Early Margaret Thatcher Interview Outlines Thatcherism (1976)
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- On 4 October 1976, Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher MP sat down for a lengthy interview with ITN's Julian Haviland to discuss The Right Approach, the Conservative Party policy statement published that day. It aimed to restore "hope and confidence to a disillusioned British people" by offering "a return to common sense". As can be seen in this interview, many of its core principles and proposed policies are the same that would be implemented following Thatcher's election victory in 1979 and which are now commonly referred to under the umbrella of "Thatcherism".
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- Government believes in fair deals for the whole population
- Emphasizes need for restraint in government spending
- Acknowledges importance of trade unions in society
- Criticizes socialism for tolerating high unemployment rates
- Highlights success of North Sea oil in creating new jobs
- Supports consultation with trade unions for fair deals
- Advocates for incentives to boost economy instead of complete restraint
- Addresses need for public expenditure cuts and potential increase in unemployment
- Discusses immigration policy and need to regulate dependent settlement numbers
- Emphasizes importance of understanding facts before making decisions
A time when the hosts would be polite and listen, not make it all about themselves and their bias!
He is biased all right. All his questions are about endangering socialist policies. I greet though, he is polite.
He was constantly interrupting and wasnt listening. He's the same
9:42 Maggie on immigration "We cannot go on taking people at the rate we have been" This interview was in 1976. 😂😂😂
She'd be so angry at Sunak .
Yep, she would sort out the refugee and protest marches problems
in no time !
Fearless and visionary. And an era of quality journalism that allowed detailed answers not inane gotcha rubbish.
I WISH we had SOMEONE like this now
Most of us are thoroughly delighted we do not. Judge her on her record…..a slight increase in unemployment she said……more than doubled.
@@davidk7262 We did. She brought Britain back from begging to the IMF and being unable to bury our dead to be an 80's powerhouse and respected on the worlds stage again. The unfortunate thing is that in the present day, there is no one with this intellect available across any party, I can only imagine her having to deal with the nonsense issues of today like "what is a woman?".
@@davidk7262which then went down as the economy shifted. She was a strong, intelligent leader and had a coherent ideological framework - not playing to the gallery with PR stunts
On economic matters she was truly in tune, the madness of the tories now she would call them socialists.
What a blow dry and colour - spectacular!
MT was for power to the people. To help each person to prosper. Like to think she'd solve the migrant crisis the UK has got.
She was the last good one, whether you liked her or not, you knew who was running things.
Her voice is hypnotic. So velvety and smooth.
This was before her revamp.
Probably one of the best prime ministers Britain has ever had.
These kinds of people are very rare indeed
Lie....... women have nothing to lead with.
absolutely....now its like theres no adults in the room anymore since she left.
Certainly better than the last five Tory goons. But bring superior to Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak is scant reason for celebration, is it?
@@robbillington1982Wasn't expecting to find such an encouraging comment.
Excellent. Today we have the same unsolved problems. We need her politics back.
After what Blair did..
Bravo Thatcher.
The eyes of Caligula the hair of Monroe
😂😂😂😂😂
And the mind of a TRUE LEADER.!!!!
Who wass ousted by her own party
@@louisgonzalez8846 a psychopath more like
More like Myra Hindley
One women prime minister that got things done and not just say it. And yes Maggie thatcher did get things wrong too.
Which human who will not err? Not to the extend of accepting bribes like leaders today 😅
Yeah, she got things done and they were mostly terrible!
She was incredibly articulate, persuasive, and authoritative. A natural leader.
No, she was, I think, rather ordinary. Politicians now are...sub optimal, to say the least. Thatcher's grasp of economics was limited and by the mid 1980s it showed.
@@jimdavis8391 You gotta be kidding. 😆 Just because you don't agree with her politically, doesn't mean that you need to dismiss her as lacking knowledge. Far from it. Her grasp of economics was excellent and she paved the way for the UK's economic resurgence in the 90s.
@@Guardian__Angel Oh, no, I agreed with and still agree with many of her policies. She was, however easily flattered and Keith Joseph, Madsen Pirrie and others were able to manipulate her with ease. Finally 'Tarzan' and the 'sheep' were able to defeat her. Many women possessed skills not dissimilar to Thatcher at that time. A great paradox is that, in the intervening 40 years feminism has largely propelled women backwards. Yet much of Thatcher's politics, especially economics, is that of the small business or shop.
@@jimdavis8391 She was called the Iron Lady for a good reason. Succumbing to flattery and manipulation was simply not part of her leadership style. As for other women at the time possessing similar skills, sure, there were. Thatcher didn't live in a vacuum and she was not the only strong-willed and capable woman in the country. Yet, she was the only one who became Prime Minister and had her way, so you need to give her credit for that.
@Guardian__Angel Sorry I disagree with you regarding her economic abilities. In the short term she was effective at curbing the power of the unions and balancing the books. Longer term her naivety regarding human behaviour caused untold damage to the social fabric and cohesion of Britain. Up until c1985 pretty good afterwards, patchy. The obsessive privatisation has been clearly shown to be foolhardy at best. I think my judgement of her is a balanced one. In some ways Blair's first administration mirrors that of Thatcher, after 2001 he became increasingly dogmatic and detached from reality. Those who are truly great are able to accept flux and react fluidly and Thatcher was by the mid 80s overly doctrinaire and her lack of 'human resources' became painfully obvious.
Listen to her conviction. Mrs T knew her stuff. How we need someone like her now.
Liz Truss had conviction too. You need pragmatists not stubborn ideologues like this dreadful woman. The Poll Tax was her undoing and in point of fact once Willie Whitelaw had gone and was no longer a restraining influence on her she went full loco.
Doesn't make her right. She listened to no one and was an utter task master (mistress)
Le Président Emmanuel Macron de la République Française, serait bien inspiré d’écouter ce que dit Maggy. Mais bon, comme le disait Brassens : « le temps ne fait rien à l’affaire, quand on est … »
Et Maggy confirme : It is a very silly person who says: I am going bankrupt the way I am spending, but I cannot afford to stop. »
Jeanne au secours!
Браво Маргарет!
Мы любим Вас!
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Private enterprise turned out really well, except it needed bailing out with public money to an extent never seen before
Why didn't private Enterprise just reduce its spending as she suggested ?
@@HepCatJack because that's the nature of capitalism, it's characterised by greed, inherent in every aspect of enterprise from financial institutions to market places.
@@adamsmith4813 Yet socialism always falls to greed also. Funny that, isn't it?
@@0w784g is that greed because of the inherent nature of the socialist premise or because it hasn't conquered capitalism fully yet?
I know you will say 'greed is human nature and socialism and capitalism are subject to it' but this is not the case in humans outside of civil society
@@adamsmith4813 Ah, you're going for the tried and true "we've never had proper socialism" route.
I absolutely adore her but it’s so odd to see that hair colour 😄
My thoughts exactly 😆.
She wasn't supposed to be a playboy bunny you know..
It’s almost as if Trump and Boris saw this back then and ordered some hair rinse.
@@twyscape Boris and trumputin (pee pee tapes) are clowns, but they have some heavy duty Fascists in their entourage... ps trumps hobby was/is listening to Hitter videos.. I do that too, but only so I can be a more effective spoiler
She looks fit.
She excoriated 1.5 million unemployed “under socialism” then under her economically illiterate approach it peaked at 3.3 million. But still people rave on about her “drive”, “purpose” and “achievements”.
Iconic hairstyle
What a pleasant voice she has and her English is a delight to my ears.
"how many are entitled to come" ... apparently almost every one of them.
She did bring many needed reforms I agree but there has to be balance!
She was completely correct in protecting the NHS. Good for her on that one at least.
Ah, so that's where von der Leyen got her hairstyle from.
I must be getting old because Thatcher now looks good to me.
😂
Again, most women in the 70s were hot compared with the lardy, ill mannered monsters we are sadly familiar with today.
@@jimdavis8391 They are more obnoxious today which definitely is a turn off.
@@acousticguitarcrazy6385 My mother is dead.
She did what was good and necessary for the whole nation in the long run, instead of virtue-signalling and pandering to what seemed trendy and popular. She was strong in values and principles, and yet was able to realise them through practical means.
In other words, she was the very definition of a great leader.
Except now we've had the long run we can now realise how simple and ridiculous her policies and ideology were. Even the tories have just about abandoned anything she stood for
@@adamsmith4813 the Tories have been in decline precisely because they abandoned her approach. She brought Britain back from the brink of socialist abyss, it was well recognised and documented. Then the UK had a string of weak, ignorant politicians who care more about how they look in front of the public than the public.
One of the very few interviews with a blonde Thatcher
That was the first thing I noticed before I clicked, it's not flattering. Her hairdresser must've got a good thrashing after.
@@JamesKing-el3ry Apparently, she went blond for her husband. Her natural hair color was a fairly dark brown. When she was going to be prime minister, her political team told her she would have to soften the blonde or voters might not take her seriously. That's when she went to the more reddish color we became familiar with.
If only we had her vision and determination now!
We do have the hindsight and that's what makes her look so stupid now
“The only things I have in my life are the things I’ve got by my own work.”
Utter BS. She married a millionaire in 1951, and he paid for her training as a barrister, bankrolled her political career and put her up in accommodation in Chelsea before they were married. The idea she achieved anything solely off her own bat is laughable.
Untrue, she put herself through university. And paid off that by working as a chemist and lived very frugality with a female flatmate. This was a few years before marriage to Dennis. Your hatred and jealous, knows no bounds.
@@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus Since when is stating facts and calling out lies ‘hatred’? It is a matter of fact that her marriage to Denis (and reliance on his resources) bankrolled her political ambitions, career, candidature for parliament and childcare.
Also her previous 2nd degree in the Law was paid for by her husband. Her first degree was funded by the state via a grant.
Every reputable biography of Thatcher narrates these facts.
@@Knappa22She understood the value of hard work. No matter the circumstances of her marriage. She had a very good work ethic you just sound bitter that some people are more fortunate than others. You will never live a happy life that way.
What’s stopping you marrying into money?
@@manmaje3596 The thread of these replies is quite fascinating. Aspersions about ‘hatred’, ‘jealousy’, ‘bitterness’. I assume by these personal attacks that you cannot counter the facts I laid out, and that this is all you, and the other one, can resort to
What are you talking about? She set the best example anyone could for a young woman.
She put the word GREAT back into Britain
GREAT FAILURE...the working class were what made this country great...and as has now been proved...she lied lied and damn well lied... to destroy them...never interested in negotiations...lies...and sold us to the Neiliberal's model of casino capiltalism...now see where that has taken us.. we are broke...all our crown jewels paid for by hard working tax paying workers...given away to tax evading rich...who simply wanted to be more rich...with no thought for the masses and those working class communities...what goes around comes around...she and her followers will go through the gates of hell...and much of the south as known from the prophecies of Irlmaier will lay on the ocean bed after the Russians nuke the east coast,,,then, and only then...finally...the north and the UK will be free of the imperial colonialists and thieving rich...
Brilliant woman ❤
🤦♂️
@@dindjarin7185Only now, 40 years later have we returned to the kind of chaotic strikes we had before she entered office in #1979. She saved Britain from union malarky for decades.
@@aclark903 She destroyed Britain. Plus, in her first years in office, there was a recession and rising unemployment.
@@aclark903 Let's not forget she and her party were part of the Hillsborough conspiracy.
Awful woman
Never heard the word "issue" pronounced "eee-cee-oo" before
How did we come from this to the likes of Boris, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.
Too many poles
Absolute straight line - hope she’s rotting in hell.
@@mtarkesMore like Middle Easterners and Asians.
@@mtarkes poles? They were never the ones that were an issue. I doubt they want to come to the UK anymore. Soon we'll see people leaving the UK to go to Poland the way things are.
As an Australian, I liked Boris but I don’t know what it would be like under his government. When he had Covid, someone suggested they comb his hair whilst he was under sedation.
Are we sure this is Thatcher? It wasn't one of David Bowie's less well known 70s "personae" was it? Somewhere between the Thin White Duke and "Low" eras?
"This woman is headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated." - ICI Personnel Dept. rejecting her job application of the then Margaret Roberts in 1948
Perfect description of her. A sound leader listens to others. Even the queen quipped that Mrs T was more royal than herself 😂 To quote Mrs T, "The lady's not for turning" - and she wasn't.
@@misst.e.a.187 I edited my comment to add that this quote was the assessment from a job interview she did in 1948.
her assessment from job interview ICI in 1948 , is it from her autobiography ?
She died alone in a hotel room, abandoned by her family. "There's no such thing as society" indeed.
The "hotel room" was a suite at the Ritz, at the behest of the Barclay brothers who owned it.
Abandoned? Really? Why do you say that? Is every person who dies alone abandoned?
Poetic justice!
Just compare Thatcher and.............and............Yeah Kamala Harris😅
Oh she loved Wales , Northern Ireland and Scotland ...didn't she ?
She would have given them independence.👍
She was an accomplished, self-made woman. But she leaves out the part where she married a millionaire. The boss’s son, no less.
That's complete nonsense. Besides she wasn't interested in pettiness.
Well she wasn't very poor, her background was just made humble due to the fact that her father was a well-off store owner, politician and a Methodist preacher.
Would you rather she married a poor man with no prospects? She wanted prosperity for you and me . And herself. Her speeches against socialism are clear on this.
@@19037vinny Her speeches are only a sign on her having a rather delusional picture on reality, and are nothing else than political jargon and twisting of facts to get people to support something that is not favourable to them in reality.
I don’t see why it matters she didn’t win elections because she married a millionaire. She won because she was capable and she was essentially a human Google.
The dreadful woman who sold off U.K. social housing and didn’t replace it!!! One of the reasons house prices are so high in the U.K. now! ☹
Built more council homes than Blair. And I fail to understand how her selling houses onto the market increased prices.
@@teacakess420 it's called less availability. Less availability = increase In price.
Anyway, she's in hell now.
It's called right to buy. After all why should the council dictate your ownership?
@@louisharper3955 Less availability wouldn't have anything to do with record population increase due to record migration for the last 20 years, would it?
@@louisharper3955 "less availability"
The houses haven't exactly vanished, they're all still right there!
Half a million now a year Mrs T
Wonder how much hairspray was used in the making of that hairstyle!
I remember my gran used to use Bristows hair spray and it used to make her smell like an alcoholic
She was very old at this year
She robbed the Hoover pension pot,the Hoover plant in Merthyr Tydfil South Wales 90 million in the pot,the cow took 40 million left the works with 50 million,my late dad was one at Hoover,this cow robbed him of is pension..Fked up the coal,steel making,but Considering she was hated,how the hell was she there for 11 and a half years?????
Feels a bit weird that I think this the first time I’ve seen Slim Shady whipped cream Thatcher? How long was she this blonde?
She was always this blonde all the way through her career, until just before the election in 1979, when the image makers told her she was "too blonde to be taken seriously."
Mrs Thatcher was the best Prime Minister that the U.K. ever had, besides Winston Churchill - and she showed up Labour for their hypocrisy, proving that she was far more socialist than they ever pretended to be, which is why she was hated long after her passing, right up to the present day, where many of her common sense based reforms and policies were reversed after her passing - it’s such a pity that members of her own party eventually stabbed her in the back - we will never have a leader like her ever again - and frankly, she would have handled the credit crunch, 9/11, Brexit and Covid far better than the incompetent fools currently in power
And what planet were you living on in the 1980s ?? This evil cow destroyed the working class ... She targeted the most vulnerable in society(which she didn't believe in). Just like all Tories
The economics of the madhouse
Margret knew what the score was and told us what the score was, will be
The legacy of thatcherism (by the end of the 80s):
• unemployement increased dramatically
• homeless were everywhere, many of them with mental illness
• cuts were made in public services, but payments to royalty and aristocracy increased
• the falklands war was absolutely avoidable
• police beated population during manifs time after time
• all the minorities were kept in the closet
• public schools and hospitals were out of basic resources
• "sharp elbows, sharp knees" broke social cohesion
• opportunities for the disabled decreased or blocked
• negligible economic growth
Unemployment began falling by 1987.
Inflation decreased rapidly within the first four years.
The economy was booming for the first time since WW2 by the early nineties.
People kept far more in their earnings and no longer taxed heavily away by Labour.
Argentina invaded the Falklands which the Falklands were and still is a British Territory.
You really are a deluded troll.
Greatest Prime Minister we have ever had only benefit scrounging scum would say a bad word against her. Most of these listed she inherited from Labour. She saved the UK her legacy was so good the next Labour party kept her policies.
In the seventies the school milk was great in mini glass bottles. It was mostly cold. Admittedly, heading toward June it would probably be warm...most of the time it was nice and cold. But it did have to be drank early, as it was not refrigerated
I always supported her as she spoke plainly get the facts and heed them,wish she was still in power!!😮
I lived in the Republic of Ireland as a Catholic and as a teenager during the 1980’s when Mrs Thatcher was in power and I admired and respected her stance on Northern Ireland, the IRA and on the Falklands - I knew that she and our Taoiseach Charles J Haughey of the Fianna Fáil party in Dáil Éireann were great friends - I also knew that the IRA and Sinn Fein had betrayed the Irish people even back then, even though most of the coverage of events in the U.K. was via our national broadcaster RTÉ at the time and the U.K. newspapers - I only moved to Manchester U.K. in 2002 and I was horrified by what I’d seen and the fallout of the IRA bombings in Manchester, but despite my embarrassment, I did initially point out to my English friends that the IRA had also bombed targets in Dublin and elsewhere in the Republic, such as with Lord Mountbatten in Co. Sligo
@@michaeljohndennis2231The IRA was blowing up much of London back then, too. The action, or threat of, was a regular occurrence that I recall.
@@misst.e.a.187 this is correct - and I very much admired and respected Mrs. Thatcher’s stance on this at the time, even as a teenager growing up in Rural Ireland - at that time too, when they were a proper broadcaster, RTÉ refused to have any interviews with Sinn Fein and we only found out later during Covid that Sinn Fein were Marxist traitors to the Irish people - also during Covid, the IRA never once attempted to defend the Irish people, using the Northern Ireland Peace Process as an excuse
It outlines Milk-snatcherism 😂😂
She's more orange than Trump.
Total fake, had fanatic Labour guy Bernard Ingham with thick Yorkshire accent as her spokesman!
All of the warning signs were there
I always thought that she was Tim Brooke Taylor in drag.
Except she was one of the baddies
There’s no other politician in any party today that matches her intellect and communication. Same can be said for journalists.
Not today, current politicians of all hues are self serving minnows compared to Thatcher and many of her cabinet, as well as those in Labour and the SDP of the 1970s.
Now!, compare this ladies demeanour to that of Angela 😂😂😂😂, not even comparable 😂😂😂
Wow!
The things I've got in life are from my own mother's dodgy arms deal
Mark Thatcher...
How Marlyn Monroe would have looked like in her 50s..
So every unemployed person is because of socialism? Such bollocks 😂
She sure had bollocks
Yes, she did make that claim. How unwise
The biggest scourge of the country 1979 was the worst year for all of us,thanks to millions of housewives
A big hand for her hairdresser..👏👏
Thatcher the milk snatcher🥛
One cut that crossed the line with many a parent
Perhaps it should be remembered that this was a policy of the Wilson government who stopped free milk to secondary schools and had they won the 1970 election would have continued to cut it.
There weren’t obese kids in her day.
To this day I thank God for the then minister of education getting rid of the milk we were forced to drink and the went on to save the UK from bankruptcy
weird how it's in 1976 and she looks like Station To Station era Bowie...
Didn't know they wore denim jackets.
So many fan girls frothing in their appreciation of "The Milk Snatcher"
@prd1073 Fact: 1968 Edward Short, the Labour Secretary of State for Education and Science, withdrew free milk from secondary schools for children over eleven. His successor, Conservative Margaret Thatcher withdrew free school milk from children over seven in 1971, earning her the nickname "Thatcher, the Milk Snatcher".
It was LABOUR that withdrew milk for children over the age of 11. Thatcher expanded it to children above 8. Shirley William's, as a Labour politician, cut it altogether for children between 5 and 7 in 1976.
The milk was not refrigerated, often disgusting having turned or curdled and there were multiple incidents of food poisoning from spoiled and contaminated milk. Fewer children needed milk at school due to the general rise in living conditions and overall better nutrition. Free milk in school was introduced during WWII when there was rationing.
So, the Thatcher, milk snatcher' label is pretty unjustified, when the accusation primarily should be levelled at 2 LABOUR politicians, Edward Short and Shirley Williams (later a founder of the SDP and then became a Liberal Democrat).
I fucking hated the school milk. Always warm and sour.
@@gutbut Ha! memory unlocked, soooo true!
If what you say was true. How come free school milk was available when I was at school in the 90's then?@@shelleyphilcox4743
TBF, I'm no tory lover, she did us kids a favour at the time....milk was fkin vile....still hate it to this day. And BTW, I'm not vegan. Love almond milk on my granola. 😂
Now I know why she was originally known as the ‘Blonde Bombshell’ when all I had seen was a ginger look.
I seem to remember Labour leader Jim Callaghan saying to her "I must congratulate the Right Honourable Lady on being the only man in her Cabinet."
To which Thatcher replied "Well that's one more man than you've got in yours."
Ah Maggie, you must mention the sosialist system ya , but look at your beloved UK today. Too bad you are gone.
She was a severe mistake
Glad, she's gone.
She was evil
She ended socialism in the UK. Never has a truly left wing government been in power since 1979. God bless her. ❤️
Why is she wearing a crash helmet?
Couldn’t stand her .
However , she always gave a straight answer !
Imagine bumbling Boris instead?
She was fucking brilliant
Is an expletive necessary? 🤨
She would freak out today with 5 million on the dole ,we have a society of entitled.
That was never her ideal.
Witch
Jesus - what did she do to her hairdresser??? That colour is so brassy; cadaverous almost. Appropriate, no?
I give you a Von Der Leyen, you give me a Maggie T. Please.
I can't believe she had this hair colour
Love to go back to Maggie & the 80s.
Her hair looks like her mates Jimmy Saville
9.25 we need a dependents register now.
Donald Trump's hair inspiration
Thanks to T H A T C H E R
... today 1/2 of UK is with 1 foot in homelessness
Mother.
She was hated so much because people could not conceptualise her analysis of a working economy. There are many governments that spend their way out of an injured economy instead of investing it where it really is needed. It not always needed in private enterprise because most private enterprises that are successful have the resources to be successful, however the reality is that government will bail out bad enterprises sooner than assist and help good enterprises
When all our presents fractured society began with the importation of millions from the colonies I just don’t know why they didn’t listen to the people who never once voted for any kind of immigration.😢
3 million unemployed in her first term…
By the time of a 1984 BBC interview, she stated that figure.
She ils reincarnated in Nikki Haley.
*_Жаль нет суббтитров._*
Margaret Thatcher is a great leader.
Dodgy hair dye in 76
I love her colourisation
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Divided the country by splitting it into winners and losers. Treated half the nation as enemies. Horrendous woman.
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