Amazingly relevant. Our ‘moral leaders’ don’t seem to question much. The consequences are devastating as has been noted.
Beleagured Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher makes pun during the 1981 Conservative Party conference speech: “the lady’s not for turning” she says to her critics in her Cabinet and in the country, Brighton; 10 Oct 80
Margaret Thatcher defends the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War interviewed by David Frost on TVAM. There was controversy because it was revealed the belgrano was apparently sailing away from the UK imposed ‘exclusion zone’ around the Falkland Islands when sunk
An overview of 1970’s Britain and the radical proposals put forth by Margaret Thatcher that secured her Conservative party a pivotal election victory in 1979. The large financial rebate she secured for Britain from the European Union, one of the earlier achievements of her premiership, is also discussed.
Margaret Thatcher does a spot of spring cleaning and sweeps away socialism in this early rallying speech from the Conservative Party Conference of 1975. Four years later, Thatcher would become Prime Minister and this speech bodly outlines the kind of values upheld by her government and exemplifies her commitment to the free market, a property-owning democracy and the rights of the individual.
maggie delivers another hand bagging to the house of commons
The events that lead to the end of one of the most remarkable and revolutionary premierships in British political history. The truth about how it was not the people, but her own party, that finally ended Margaret Thatcher’s 11 years in office. “We are all – like it or not, rebel or not – the children of Margaret Thatcher.”