Maggie: 30 years ago today...

[toxic avenger]

It was on this day 30 years ago, May 4th 1979, that Margaret Thatcher became British Prime Minister. Thus began the destruction of heavy industry, the culture of low-pay service McJobs, and the cult of laissez-faire deregulation that led directly, after spreading across the English-speaking world, to the sh1tstorm we are experiencing now. She was right about some things too, some Unions were behaving like thugs and needed to be faced down. But it went too far.

Andrew Marr on that time:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzcfmlaPHg&feature=PlayList&p=6B7F8B5A4FC AFDFE&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=21"]YouTube - Margaret Thatcher's Election Victory (1979)[/ame]

Getting destroyed by a housewife on the Belgrano:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWOy23MLY1I"]YouTube - FLASHBACK: Margaret Thatcher owned by a Housewife[/ame]

Maggie on the Brighton bombing:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQdK7A8IQPw"]YouTube - Margaret Thatcher and Cabinet Ministers recall Brighton Hotel Bombing[/ame]

No, No, No!:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTYDxyvBXBI"]YouTube - Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons No No No![/ame]

The speech that finished her:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1C2hieHKgA"]YouTube - Sir Geoffrey Howe vs. Margaret Thatcher[/ame]

AND, Derek and Clive (Pete and Dud) have some sick thoughts... (definitely NSFW)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyN76YugQyc"]YouTube - Derek & Clive - Politics[/ame]

[Cashel Hill]

BBC Parliament is showing the coverage of that particular 1979 election night all day tomorrow. A significant day in British political history.

[toxic avenger]

Thanks for that, I might dip in to it tomorrow when I'm home.

Here's the BBC opening titles (very late 70s!) and opening analysis on the Beeb that night:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKfRi6kKkc]YouTube - Decision '79 theme and opening[/ame]

[Frankie Lee]

Did she die yet?

[Cashel Hill]

The main coverage starts from 9 in the morning I think, the afternoon coverage is related to the following morning and day's events.

[alexo]

If it wasn't for the falklands the history of england could have been so different.

[toxic avenger]

Did she die yet?

No, her daughter has said that she suffers from some kind of dementia, she often forgets that Denis died.
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Thatcher dementia fight revealed

[Frankie Lee]

No, her daughter has said that she suffers from some kind of dementia, she often forgets that Denis died.
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Thatcher dementia fight revealed

Good, she deserves to suffer.

[toxic avenger]

Good, she deserves to suffer.

I think we had a thread where this was argued over all day once, let's not go there again.

[marmurr1916]

There was a very good series of programmes about Thatcher and Thatcherism on BBC4 fairly recently, 'The Thatcher Years'.

It's a pity that she's not able to be confronted about the legacy of her policies.