Mrs Thatcher goes West
Margaret Thatcher's as prime minister, in the autumn of 1990, have often seemed to me like the stuff of the best political television drama.
Finally, the story of Britain's longest-serving prime minister's by cabinet colleagues amid plots and counter-plots, stalking horses and has made the small screen in the shape of "Margaret".
Hot on the heels of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s dramatisation of Mrs Thatcher's early years as MP for Finchley and a fine online collection of Thatcher-related material from the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s archives, several bloggers have been over the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s for Mrs Thatcher.
Panorama itself, of course, has long been fascinated with the former Member for Finchley. September 1975 saw David Dimbleby follow on her first tour of the United States since she was elected leader of the Conservative party. You can watch an abridged version here:
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The film showed for perhaps the first time on television Mrs Thatcher's new statement of Conservative philosophy in such detail - allowing the tallest poppies in society to grow taller as she put it, cutting government expenditure and incentivising the poor to work harder.
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This was a philosophy from which she was never really to waver throughout her time in office - the 30th anniversary of which falls later this year. Ultimately, a philosophy which was to shape the modern face of Britain.
Comment number 1.
At 3rd Mar 2009, john Slade wrote:THE THATCHER YEARS WHATS WONDERFUL ABOUT THEM.THIS WAS WHEN THE ROT SET IN,A FREE MARKET OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF LETS DO WHAT WE LIKE.A NHS SERVICE IN FREE MARKET WHICH TOTALY DEMORALIZED ITS FRONT LINE MEDICAL WORKERS,OPENED THE FINANCIAL MARKETS TO RISK INVESTMENT WITH OUT REGULATION.IN CONSIDERATION OF HER POETICAL WORDS INTO POWER DID NOT QUITE MOULD WITH WHAT WAS TO COME RIOTS OVER POLL TAX,COAL MINERS ONLY TO MENTION THE FEW.SO I AM SURE WE CAN THANK HER FOR NOTHING.
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