scottsdad Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Saw episode 1 on BBC 2. A 5 part documentary on her - a must watch. Brilliantly done. The interviewees are people who worked with her, for her and against her. Heseltine still seethes at her. Episode 1 (on iPlayer) covered the 1970s, from the "Milk Snatcher" days, to her winning the leadership, and winning the 1979 election. Trust me this is worth watching. Might not like her, or her politics, but this is well worth watching. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Sounds like it might be worth watching? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 1 hour ago, scottsdad said: Saw episode 1 on BBC 2. A 5 part documentary on her - a must watch. Brilliantly done. The interviewees are people who worked with her, for her and against her. Heseltine still seethes at her. Episode 1 (on iPlayer) covered the 1970s, from the "Milk Snatcher" days, to her winning the leadership, and winning the 1979 election. Trust me this is worth watching. Might not like her, or her politics, but this is well worth watching. Agree it was very good. Heseltine is such a snob. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 When I was a little kid she was PM and I didn't realise that anyone else could be prime minister. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonHMFC Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said: Sounds like it might be worth watching? I'm not sure, the OP seems to be on the fence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 When I was a little kid she was PM and I didn't realise that anyone else could be prime minister.TBF they couldn't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 She was a c**t of the highest order. I hope she is being permanently spit roasted in hell by Stalin and Michael Foot. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 She was a c**t of the highest order. I hope she is being permanently spit roasted in hell by Stalin and Michael Foot.No, she was exactly the right person to lead this country at exactly that point in time. Easily one of the greatest leaders of all time. -5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 11 hours ago, UsedToGoToCentralPark said: 20 hours ago, Arch Stanton said: She was a c**t of the highest order. I hope she is being permanently spit roasted in hell by Stalin and Michael Foot. No, she was exactly the right person to lead this country at exactly that point in time. Easily one of the greatest leaders of all time. I bet you were shouting that from the rooftops in Cowdenbeath at the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Shes ashes, and thats the way we like it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Part 2 on now. The production quality remains outstanding 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted May 29, 2019 Author Share Posted May 29, 2019 Getting rid of "the wets", brutally ending careers and not caring a bit. Compare and contract with Theresa May's "unity cabinet" comprising both remainers and leavers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden Cowboy Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 Bernard Ingham says on this that protestors had thrown things and that his ear was clipped by a free range potato that was thrown at him. I am not sure what a free range potato is but his ears obviously are highly attuned analytical instruments! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 On 23/05/2019 at 11:26, Mark Connolly said: Sounds like it might be worth watching? A bit like several members of her cabinet in the 1980's by all accounts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 On 24/05/2019 at 08:00, UsedToGoToCentralPark said: On 23/05/2019 at 22:41, Arch Stanton said: She was a c**t of the highest order. I hope she is being permanently spit roasted in hell by Stalin and Michael Foot. No, she was exactly the right person to lead this country at exactly that point in time. Easily one of the greatest leaders of all time. Aye, she done a lot for your area and the coal mines and shipyards in Fife right enough eh? I personally hope she is being sodomised by a horse whilst on fire down in hell from now till eternity. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 Just passed the 1987 election and the rot is creeping in. Michael Dobbs was excellent in this episode ("she wouldn't have acted this way five years previously..."). And Tebbit - I always thought that he was her number 2 right until the bitter end, but nope. She was starting to see enemies everywhere. The "enemies" episode was compelling, too. Kinnock once again right on the money about miners. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Can't stand the woman but this has been a thoroughly fascinating series about her time in power. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 A dildo in Thatcher’s dead arse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapelhall chap Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 (edited) have just watched 1 and 2 and her voice annoyed the good lady so I put it on subtitles. It is quite instructive to look back at it having experienced it in my 30s. It does show how the post war Butskillism and consensus politics was wiped out by her branch of free market ideologies. The one bit that kind of took me aback was her demanding to know the names of the people in the streets ( To the Aussie TV guy) who thought she was pig headed! Norman Tebbit still looks like the Spitting image icon. I have both of her "autobiographies" in the house and might revisit them when I see the rest. It is well produced but a minority viewing audience. Edited June 15, 2019 by Chapelhall chap 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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