Margaret Thatcher interview | An interview with the Prime Minister | This Week | 1987
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- This is the first major TV interview Mrs. Thatcher has given since the Election. In the six. months since then world stock markets have crashed and the advance of popular capitalism does not look as inevitable as it once did. The continuing crisis in the Health Service and the Government’s revolutionary plans for education have made a controversial beginning to the next five years.
What sort of society does Mrs. Thatcher want to be in place when she retires from public office?
First shown: 10/12/1987
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Who is here after watched Crown Season 4 trailer ??
Yep😂.
Me! I am actually watching season 4 now!
😂🤣 I had to see did she actually speak like the way they portrayed she doesn’t Evan sound like that wtf u can tell the show is pure bs if they over exaggerated her voice
@@shaneali9598 Yup, I came here for the same reason! She doesn't sound like that at all and her hair looks very different from the show.
Same! I can see the actors veins in the neck popping out when she speaks. Lmao.
i came here to listen to her voice after watching gillian in the crown..i was curious to see why thatcher talks like that...but now i think the makers have overdone her voice in the crown..even the facial expression of gillian is way too much...so unfair to the real figure
I really hated Gillian's portrayal. Meryl Streep did a much much better job.
I'm here for exactly the same reason and completely agree 👍
I absolutely agree! Gillian Anderson plays her as if she has had a stroke or something. She also plays her coldly, but Thatcher was not cold at all, typical of Lefty's to do this... I'm Indian and I love Thatcher and all she stood for.
@J LD exactly.. Im a millennial so when I found this out I was so shocked and knew that I was not hearing the truth about her. The fact is that people loved her, her own ministers eventually didnt have the balls (so to speak) to stick by her. But the radical Left which is now just the Left are delusional and suffer from cognitive dissonance. I wish the Tory party had someone like her today!
@J LD Well said. Well said indeed.
I love the way she speaks. Her pronunciation is marvellous ;)
Not common in the UK at all
She would have learnt to speak like this. It wasn't the accent of the area she came from or her social class she grew up in.
@@DistantCousin I read she wanted to be understood by everyone
@@___Victoria_sunny it wasn't that successful. The type of elite, "grand" accent she developed only served to make her seem out of touch, posh, unrelatable - but without the charm of, say, The Queen.
@@DistantCousin Im from so Spain so I dont know! Thanks for the info
Never avoids answering a question! We need this today! 🇬🇧🙏
12:17 *"There will come a time when not even the great United States can go on living beyond its means."*
oof wow
Why was Thatcher talking about America reducing its deficit? And why was she asked if she wanted that?
That’s not the buisness of a British PM
@@christophermcdonough8320 I'm so sorry that another country's leader dared to comment on the US's economic policies. Not like they have an impact on the rest of world.
@@christophermcdonough8320 Christ, you Americans. She's talking about principles. That's what the English do well and Americans do so badly.
Mrs Thatcher was not only beautiful but had the finest brain in the country. Even though she genuinely adored the monarchy it is understandable that the Queen felt intimidated by her. The Queen had no proper education and obviously felt intimidated by her. The series TheCrown showed what a foolish lot the royals were and how crude and ignorant they were in treating their guests. The film The Iron Lady was unacceptable . There should have been a film made celebrating all her brilliant qualities. I am old now but Margaret Thatcher was to me one of the best women in the past and present years. If only we could find someone else with her qualities.
totally agree - beautiful woman who was always in charge
Actually, it was Thatcher who was intimidated by the monarch.
@@lady5049 not intimidated - overly deferential more like it.
The Queen was well educated.
Netflix over dramatized her voice in the crown , it was very annoying to listen o the actress in the crown
The tone was right, but she spoke too slowly, it made her sound like she was drugged and lethargic
Exactly.
Hated it..sounded very contrived
Sadly, Gillian Anderson’s impersonation of Margaret Thatcher was a narrow caricature which missed the nuances that made Thatcher such an engaging personality. She did not capture Thatcher’s twinkly eyes and smiles. She did not capture the speed or fluency of Thatcher’s delivery and the way she occasionally slowed down, deepened her voice and steadied her gaze in order to emphasise an important point. If Thatcher had been anything like the living corpse that Gillian Anderson has given us, she would have bored everyone to death and would not have been elected PM three times in 1979, 1983 and 1987.
Clear Questions and Clear Answers! I miss the old behavioural code of being clear, polite and straightforward.
There needs to be a middle ground.
Nowadays there seems to be an assumption that a politician must be lying and so it becomes trying to get a “GOTCHA!” moment
This interview is too deferential; Thatcher is given quite substantial time to answer and her answers are not actually challenged or dissected any further.
There needs to be a balance - Politicians need to be given room to answer a question; but interviewers should also be able to push back when answers are unsatisfactory
@@billydeeuk
yes i agree
@@billydeeuk I personally think this was conducted very well u wont find anything even as good as this now 😂
Straightforward? Are you kidding? Give Maggie a posthumous Oscar!
@@billydeeuk There was a lot of badgering on the NHS topic.
Highly intelligent and beautiful woman!!! Bravo Margaret!!!
@@kNegzyx Rubbish...no free hand outs unless its single parents.
@@kNegzyx who’s paying for the milk!? The taxpayer
@@josephhilditch5086 yeah, same taxpayer who paid to carry her feckless son out of the desert when he got lost.
I get that loads of folk hate her guts but holy shit. She was way more articulate than most of the jokers you seen on the TV nowa6
Not just her everyone in previous times 😂
@@hsd287 Don't lie. No one compared to Margaret Thatcher back in the day.
@@SyndicateOperative no I meant ppl on previous decades compared to now
But far more people liked her. You don't win 3 General Elections in a row by being so unpopular. If people looked at Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters, with all their chanting, you would have thought he was incredibly popular and sure to win the 2019 Election. And we all know how that worked out. Personal popularity is not as important as trust in politics and the people with their childish and vitriolic attacks on Margaret Thatcher should, perhaps, grow up.
The ones who hated her are short sighted leftists.
Every syllable she uttered is stamped with authority, confidence, and no nonsense clarity. And her politeness never left her .
Did Gillian Anderson even watch Thatcher whilst prepping? She caricatures her, she doesn't portray her.
She is a good actress but she did well in my opinion👌🏻🥰
yeah WTF she talks extremely slowly
Anderson IS NOT British. She could NEVER adopt an English accent. Not EVER!
@@highphysics3617 have you even read Anderson's bio?
@@highphysics3617 you go portray her there mate hahahahaha
Here for the same reason Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were in office in my high school and early college years. When I saw The Crown's portrayal of Thatcher, my first reaction was, "That was not lady I remembered." She is horribly portrayed in The Crown.
Jeez she is so on top of every answer. Love her or loathe her, she knew her brief in incredible detail;. Dimbleby doesn't land many blows here, whereas he would trample most of our politicians today.
Love or hate her on her political ideology/policy, you have to admit - MT never wavered from answering difficult questions, never tried to be something she was not it or tried to please anybody for the sake of pleasing others. And was honest in her answers. Never promised unrealistic ideals, which some leaders are too prone to do.
As a South African 🇿🇦 It's dissapointing she didn't sign sanctions against Apartheid as part of the commonwealth but will ALWAYS have mad respect for her as a woman in a man's world. I mean it's badass to negotiate on nuclear weapons, work really hard toward wanting a war free world (well for the 80s that is). There are many woman today in varying institutions working in the global political arena working towards the same. #breakingtheceiling
She didn't support sanctions because she believed sanctions inadvertently hurt the poorest most. And in effect, she was right if we look around the world where sanctions have been applied (eg. Cuba, etc).
@@jaredt8526 I half agree with you on that point. The thing is the ANC and other freedom fighting movements were fighting for political freedom first at the time. The ANC's policy was first to gain political freedom and then work towards economic freedom. However, after gaining political freedom, and even though they have been in power for all of our democratioc dispensation, they have not achieved this. So I understand why she was not for it because what happens after gaining political freedom? So yes, she was right in the long-term, but she could have helped towards political freedom at least? Her views on the ANC and other political struggle heroes was also not favourable. But that is a debate for another time entirely that I am not equipped to argue about that just yet and this is also a very nuanced and complex issue to discuss. And even though South Africa did not gain economic freedom yet, the way the west likes to do things is just leave their mess where they made it. So I half agree with you.
While I like Gillian Andersen, I think she spoke waaaay too slowly as Thatcher. Meryl Streep did a better job.
Gillian played Thatcher when she was prime minister, Streep played a much older version of her so I don't know how could there be a comparison.
@@astronautadejakku9699 Meryl played both the older and prime minister thatcher ..
@@Perksofbeingglow exactly - she played the time of her being prime minister throughout the film
@@Perksofbeingglow sorry, I watched that film a long time ago and I didn't even like it, but anyways. Streep's accent was good but it sounded rather odd, maybe a little bit off and distracting whereas Gillian's accent is very good but of course, she's half brit.
@chitsb I was thinking exactly the same thing. I wanted to see if she really talked that slowly, and I think even Gillian Andersen's hairdo was overdone
Such confidence. Awesome leader.
As Harold MacMillan said of her: "Now there's a real leader. Whether she's leading in the right direction....." So many of the problems we face today can be directly traced back to what she did.
Prime ministers today never submit themselves to this kind of grilling.
She has a very soothing voice. It’s almost pleasurable to listen to.
Sadist. I lasted three minutes.
As an American I would be so interested in Mrs. Thatcher's analysis of President Trump. I think she would give very insightful comments. Of course she would absolutely NOT be suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome!
I'd like to ask Trump what he thinks of Thatcher. I find her absolutely inspiring. She was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th Century. The last leader that Britain had that made that country a serious global superpower, rather than a secondary player to Russia/China and the US. Britain used to matter, and she did the very best anyone had in nearly 30 years prior to her to make her matter again.
@@Lieutenant_Dude I'm sure President Trump has an extremely high opinion of Prime Minister Thatcher. He likes and truly respects people like her and what she did for the U.K.!
@@johnscanlan9335 Drumpf has high opinion of only one person. Himself. Everyone else is Sad, Dump, Loser etc And you sir are an idiot for placing such significance on that charlatan clown
Find me a single thing you know about trump that you didn't hear in the media.
Marx himself would refer to these fools as 'useful idiots'. Thatcher would have supported Trump 100%
Simply put, I love her!
THANK YOU ThamesTV!!! You rock
And I love our little ritual ;)
Olivia Coleman looks more like Thatcher than Gillian Anderson...
That's what I was thinking! I thought, they should've allowed Olivia to play Thatcher and some other actress who resembles Claire Foy, to play The Queen.
But Gillian's performance was brilliant
@@joshportnoy8102 no, Josh, Gillian’s performance is like a living corpse. Just look at this interview - Thatcher is far lighter in tone and less funereal and has a twinkle and smile at times and only occasionally slows down her voice and deepens it in order to emphasise a particularly point.
@@davidlondon2810 i don't think the imitation matters so much as the impression. From the little I know about acting, she's doing a method acting style where she's adapting the character to her. But you can tell it a great performance when she gives you genuine anxiety at certain moments particularly when she's listening to what the queen said in the news and went "really?" Like you can feel this person is a serious threat, you don't want to mess with. And that's where I find the perfomance was well captured.
I love gillian but ya olivia would have played her really well
OMG I love her!
She was without a doubt an extremely articulate, highly intelligent woman. So, with all the footage available to her to watch and listen to, why did Gillian Anderson manage to single handedly derail The Crown, by playing Mrs Thatcher as a pantomime dame, and give one of the most ridiculous on screen performances on television in recent memory. And why was she allowed to get away with it?
I think she was instructed to do so. Reading between the lines, The Crown comes through as leftist and anti-monarchical.
@@naly202 As does nearly everything these days
Because she’s shagging the showrunner but sounds like she has bronchitis
The poison of the left seeps in everywhere. They wanted to misrepresent her to ensure that those currently brainwashed by the left, stay that way.
The Iron Lady
Meryl streep 😂
I have to watch that movie still.
The wicked witch.
Wicked witch. Milk Snatcher
@@Rodrigoo124 If only you had half of her brains...
Seeing this I wouldnt say Gillian Anderson did a good job impersonating her.
I'm very confused by all the raves.
Gillian portrays a very slow moving woman which, clearly, is not like the real Thatcher.
Like many others, I’m here to compare Gillian Anderson’s portrayal to the real Iron Lady. It’s a terrible, wheezy characterization. She must have needed an inhaler after filming every scene.😏
The voice is really similar, but I would say that Gillian talks too slowly.. she would be perfect if the pace were a little bit faster.
@@alessandram9367 Exactly. Gilliand's character looks like she's about to burst in tears, she was nervously swallowing, her chin was unaturally trembling. It was awkward to watch her.
So many years ahead of her time, and the reason Falklands are still British.
She was an incredible and amazing politician(and woman in general). She made a great contribution to the world. Her story is the best example for us. P.S. IMHO She has a Russian pronunciation a little.))) P.S.S I"M FOND OF INTERVIEWER'S VOICE!
Greatest PM of all time
Lmaooooooo.
@@kNegzyx troll
@@kNegzyx She would wipe the floor with you and everyone you know.
@@jimneil2458 I've never seen anybody passionately defend anyone in my entire life, Jim youre inlove with a dead woman
Mrs. Margaret Thatcher was an extremely wise woman. God bless this woman's spirit.
a psychopath
@@venedikterofeev5861 People who make claims about people they don't even know are normally projecting themselves.
she's with satan now, where she belongs
Why does the actress in the crown speaks with an awfull voice...margareth didnt even speak like that
Baroness Thatcher was well educated,articulate,radiated confidence even when under attack by Brit journos. She had poise,and,grace that came naturally. Neither Meryl Streep,or,Anderson could EVER play a role...and it was play acting, that was anything like the very real Margaret Thatcher. Last night I listened to the very first interview, I have on CD,after she became Prime Minister. Some ratbags would do well to listen to some of her real interviews,and,forget about the stupid movie portrayal. Get the Audio book if you are for real. It's free. It's superb.
What Gillian Anderson made of her in the Crown is total assassination of her personality, speech.....It's like a bad parody of her!!
I think Gillian played the part of a heartless, greedy psychopath incredibly well
She was very clever.....
What a lady. It must be a hard job to use tax payers money and use it wisely, which I believe she has done, and spend it to fund the NHS, education/schools, defence, social security etc etc and still keep every one happy. There are many big mouths who have something to say and yet she got up to PM and did something about her passion for the people. I personally loved her.
What a Woman ! I definitely admire her !
I'm from Russia and I do too
Nikos Mars we all do
For what?
@@christopherone1 Strength, intelligence, brave, cared and always fought for her country. I can go on?
@@christopherone1 Because she and Reagan helped to dismantle communism. I am from the Czech rep. and she was very popular here. But you know, nemo propheta in patria sua.
When we listen to those that advocate for government to provide, they always say the more must be given.
But in order for government to give more, the government must take more.
I miss her so much 😢
Freak
@@bazkid5739 you're the minority...you must be part of the loony left.
@@jimneil2458 nah, I can't get behind any political party, there's too much good & bad with both sides. They're there to cause division, for example you hear me talk about someone I believe to be an evil person and you instantly come act me assuming I give the slightest fuck about politics
If only she was around today to fight the woke loonies
@@chriscalvert5887 not woke but she's still awful
History proved Maggie right on this issue 🇬🇧
What a woman. God bless you Mrs Thatcher 🇬🇧🇬🇧
She is roasting in hell. Where she belongs with her genocidal mates
I wish I had been my age during this era, instead I was born right in the middle of Blairs.
Ya but then you would be a grandpa by now 😅
I was looking forward to Anderson's portrayal, but unfortunately, she WAY overacts. Her scenes sound like the video playback speed is .5.
I remember how popular Thatcher was then in Soviet. Although she romanticizes Gorbachev. He was ignorant and inconsistent.
We need her today more than ever the "Iron Lady" RIP
I don't think we have anything else to privitise or sell off now 🤣
@@gazman2626 XD
People forget what England was like before Thatcher, her reforms were so popular that even when in power Labour could not undo her work.
Britain was very lucky to have her as a leader. Every prime minister since has been a disappointment.
Aye. Poplar in England... you sir are an idiot. There was a massive street party in Glasgow when she died and the number 1 song in Britain was “ding ding the witch is dead”
She sounds so popular
@@tonyoliver4920 So now you feed off of memes and actually execute them in reality. Congratulations for being subjugated to the internet leftist propaganda machine.
Aye, when I were a lad I would shit in me sisters mouth so that she had enough energy to fuck the punters that me ma' couldn't handle. Then Thatcher came along and put a stop to it.
@@madwatermelon1316 Even Tony B.?
@@romainreuter9604 Yeah. He was the biggest disappointment considering how much faith people had in him when he first got into power.
I love this woman so much 😂
Why? She's horrible
I love her. I wish should would have been ours. If this were an American interview, she would have been pestered by personal and irrelevant questions, constantly interrupted and timed like a three minute egg.
It's so incredible how she could switch from lofty foreign policy discussion to highly specific domestic economic questions and answer the questions effortlessly. I can't imagine any politician doing that today. If RFK Jr. won the 2024 election, I could maybe see him doing it, but it would be tainted by the stench of appeasement in his foreign policy beliefs.
Different class of politician - and style of journalism
BP stock price in 1987 - ~ £3. Today - ~$40.
Amazing Woman - If only we had someone like this now..
Rose West is still alive so we do
Back when politicians were trying to reduce the presence of nuclear weapons.
"There goes a woman who will never fight another general election" - Willie Whitelaw, 1987
Just watched the Crown Season 4?
Jesus!, this broad knew her stuff. A masterclass in Politics. Imagine Joe Biden or Kamala Harris sitting thru this interrogation.😆
what a woman she was, especially here in her dominant prime!
God bless the Baroness
I came here because the government needs a leader
This week come on the Thursday evening
Gillian Anderson does not cut it. She is an insult to Baroness Thatcher. D Margaret Thatcher was one of the most articulate,composed women ever to grace British parliament. Forget Streep....forget Gillian Anderson. Watch the genuine speeches on you tube. Neither of them will EVER "get" her voice. One would need her education,and poise...naturally.
I'm 20 years old. It brings me great pain that my generation don't just dislike but despise Margaret Thatcher.
The greatest peacetime Prime Minister this country has ever had without a doubt, it isn't even close.
My generation will suffer the consequences of their poorly thought out preferences.
The Crown brought me here
Como ela não foi convidada pra ser Rainha de Bateria depois dessa sambada na cara desse sujeito.
She was 62 here. Doesn't look it.
She aged very well throughout her tenure, but I would argue she dressed older than her age for quite some time. A classic look, but slightly mumsy.
Theresa May dressed appropriately for her age, but still had a modern/stylish twist
@@billydeeuk I think that favoured her though tidy,organised and with modern ideas but still in touch with the old fashioned world
I agree she looks 50 here instead of 62 I think it's because of her hair
@@billydeeuk from 1987 she wore stylish power dressing suits that were timeless - before that she was more frumpy
She had integrity - What do we have now???
Should I be a thatcherite ?
Yes:like
No :comment
What a babe she was
BY shares sold at 1 pound and now over 99
She was not on my side in honesty.... I kinda wish we had a leader on our side like her.
I think the actress in the Crown really nailed it. It is different, of course, but she captured something. I heard the voice and was like "meh", and then she kept talking for just a few seconds and it was there..! Good job
You cant be serious.
Why does the woman in ‘the crown’ exaggerates Thatcher’s voice so badly? It’s so weird
I just came here to check if Thatcher actually speaks like that but she speaks totally normal
Woooow habla igual que The Crown😯😯😯😯😯
No, la de La Corona habla demasiado despacio....
KKKKKKKKK I LOVE HOW SHE ALL BUT SPELLS WHAT THE TREATY IS ABOUT
O cara...kkkkk o cara é patético. Ela samba na cara dele explicando que o raio do tratado é sobre armas terrestres e por isso a manutenção de outros tipos de armas não seria transgressão. “Ah, mas não vai contra a essência do tratado?”
Ah tnc, a essência do tratado é só sobre o que ele disserta uai. Eu hein.
From the crown
I love Margaret Thatcher so much from am anthropological point of view. She's the greatest feminist of the 21st century. What a lady.
She was not a feminist and I think she’d be horrified at the suggestion that she was one.
Gillian indeed played her too uptightly
Did she not want to abolish the NHS?
Mrs. Anderson did really good job:)
Who’s the interviewer?
David Dimbleby
Quer que desenhe?
Major, not Minor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or maybe a Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
So good she should be made an honourary lad 👌🏿
When we get down to zero nukes, he says, what an idiot, so we have no nukes and then have another world war.
Adoro que o cara não dá nem boa noite. A educação ele esqueceu em casa.
She is my ideal woman
That's necrophilia mate
We want English subtitle.
thatcher is as iconic as the mini cooper s.
She killed the north, I remember the riots we had here in Newcastle over her
I don't need idiots in my life. Have something to say say it clearly. No chemist ever married Britney Spears.
She was a great prime minister
She sounds absolutely NOTHING like on the crown, I thought maybe she had something wrong, and I wanted to make sure she actually talked SLOOOOOOOOW and DRAAAAAAWWN out.. but she doesn't.. just sounds like an old british lady
Vine a ver como hablaba porque en la serie habla como si tuviera 100 años y le costara mucho hablar... y ella no hablaba asii... error de casting como los ojos de la reina que ya no son azules... 😵🤷♀️
Do you want Mr Jones to come back said squealer. I will read the secret papers, because I know you can't read, said squealer.
Here after Baga Chipz's snatch game
Margaret Thatcher: "To keep a war-free Europe, you need I believe to keep a nuclear deterrent."
How wrong she was. 😢
The amount of thatcher love here is making me feel lots of people forget she was best mates with Pinochet and Saville and knew what they both had done.
She had no idea about Jimmy Savile’s evil crimes at the time. All political leaders make mistakes: Corbyn was a big fan of autocrat Fidel Castro. Blair took Britain into Iraq: a far worse deed than anything Thatcher ever did.
£80 a week!! For pay
The interviewer is irritating
he continuously is interrupting her!
Thrived on power. Became almost pathetically and visibly less when it was taken away from her.
I disagree tbh my favourite periods of hers in terms of personality are actually 1975 - 1979 and 1992 - 1994