The Thatcher Foundation website had just made available a series of videos featuring the great lady. To view them click on the following links...No No No (Rome Summit statement)
I'm enjoying this (No confidence motion, last Commons setpiece speech as PM)
Eulogy to President Reagan
Press Conference with President Bush at Aspen, 2 August 1990
I do hope Alex Hilton will be linking to them on Recess Monkey...
I do hope Alex Hilton will be too ashamed to continue as a blogger after his revolting little joke last week, and his cowardly failure to appear on 18 DS, after agreeing to do so, to answer his critics.
ReplyDeletePeople forget how much the unions terrorised the public and stifled progress before Thatcher and how much economic damage was done in keeping lame-duck nationalised industries going. Labour wasn't working then, and it certainly isn't now.
I just watched the whole of the "enjoying this" speech and was almost in tears (I am a woman). She was a giant in a field of pygmies. It was quite something watching the SNP guy pay that backhanded compliment to her as a political heavweight.
ReplyDeleteWhat a truly great woman she is, what an outstanding PM she was.
Watching "enjoying this "has made my week. My daughter and I have just watched it together, I have a picture of Me and MT as my screen saver so it was amazing to to let her see why this amazing woman is mummy's hero!!
ReplyDeleteHer dignity and fighting spirit is an inspiration to us all. particularly those of us going through selection at the momment!!
Thanks for highlighting this Iain.
Neither Alex Hilton nor anyone else will be able to link unless the damn thing works - which it doesn't at the moment
ReplyDeleteHow ironic that you link "no, no, no" on here - the epitome of stupidity, which unseated Howe, and ultimately herself.
ReplyDeleteWatch as she breaks the teams bats before they go out to the crease...
I'd love to see the 'Lady's Not for Turning' speech uploaded. That was the one which gave me a tingle down my spine, when I knew this was a lady who would stand by her principles (plus also the 'Democracy will prevail' speech after the Brighton Bomb, God she marvelous then too).
ReplyDeleteAH should be sent to a Desert Island with a TV, and only DVD's of Maggies greatest speeches to listen to.
ReplyDeleteShall give them a watch. Our local newspaper is still covering the statue story, I'm hoping that MP Hepburn will answer my letter shouting off about his EDM by responding in the Gazzete column, but I doubt he will, somehow.
ReplyDeleteIain, what a public service. Hugely enjoyable. An archive forever.
ReplyDeleteAnon, 8.22 - yes. This is so far beyond the capacities of the three current party leaders it makes one weep.
Yes, wonderful to see again - especially her mastery of the despatch box at the vote of no confidence. I wonder how many of the Tory back benchers were rueing their earlier decision when she stood up and batted it all back. It was interesting to see the faces of the front bench. John Major looked particularly smug.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff Iain I recwently posted my own eulopgy to the great woman having just read her memoires.
ReplyDeleteYou poos sod having to wade through Blunkett , hers are fabulous
Oh to have a political party leader with the same stature as Margaret Thatcher in these desperate times. Cameron? - history will put him in the same bracket with Chamberlain, if at all.
ReplyDeletePlease don't show stuff like this - it makes us realise how far the political discourse in this country has fallen in the last 17 years.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine DC ever using phrases such as 'Britain's destiny' and such a firm defence of rising income.
Outstanding stuff from MT and I am no Tory!
I remember that last speech, what an occasion. Maggie wiped the floor with Kinnockio!
ReplyDeleteI particularly enjoyed seeing how, in the I'm Enjoying this speech, Kinnock kept squirming on the benches every time Maggie mentioned the fall of socialism and the libertaion of those behind the iron curtain. Blair wasn't daft ditching Clause 4 and the S word, he knew what a liability these were, especially in the brilliant hands of someone like Maggie.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Iain, an outstanding display of reason, common sense and principle.
ReplyDeleteLoved the "...and his ladies" jibe about Kinnock, CND and Greenham Common - the most moonbat irrational response that sections still have. "Oh, give up Trident then those nasty people will be nice to us...". yeh right.
CND? It should have been CUD - Campaign for UNclear Disarmament.
i didnt agree with all her policies but she was indeed a giant. i think no matter what your political view you do realise the woman had something and even you don't like her you can't help but admire her.
ReplyDeleteit always seems to be those conviction politicans, left or right, who people admire most even if they are the most decisive. just watch thatcher and dennis skinner (another i don't like but admire) batting it out to see how poor our politics is today.
"I do hope Alex Hilton will be too ashamed to continue as a blogger after his revolting little joke last week"
ReplyDeleteGod get over yourself or at least develop a sense of humour.
Hey Iain, I can't find video of any of her speeches or appearances promoting the Single European Act. Any chance you could get your mates at the Maggie Foundation to dig them up?
ReplyDeleteAlex Hilton