is one of the main reasons you can still see a lot of hatred expressed for her in these comments.
Alex Romanov That is very naive speculation. If she had lived there then, she would not have even the dubiously admired characteristics the conservatives still praise her for: she would have turned out like Ana Pauker instead:(
SpectatorAlius During 13 years of Labour under Blair and Brown, Thatcher and her legacy has been re-written. In reality, she was very popular, brought economic prosperity after a disastrous time under Labour where the IMF took over and debt soared. Labour and the left re-wrote history to paint her as hated and evil. You will find that most people throwing hate-comments at her were born after her time in government and grew up under Labour. If she was really that unpopular and evil, she wouldn't have won so many elections.
DeviatorStress It sounds to me like you are the one doing the rewriting fo hisotry. I remember all too well how people under Thatcher complained bitterly about the very high unemployment under her reign. It took a long tiem for Britain to recover from that -- and that was no thanks to Thatcher.
I am part English and she makes me proud to be English. What fighting spirit. This is being English is all about. When the going gets tough, stiffen that upper lip and stand strong. England should thank her, for she saved them from not being part of the EU.
She was a force of nature. We need more politicians with conviction regardless of their party. Too often in the US you see politicians saying what we know they don't truly believe.
As an American, I have a great deal of respect for Margaret Thatcher's accomplishments in office. I find it hard to understand why my British friends do not feel the same way. Something magnificent happened in the late 1980's when leaders like Thatcher, Reagan, and Gorbechev were on the world stage. We went from a world where nuclear conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact was a REAL possibility to a peaceful coexistence. People tend to forget this too often.
Tomorrow the people of the United Kingdom votes to stay in or leave the European Union. Just imagine, whatever your opinion if Maggie had gone back to Europe instead of David Cameron and specified (not asked) for reforms. I can't help thinking that the country now would be in a lot better shape under her leadership.
Thatcher would never have signed the Maastrict treaty and as for the Lisbon treaty I think she may have destroyed several of her infamous black handbags over it. Brexit under Thatcher: Thatcher: That is the deal the UK are offering. EU: Sorry we don't agree with it Thatcher: That is the deal the UK are offering. Let me know when you have changed your minds.
I remember watching this on CSPAN back when they were showing UK parliamentary debates on American television on Sunday evenings, and thinking, how on earth could her colleagues undermine one of the twentieth century's most heroic leaders. What a gallant swan song for a remarkable career.
I love you Margaret. If only Britain had a leader like you today, we might return to a time of prosperity for all and not making the poor poorer and the rich poorer.
What is it with the Labour party keep putting forward windbags for their leader ? No one came close to Maggie. Sure mistakes were made but she put the country on a good solid footing and stood up for Britain against the EU.
Whatever your political position and feelings toward her, Baroness Thatcher was a bloody awesome PM. Where in the current pathetic whimpering line-up of politicians is a figure that even comes close to her? I can't find one
Cameron's stance in Brussels yesterday was something EVEN THATCHER would be proud of. If this is consistant Thanks to Cameron we could be again a Great Nation with a conservative government. Something which has not been since that woman left office. I hope we can make her proud!
I am an American who simply enjoys the show that is the Commons. Regardless of political party or belief, Margaret Thatcher has more intestinal fortitude, ability to express her views, and overall aura of leadership and trust than all of those who followed her combined.
Margaret Thatcher was an extraordinary woman, leader and politician. She transformed Britain from a country going backwards fast to a growing nation on a healthy economic footing. Of course she polarised people, that's what great leaders do - their business is progress not popularity, and such was MT's enormity that she achieved both, you don't become the longest serving PM in 150 years if you're not popular. Thank you Margaret, for your outstanding contribution to this country and the world.
She was 100% spot on. So ahead of her time.
Saved the UK from ruin
***** That's because Labour won in 1997.
Matthew S been the north
+Roy T claimed Tony Blair was her greatest achievement
***** Low unemployment, welfare budget cut, armed forces getting major funding, small business tax breaks, a system that says if you work, your better off. Which works. Just start working!!!
the U.S. owns the U.K. duh....
This was a very strong, patriotic, British Woman. She saved Britain. She was at the right place at the right time.
Just like Churchill and Nigel Farage. Britain has a nack at that I guess. Germany on the other hand.....
All while leaving the working classes destitute in the closure of the mines and the forcing parents to pay for their child's milk if they do so choose to have it.
That women may have won a war but she left her own people in a worse state we were before she came into power.
Despicable.
I couldn't agree more man. I love the Iron Lady
She saved British children from calcium
@Liberty AboveAllElse this is a terrible opinion, children deserve to be clothed and fed for their sake regardless of if they have incompetent parents or not
Lady Thatcher is freaking awesome. This planet needs her more than ever.
A true leader. Labour never had a chance when she was around.
foot had a chance until falklands
@@tomgibson6801 🇦🇷😢👍🏻
@@ohmusicsweetmusic you are such an idiot with ridiculous conspiracy theories
Let’s hope to keep those Labour bureaucrats out of the system! God Bless
@@ohmusicsweetmusic as an American, I ask you to stfu
Considering the emotional strain that she was going through, it is a fantastic performance!
***** god bless her ,oh ye shes in hell
Alan Heath she's known as the Iron lady for a reason....
Londonistan?
Alan Heath considering she was stabbed in the back by the grey men in the grey suits sat around her.
Keith Lemon she beat every left wing shithouse that came up against her.
You all hate her because she won.
Akon Shohe That insult doesn't really work. If you've got an education then you know how important immigration is for us. Try again.
Reagan and Thatcher....the original Dream Team. Freedom and democracy were blessed to have them both for as long as we did.
Oh yeah Thatcher freedom, look into her policies dude, then decide.
MrBonwoo
Thanks, dude. Did that a long time ago, dude. Studied her policies extensively, dude. Tough, smart, freedom-loving leader, dude. To conclude otherwise is to ignore an avalanche of facts and data, dude. Perhaps you loathe her because you are one who needs government help to survive every day and loves the thought of cradle to grave running of your life by the government, dude. Perhaps a socialist hammock - instead of a safety net - is what you see as "fair" for Britiain's populace. Thatcher would most certainly not be the kind of leader you would gravitate to, dude. I understand. Dude. Not enough handout's to keep your kind of citizen fat, happy, and content, dude. So sorry, dude, but she was the best, and together with Reagan they defeated communism and totalitarianism without a shot being fired, dude. But, I suppose that's only good news if you don't think communism and totalitarianism are good things, dude.
facetious prick
*****
I agree, but I didn't want to tell him that! :-)))
Leftists/socialists/communists are largely freedom-hating pricks (though rarely facetious), so nothing particularly newsworthy there.
Cheers to freedom! Cheers to Thatcher! Cheers to Reagan!
MrBonwoo
Sorry, dude. I apologize.
Miss you Maggie. Thanks for saving the nation from socialism. Just defeated eu socialism too!
+Timothy Doherty socialism can be good when it is flexible and works to the needs of the country, unfortunately this is rarely seen
A No Non Sense Lady, I shall treasure her, always!
I'm sure she would have loved Brexit!
You do realise that she was the main architect behind the single market right?... Which you guys are now leaving, very proud indeed.
yes she was..... and mrs thatcher who never ever admits she is wrong..... well she said many times that she wished she had not signed the single market. she thought it was a mistake. she was opposed to it....
so yes it was her fault.... but she realized that and then spet her life fighting against the EU!
she has won!
She wasn't against the EU, just the future she saw it heading down and against the EURO. She wouldn't have let brexit be the joke that it is.
Also blaming Thatcher for what the EU became, is fucking delusional.
She would have nailed it and had all the panzy-assed wannabes trembling in their pink slippers!
Pure strength and charisma. We need this again.
God I miss her. Lord knows we could use strength, candor and right thinking like that on this side of the pond. Thank you Maggie!.
"I'm enjoying this! I'm enjoying this!" What a marvelous Lady!
RIP
God bless you Ma'am, never forgotten, always remembered! I plead to all British citizens who are indecisive regarding their vote. Always remember that this country will always be safe in the hands of a Tory government. "yes the medicine is harsh but the patient requires it in order to heal, should we withhold the medicine?"
Absolutely a fabulous speech that should be required viewing by high school students. She articulates a philosophy that has been maligned by those who are confused and those earn a living by suggesting that the complexities of social and economic problems can be easily solved by simply taxing the rich. As Lady Thatcher once said, "sooner or later you will run out of other people's money." Her wisdom resonates today as strongly as it did when she was in office. All of us are indebted to her for her leadership.
If my articulating a philosophy you mean lying, distorting history and trying to save face then yeah. Great example of that.
Yeah aren't we stuck in a future where the past had the answers 😂
I'm not english, but I love this woman because I hate socialists.
Remarkable Woman.
Dennis Thatcher's quote comes to mind, "I wear the trousers in our house, I also wash and iron them too"
Love her or hate her ( and there were many that did ) , Lady Thatcher was
undoubtedly a phenomenal politician . Those that have subsequently
been at the helm of the Conservative Party have been little more than
caretakers by comparison . History will remember this great Lady - R.I.P
Nah.
Half the people who claim to hate her were either children or not been born yet when she left office.
They were only fed nonsensical lies (Thatcher hates the working class) or simply taught to resent her by ignorant parents who should be ashamed both for their ignorance as well as for teaching their children hate.
Clayton you took the words right out of my mouth, I absolutely agree. Here Here!!!
I wish that she was alive and with all her faculties in place up to the EU Referendum. Cameron would be hammered by her.
All this stuff about Europe that she is talking about still applies in 2016!
That's called VISION. Not only was she a leader, but a visionary stateswoman too. She knew early on that the single currency was a setup to bring a federal Europe through the back door, catching every european citizen by surprise, with or against their will. It's happened in Greece, in Spain, in Portugal and is now moving on towards Germany, France, Italy and all the remaining hopeful dopey rest. We owe Brexit, in part, to this wonderful Lady too. May she rest in peace!
lady thatcher ..true legend I love listening to her reminds me to be a strong and tough together lady ..a real inspiration ...
Lady Thatcher bowed out with enormous grace , style and elegance whilst never compromising her ferocious intelligence and wit. May Sir Denis Thatcher and Lady Thatcher as his wife and “Lady “ in her own well earned right , forever Rest In Peace together . They have indeed been laid to rest , side by side .
miss you margaret, im northern and i love you
The Untouchable and irreplaceable Mrs T, we certainly need her likes again. God bless her. 👍🇬🇧
Yes. What a woman. Sure, she wasn't perfect, but she got so much RIGHT, and didn't deserve to go the way she did at the hands of that bastard Heseltine and his acolites. The only good thing there was that he failed to get chosen as Leader - thank God.
I'm a Scot too, and I can see that Mrs.T was without ANY shadow of a doubt, the best peacetime PM in a hundred years.
Had she stayed as Leader, the Tories could have walked the 1997 General Election. That liar Bliar threw away so much of what everyone had fought for, AND got us involved in many wars - AND we ended-up broke AGAIN, as we ALWAYS do after Labour have been in power....!
She certainly stood up for the uk and for what she believed in!! More bollocks than our today leaders by far!!
Oh and how we need her now.
+Jill DeQuincey Yeah, like a bad tooth......RIP, hope this old twat is in hell.....
Thatcher had Bigger balls then, all the men surrounding her. She never needed feminism. Self made woman.
robg71 a true strong and independant woman
Great woman. Gods we need people like her now. Look at the weaklings and children that have replaced her.
Miss you Maggie. You fought for the ordinary person. You are missed.
As long as the ordinary person was among the wealthiest. Else she consistently fought *against* the ordinary person.
Reading the massive amount of disinformation about Thatcher on RUclips, I realize that people who were born after 1990 don't even know that she was ousted because she pushed a tax that was so unfair that it provoked massive unrest in Great Britain. Look up "poll tax" or "Community Charge".
There is a reason why she was and still is hated by those who have lived under her rule, especially in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and northern England, i.e in the less wealthy areas of the UK, that she methodically destroyed. Also she was a racist, bigot, scornful, homophobic, mysogynistic, heartless person.
EU is dictatorship! I greet you from Germany!
*****
Better to support Old Labour who supported the workers, than the Tories who helped the bankers, CEOs and the wealthy. That is what the conservatives did under the vile bitch Thatcher and her right wing cronies.
She protect ur penniless ass by rejecting the idea of a single currency. That alone should've shut your mouth for good.
afiq aziz
She did NOTHING to protect the poor or middle class. She helped the bankers, CEO's, and the wealthy. She oppressed the poor and killed thousands of jobs.
On Europe Thatcher has been proved correct! Something, David Cameron would do well to remember. (6:40 - 8:22)
Most businesses in the UK support the EU.
Get your facts right.
The Browser Most big businesses, not most businesses. Typical EU bullshit.
wasspj
Look again clown. SMEs were included.
Thank fuck we voted leave!
If Thatcher was here today, she would be celebrating what Boris has done - won against the Socialists on 12 Dec 2019 and taken us out of EU on 31st Jan 2020!
I hope Boris will do well to take this country to new heights.
We have gone backwards since she left. The Labour government knocked down my home which I had saved for in cash by living in a car three years. They knocked it down and gave me a shared equity home which will be all there's by the time I die. Lay our also took us into a stupid war which Noone in the UK wanted. I went from being a free speaking artist to a worker for a council with fat cat backstabbers running the businesses without any care for what went on in the front line. Thatcher stood for freedom. You could live in a cardboard box if you wanted to, or you could become an entrepreneur millionaire. These days you get moved on even if you sleep outside a cathedral under God's name. Thatcher let kids buy shares with pocket money and they had money before they even left school. She's the bees knees.
She was fantastic. Being born in 1975 I grew up with Maggie. She was awsome all the students that celebrated her death had no idea of what she achieved.
high unemployment, a strong hatred of the working class. thatcher was a psychopath. i grew up in working class barnsley in the 1980s. the damage she did to the north is disgusting. she only cared about the rich
The Coal miners that worked so slow during the week then did double overtime at the weekends? greedy and taking the piss! I'm Northern and so was Maggie! The bigots and unions,chauvinistic bullies didn't like the fact she stood up to them! FACT! I'm from a family of miners and know this went on.
@@tomgibson6801 You have no proof for your claims.
It is nothing but empty, regurgitated rhetoric.
She did what needed to be done and that’s a fact.
Lol! I'm working class. Thatcher was a legend.
In the words of the Lady herself "Fabulous!" Britain will never have another leader like it, the ONLY politician who was not afraid to stand up for what they believed in, despite public and parliament opinion. It is because of her I feel proud to support the Conservative Party and to be British. And look at us now, most of us hate the EU, giving votes to UKIP, Lady Thatcher warned us of Federal Europe, but they did not listen!
Love her or loathe her, it has to be said that she was a giant among pygmies.
Which brings me to my point. She was very lucky that, for her entire premiership, the opposition was badly led and extremely weak. Foot was a formidable parliamentarian but, by the time he was appointed leader of The Labour Party, he was too old. The world had moved on, and image was deemed to be as, if not more, important than policy. Thatcher understood this, Foot didn't. And as for Kinnock....... he was like a naughty schoolboy quivering with fear in front of the headmistress! If The Labour Party had done what it should have done, and elected Denis Healey as leader when Callaghan resigned, things could have been very different.
Nope. Old or not, it was Foot's policies which were abominable the the majority of the British people, and rightly so.
So was the entire opposition led badly for 11 and a half years during her reign, and then badly again for the last 13 years or maybe there's a fundamental flaw with your party?
Hint*Occams Razor
Wonderful woman, great PM.
You were the best Maggie, miss you x
@@malenurse35 Yeah cause the assholes after her didn't do that either right? Wake up dude, Thatcher was great for Britain, just because you want to keep your head in the sand when it came to those before and after her because you swallow your propaganda like a good boy just out of your disdain for a woman you likely had no knowledge of because you're likely weren't even of legal of age to vote when she was around. Fuck right off. Britain is far worse off now than it EVER was with Thatcher.
You need a Thatcher again.
Deargodwhat tell that to the millions of life’s she fucked up! Are you one of those “I’m alright jack” Tory pricks are you? You sound like it!
Deargodwhat tell me my age! Tell me you know one thing about me??! Nah you can’t. I can tell a STINKING Tory cunt a mile away - YOU!
I admire these kinds of women, in fact, she is one of those women I now collect as my inspiration in life, one of which was Elizabeth I, who ruled England in power with her dedication to its country. I want to remember them in my life now where I think it's I have this battle to either lose millions or get them. Women that inspire me like Margret make me realize i can accomplish what I need to do that very few single women can do. Thank God for giving us people to model like Margret.
SHE IS THE ONLY ONE. WITH GREAT PERSONALITY.
I thoroughly appreciated her clear vision and courage.
never forget the day she left number ten the tears in her eyes ..she was so strong so tough so brave leaving must have been very difficult for her
Yep, she thought she was above all else, nearly royal, immovable... time proved her wrong on that, and - above all - on her economic management. She got lucky her and there, but, made fatal errors, her monetarist view on economy destroyed more than a generation.
What a leader brilliant the labour front bench were just out of thier depth they looked like a bunch of school kids mrs Thatcher was awesome
She is fantastic!!!
What a fabulous leader and how fortunate that the United Kingdom had such a great Prime Minister with her views. We are all in her debt.
I wonder way American's love PMQ's, it's pure theatre! You Imagine Obama in congress receiving hostile shouting and awkward questions? He'd shrivel up! It takes British humour to take such hostility.
R. I. P. To this prominent Woman of politics
Brilliant, simply Brilliant.
Lady Thatcher, you were one of our brightest hours, thank you for reminding of our great heritage. Good Save the Queen.
i think ,she was the worlds finest politician, you could ask her a question at any time and expect a beautifull answer ,,
We need her now
The biggest leader of the second-half of the 20th century, inspired in the biggest leader of the entire 20th century, as her biography says: Churchill
My father worked in a Factory and my Mother was a cleaner. They worked hard and were lucky to be around at this time. They saved bought there first house bought shares. We did not have handouts but because of this women and tory goverment my father and mother for the first time in family history have something substantial to hand down to there loved ones! a great working class hero is what my father says about this women.
margaret was a great man
Ri5004 dying!
Very amazing woman. Even though we were brought up to vote snp She sure was amazing.
Totally agree!.
We all need people and leaders like her in this world. I miss president Reagan too.....
I wish our country had more "honorable gentlemen" and more tough cookies like Maggie Thatcher. She will be missed. Sorely.
a real inspiration she spoke like she meant business ..strong and gutsy good for her
I think that she was a great! Real balls and attitude. Whether her policies were right or wrong for the country, she stood and defended them!! Hats off to you mrs T..
Maggie ...she started girl power ...good for her
Incredible. I am a very pro-Blair supporter and as such I wish we had the political leadership of such resoluteness and conviction today. Margaret Thatcher was a great leader and although I do not agree with her convictions, I can wholeheartedly celebrate her conviction.
One of the strongest women, no, human beings, ever to grace the body politick.
+Zach Zalewski
Hear, hear my friend
Another fellow Scotsman who recognises greatness.
Margaret Thatcher was a truly great, strong and determined leader.
The UK, Europe and indeed the world could do with leaders like Margaret Thatcher now in these troubled times. She had the determination and resolution to see her policies through - policies that were always in Great Britain's interests.
Margaret Thatcher also had some other qualities lacking in many of today's leaders - foresight and vision.
David,
Aberdeen, Scotland.
She was a very honorable woman. Has she been PM of Serbia or Yugoslavia she could have prevented the war
But of course, there is no way she would have been become PM there. And she was not tellling the truth when she said employment got better under her reign. Unemployment was worse for years. That is one of the main reasons you can still see a lot of hatred expressed for her in these comments.
SpectatorAlius she probably would have had she lived here then.
Alex Romanov That is very naive speculation. If she had lived there then, she would not have even the dubiously admired characteristics the conservatives still praise her for: she would have turned out like Ana Pauker instead:(
SpectatorAlius During 13 years of Labour under Blair and Brown, Thatcher and her legacy has been re-written. In reality, she was very popular, brought economic prosperity after a disastrous time under Labour where the IMF took over and debt soared. Labour and the left re-wrote history to paint her as hated and evil. You will find that most people throwing hate-comments at her were born after her time in government and grew up under Labour. If she was really that unpopular and evil, she wouldn't have won so many elections.
DeviatorStress It sounds to me like you are the one doing the rewriting fo hisotry. I remember all too well how people under Thatcher complained bitterly about the very high unemployment under her reign. It took a long tiem for Britain to recover from that -- and that was no thanks to Thatcher.
I am part English and she makes me proud to be English. What fighting spirit. This is being English is all about. When the going gets tough, stiffen that upper lip and stand strong. England should thank her, for she saved them from not being part of the EU.
She was a force of nature. We need more politicians with conviction regardless of their party. Too often in the US you see politicians saying what we know they don't truly believe.
As an American, I have a great deal of respect for Margaret Thatcher's accomplishments in office. I find it hard to understand why my British friends do not feel the same way. Something magnificent happened in the late 1980's when leaders like Thatcher, Reagan, and Gorbechev were on the world stage. We went from a world where nuclear conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact was a REAL possibility to a peaceful coexistence. People tend to forget this too often.
She was certainly an Iron Lady.
Margaret thatcher has been an inspiring Woman for me . Her political journey isn't remembered enough .
Greatest respect to Lady Thatcher
Tomorrow the people of the United Kingdom votes to stay in or leave the European Union. Just imagine, whatever your opinion if Maggie had gone back to Europe instead of David Cameron and specified (not asked) for reforms. I can't help thinking that the country now would be in a lot better shape under her leadership.
Couldn't agree more.
Thatcher would never have signed the Maastrict treaty and as for the Lisbon treaty I think she may have destroyed several of her infamous black handbags over it.
Brexit under Thatcher:
Thatcher: That is the deal the UK are offering.
EU: Sorry we don't agree with it
Thatcher: That is the deal the UK are offering. Let me know when you have changed your minds.
Much more grace than any American Congress women could ever hope to have.
I remember watching this on CSPAN back when they were showing UK parliamentary debates on American television on Sunday evenings, and thinking, how on earth could her colleagues undermine one of the twentieth century's most heroic leaders. What a gallant swan song for a remarkable career.
A magnificient parliamentary debate. It is the type of parlimentary debate most countries should be envious
Hate or love her she is a statesmen long live ur legacy
I love you Margaret. If only Britain had a leader like you today, we might return to a time of prosperity for all and not making the poor poorer and the rich poorer.
God bless you, Lady Thatcher. May your soul be at rest for eternity!!
Thatcher was awesome!!! I wish we had someone like that here in America!!!!
Incredible!
I think that Thatcher was the best PM that the UK has ever had. We need people like her.
A true inspiration and my idol 💗
What is it with the Labour party keep putting forward windbags for their leader ? No one came close to Maggie. Sure mistakes were made but she put the country on a good solid footing and stood up for Britain against the EU.
she was my kind of lady
Reagan and Thatcher, what a pair! The world is a better place because of them.
What a woman, and what a Prime Minister. The free world needs leaders with this kind of strength.
You can wipe the floor with these people! how true!
We need you now. Where are you?
In Hell.
if only we had more people sticking up for Great Britain, RIP Margaret Thatcher and thank you . LEGEND
I'm no fan but you have to admire her for her honestly and no notice attitude
We need another prime minister like this now, someone who isnt scared to grasp the bull by the horns, and try to reverse the damage caused by Labour!.
Whatever your political position and feelings toward her, Baroness Thatcher was a bloody awesome PM. Where in the current pathetic whimpering line-up of politicians is a figure that even comes close to her? I can't find one
What an amazing woman, I have the utmost respect for her...the greatest post-war Prime Minister we have had, no question about it
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - She was the "IRON LADY"! Well missed!!
Cameron's stance in Brussels yesterday was something EVEN THATCHER would be proud of. If this is consistant Thanks to Cameron we could be again a Great Nation with a conservative government. Something which has not been since that woman left office. I hope we can make her proud!
She was so strong .
I am an American who simply enjoys the show that is the Commons. Regardless of political party or belief, Margaret Thatcher has more intestinal fortitude, ability to express her views, and overall aura of leadership and trust than all of those who followed her combined.
She was right about Europe
I'm from the USA, and just beginning to learn a bit of the history of Margaret Thatcher. I am very impressed.
I wish we had another one like her today.
Margaret Thatcher was an extraordinary woman, leader and politician. She transformed Britain from a country going backwards fast to a growing nation on a healthy economic footing. Of course she polarised people, that's what great leaders do - their business is progress not popularity, and such was MT's enormity that she achieved both, you don't become the longest serving PM in 150 years if you're not popular. Thank you Margaret, for your outstanding contribution to this country and the world.